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Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ Star Who Filmed in Mississippi, Dies at 86

Patrick Stewart, known for Star Trek and X-Men, died at 86. His Mississippi connections included filming Logan and narrating a Delta State planetarium show.
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Gulf Coast Residents Brace for Hurricane Nate

The Mississippi Gulf Coast is under a hurricane warning, as Hurricane Nate speeds along with sustained winds of 90 m.p.h. Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are...

Social Work Presentation Kicks Off LGBTQ History Month

Social workers have a duty to help clients from diverse backgrounds, and the best practitioners understand their clients' cultural histories and social context, a...

Campus Police Detective Completes FBI National Academy

University of Mississippi Police Det. Lt. Jeremy Cook was among some of law enforcement's "best and brightest" in the world who graduated recently from...

Living Music Resource Teams with Sarah Isom Center for Sarahfest

The third annual Sarahfest, billed as a multidisciplinary "artistic journey" hosted by the University of Mississippi's Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and Living Music...

Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Shed Light on Dark Matter

A global team of scientists, including two University of Mississippi physicists, has found that the same instruments used in the historic discovery of gravitational...

UM Graduates Land Rewarding Careers with U.S. Probation Office

Emma Burleson, a 2017 graduate of the master's program in criminal justice at the University of Mississippi, spends her days protecting the community by supervising people...

UM Students Win Top Award from Southern Public Relations Federation

A campaign created by students in the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi has won a top award...

UM Students Help Special Olympics Athletes

Students from the University of Mississippi Department of Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management helped 310 athletes from area schools, North Mississippi Regional Center and the...

CELI, Local Groups Help Little Free Library Program Grow

The Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library has teamed up with the University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction and the LOU Reads Coalition to install six new...

Allyson Best Named UM Director of Technology Management

Allyson M. Best has been hired as director of technology management in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Mississippi. Best's...
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