Graduate Student News

AUGUST 14, 2017 Alumna Molly McCully Brown (MFA English ’17), the former John And Renée Grisham Fellow in Poetry, on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues and one of public radio’s most popular programs. Each week, nearly 5...

Justin Rogers is studying Presbyterian missions to Native Americans in Mid-South JUNE 27, 2017 BY EDWIN SMITH A doctoral student in history at the University of Mississippi is among two graduate students nationally studying at a prestigious institute this summer in Washington, D.C. Justin I. Rogers...

Regional literary festival tour features 17 poets, highlights the black experience in the South OCTOBER 11, 2016 BY EDWIN SMITH Continuing an ongoing dialogue about race, a regional literary festival featuring 17 up-and-coming African-American writers will visit the University of Mississippi and...

Participants to spend two weeks studying under veteran authors at University of the South JUNE 18, 2016 | BY CHRISTINA STEUBE Two University of Mississippi graduate students have been selected to participate in the 27th session of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference this summer in Tennessee. Molly...

April 11, 2016 Hector Okada da Silva—recognized for giving the best student talk at the Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting organized by the American Physical Society last February—works with Emanuele Berti, associate professor of physics and astronomy, on research “to test general relativity’s...