Southern Experience

Ferguson: A Life Lesson from a Former Sailor

A former sailor reflects on Navy service, world travel, heartbreak, discipline, and learning to see every person’s God-given value.
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Oxford Teen Jewelry Entrepreneur Balances Work and Studies

17-year-old Oxford native, Sara Caroline Bridgers has a jewelry line, Jewels by Sarcar, that is now represented in almost all 50 states. Last week...

Vassallo: Ole Miss – The Attraction

Have you ever stopped to consider why so many people are interested in enrolling here? Observing the countless orientation families this summer arriving in Oxford...

Music and Movies in the Park Brings Oxford Residents Together

Amidst lighting bugs and Mississippi heat, Oxford offers a family friendly experience every Friday night this summer. Music and Movies in the Park have taken...

Ole Miss Student Named First Runner-Up to Miss Mississippi

Eleven University of Mississippi students were among the 44 contestants vying for this year’s Miss Mississippi crown. One of those women, Anne Elizabeth Buys, competing as...

Civil Engineering Graduates Land Jobs at Whiting-Turner

Two University of Mississippi civil engineering graduates are headed to Florida this fall to begin their careers in the engineering world. Tyler Markle of Memphis,...

UM Engineering Partnership Producing Problem-Solving Research

Engineers at the University of Mississippi are at the forefront of a research collaboration that is helping solve infrastructure problems near and far. UM scientists...

Jenifer Gifford Joins Geological Engineering

Jenifer Gifford knows a gem when she finds one. So when she learned of an open faculty position in the University of Mississippi’s Department of...

UM MacArthur Justice Center Helps End Jackson’s ‘Debtors’ Prison’

The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law and a Washington-based civil rights group have negotiated a...

Ole Miss Student Named First Runner-Up to Miss Mississippi

Eleven University of Mississippi students were among the 44 contestants vying for this year’s Miss Mississippi crown. One of those women, Anne Elizabeth Buys, competing as...

John Cofield’s Oxford & Ole Miss: The Burial of William Faulkner

  At 2:00 p.m. the businesses of the Oxford, Mississippi Courthouse Square locked their doors. The hearse carrying William Faulkner pulled out of Rowan Oak, went...
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