News from the College Of Liberal Arts

Oxford Mural on The Square. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

College of Liberal Arts students Sophia Fosdick, left, Cayla Hari and Weston Liefer chat at the Phi Mu fountain in the Quad. Photo by Kevin Bain/University Communications Photography.

Images around the Oxford Square and Oxford for admissions post card. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

Campus Scenes; Ventress Hall framed by flower blooms in the Circle. Photo by Logan Kirkland/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

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Mary Holland will be studying Russian in Nizhyn Novgorod, Russia’s fifth-largest city. Submitted photo

Six UM Students Awarded Prestigious Language Scholarships

May 23, 2017

Prestigious honors allows undergrads to study abroad, prepare for international careers MAY 23, 2017 BY EDWIN SMITH Six University of Mississippi undergraduate students have won prestigious national...

The Gertrude C. Ford Foundation completed its $20 million commitment Tuesday to funding the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Mississippi with the presentation of a check for $1 million. Photo by Jay Ferchaud/UMMC

Foundation Completes $20 Million Pledge for Ford Center

May 19, 2017

Performing arts facility has transformed cultural environment of the university and region MAY 19, 2017 BY MICHAEL NEWSOM The Gertrude C. Ford Foundation completed its $20 million commitment to...

Doctoral Alumna Uses Math for Public Good

May 19, 2017

In 2014, Carla Cotwright-Williams (PhD mathematics ’06) worked as the technical lead on a million-dollar federal contract to assess data quality in a Department of Homeland Security data system...

UM, Georgia Music Professors Team Up for Teaching, Performance

May 17, 2017

Joint saxophone event funded by SEC travel grant APRIL 27, 2017 BY BIANCA ABNEY The University of Mississippi saxophone studio traveled to the University of Georgia last month for a joint event that...

Jeff Jackson (left) and Chuck Ross (right) posing with the statue of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner while in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the “Universities and Slavery: Bound by History” conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Photo by Jeffrey Jackson, March 2017.

Edge Effects Magazine: A Conversation with Jeffrey Jackson and Charles Ross on Ole Miss and the Shadow of Slavery

May 17, 2017

BY BRIAN HAMILTON MAY 17, 2017 In the last fifteen years, slavery has gone to college. Or, rather, colleges and universities have taken themselves back to school. Initiatives at several of the...