OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi graduate student Jessica Fancher Peralta doesn’t begin her first year of teaching until this fall, but she has already landed a sizable bonus. The Mooreville native is the first Mississippian to receive a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowship worth $175,000. Read more →
Crossposted from the SBA’s Open for Business blog. This week, America’s celebrates the difference-makers in our economy as we kickoff National Small Business Weektoday at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Read more →
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s degree program in forensic chemistry has been named one of the nation’s finest by ForensicsColleges.com. Read more →
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. John Hall, a professor and administrator at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been named the Southeastern Conference’s 2014 Professor of the Year in recognition of his excellence both in the classroom and as a topflight obesity and cardiovascular researcher. Read more →
OXFORD, Miss. and IRVINE, Calif. – A collaboration formed by the University of Mississippi’s Division of Technology Management, the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Natural Products Utilization Research Unit and natural products company ChromaDex Corp. has won a national award for excellence in technology transfer. Read more →
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi hosts the “Conscious Thought and Thought About Consciousness” conference April 27-30, bringing “world-class” philosophers and cognitive scientists to campus. Read more →
OXFORD, Miss. – If the 13th annual International Conference on the Science of Botanicals is as successfully staged as the previous 12, it will be due, in large measure, to the efforts of Jennifer S. Taylor, program coordinator in the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Read more →
OXFORD, Miss. – The Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals, the premier annual event for discussing medicinal plants and dietary supplements, is taking a new twist this year to mark the 20th anniversary of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, or DSHEA, of 1994. Read more →
Every April when the trees display their brightest greens and good moods rise with the temperature, an arts festival comes to Oxford. This year's Double Decker Arts Festival will be held April 25-26th around the Courthouse Square, at the heart of Oxford. The annual celebration brings the community together and attracts visitors from all over the state and country. Read more →
