Browsing: Education

The 12th annual Oxford Blues Festival will kick off three days of blues music with a free-to-the-public event at the University of Mississippi Blues Archive.

Theresa Bush, assistant professor of costume design at The University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) Theatre program, housed in the School of Performing and Visual Arts, serves as associate designer for “A Wonderful World,” a new Broadway musical about the life and loves of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, beginning its pre-Broadway performances this week in New Orleans.

Mississippi State is honoring World War II veterans, including a number of former students who gave all they had to defend freedom around the world in the early 1940s.

Attention, all brainiacs and teachers of brainiacs: Time is short for those who intend to compete in the Ole Miss Brain Brawl on November 11, 2023. 

The Laurel School District is leading the charge in bringing together all the students and faculty in the district as well as the community to celebrate National Heritage Month in a fabulous fashion.

The University of Mississippi Department of Theatre and Film kicks off its fall production season this weekend with the romantic comedy “The Liar.”

The School of Nursing at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is expanding its Oxford offerings to include a traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing program next year.

The University of Southern Mississippi (USM)’s School of Coastal Resilience has been featured in the 2023 Sustainable Campus Index. The publication featured the new sustainable majors offered in the School of Coastal Resilience Sustainability Studies and Sustainability Sciences (Coastal System Dynamics).

Moss Point native Christian Horn Reese is returning home for a pair of appearances in conjunction with the release of…

Five acclaimed musicians whose songs have been recorded by some of music’s most popular performers will headline a Sept. 28 Singer-Songwriter Showcase at The Lyric in Oxford.

A scholarship established by a University of Mississippi alumna and her family is helping ease the burden for pharmacy students from rural areas while also strengthening health care options for rural Mississippians.

The Eugene B. Polk Pharmacy Scholarship, created by Gary and Susan Cantrell, already has helped its first recipient, Simpson County native Stephen Rayborn, through the professional program at the School of Pharmacy.

Belhaven University is one of the eight Christian colleges in the state of Mississippi. Located in the heart of Mississippi’s capital, Jackson, Belhaven offers a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate programs to ambitious students who seek to broaden their education as well as their discovering their God-given calling in this world. 

Preston Stringer, a University of Southern Mississippi (USM) strategic communication major with a public relations emphasis, gained valuable experience and insight into the professional world through his National Millennial and GenZ (NMGZ) field trip to Washington, D.C. this year.

If you look at the US nuclear test map below, you will note something that may be news to you!  Almost 60 years ago, Hattiesburg was “the bomb” – at least we were a nuclear bomb testing site. 

The University of Mississippi’s Pride of the South band is marching with renewed enthusiasm on its new $5.4 million practice field — a replica of Hollingsworth Field, the playing surface at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

Just how hot was it in Pascagoula last week? 
According to Barbara Colville’s kindergarten class at Resurrection Catholic Elementary School (RCES), it was hot enough to melt crayons and cook an egg outside.