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As a professor of biology at UM from 1976 to 2005, Edmund Keiser loved the traditional classroom setting—with its blackboards, books and attentive students at their desks—as much as he enjoyed his field research, trudging through bayous and hiking verdant forests in search of unique specimens of–

Thanks to a $200,000 gift from a National Humanities Medal winner, the names of two visionaries in the study, teaching and preservation of American history grace a new University of Mississippi lecture series. With an extraordinary record of supporting the humanities, New York philanthropist and–

The Lott Leadership Institute at the University of Mississippi is honoring the outgoing chair of the university’s Department of Public Policy Leadership with a scholarship fund in his name. The Robert J. Haws Scholarship Endowment honors Haws, founding director of the public policy leadership–

Anne and John Frame of Brentwood, Tenn., first became devoted to each other and to the University of Mississippi as college students more than five decades ago. Those affections have remained steadfast, and the couple recently committed $1 million to fund scholarships for deserving students to–

The Lott Leadership Institute at the University of Mississippi has honored the outgoing chair of the university’s Department of Public Policy Leadership by establishing a scholarship fund in his name. The announcement of the Robert J. Haws Scholarship Endowment came Tuesday (April 26) at a reception–

Alon Bee of Jackson believes that the future of the University of Mississippi lies in recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty members who provide exceptional academic instruction. For this reason, he and his children, Paige and Blake Bee, have created an endowment to benefit the College of–