Sam S.Y. Wang, an educator, prominent hydroscience and engineering researcher, and administrator whose work has brought international attention to the University of Mississippi for more than four decades, and his wife, Jine, have contributed $100,000 to create an endowment encouraging other university professionals in their work. Sam S.Y. Wang is the founding director of UM’s [...] [...]
Robbie Ethridge, a University of Mississippi professor of anthropology, has received the prestigious Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society. The society honored Ethridge for her book “From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Ethridge’s areas of expertise are historical anthropology [...] [...]
John O’Haver is the recipient of the 2012 Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Mississippi. It was the second major award in a week for O’Haver, who was also named as one of the first 12 winners of the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Awards. A member of the UM faculty since [...] [...]
Three University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy alumni were recently honored for their outstanding careers and contributions to the school. Recipients of the school’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards are Kristie Gholson of Tupelo, William B. Harlan of Brandon and Richard Allen Jackson Sr. of Sarasota, Fla. Gholson is assistant director of pharmacy at North Mississippi [...] [...]
An associate dean at the University of Mississippi has been named dean of the University of Missouri’s School of Law. The Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune reports Gary Myers will begin his new job Aug. 15. He replaces Larry Dessem, who is returning to teaching. Myers graduated with honors from Duke University School of Law. He [...] [...]
Larry Franck, a retired partner of Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC, is a recent inductee into the University of Mississippi Law Alumni Hall of Fame. Franck is a member of the third Hall of Fame class, sponsored by the Law Alumni Chapter of the University of Mississippi Alumni Association. Franck served on the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 11,2012
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HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi is starting construction on a new home for its College of Business. >> Donor: $5 million gif to USM business college an investment — not a payback >> USM’s College of Business growing its expectations >> USM FUNDRAISING FOR COLLEGE OF BUSINESS REACHES A MILESTONE — Gift from [...] [...]
Dr. Frances A. Karnes, distinguished university professor in the department of curriculum, instruction and special education at the University of Southern Mississippi and director of the Frances Karnes Center for Gifted Studies, Dr. Kristen Stephens, assistant professor at Duke University, and John Dudley, a doctoral student in political science at the University of Mississippi, have [...] [...]
Brian Harvey has been named Oxford schools superintendent by the school board. The Oxford Eagle reports the 40-year-old Harvey has served as the interim superintendent after Kim Stasny, the previous superintendent, died in May of last year. Harvey and his wife, Elizabeth, a math teacher at Northwest Mississippi Community College, have three children in the [...] [...]
Dr. V. Al Lucas II has joined the team at the Eye & Laser Center of Starkville. Lucas is a therapeutic certified optometrist who provides vision examinations, corrective spectacles and contact lenses and therapeutic eye care for various ocular conditions. A native of Newton, Lucas graduated from East Central Community College and attended the University [...] [...]
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