Bill Dabney

These days, women make up about half of the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry's student body. But it wasn't so long ago that there were only a few female students per class, recalls Dr. Karen Crews, professor of oral oncology and behavioral medicine in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences. As a student…

In commemoration of its 60th anniversary, the Mississippi Manufacturers Association (MMA) has contributed $60,000 to build a scholarship endowment at the University of Mississippi, assisting students enrolled in UM’s Center for Manufacturing Excellence (CME) – the only program of its kind in the nation. The new 47,000-square-foot CME was created by the university and the…

  When the fall semester is underway each year at the University of Mississippi, there are vivid reminders of the life of Joey Embry of Bruce: the football program he loved and now students who have received assistance from the scholarship created in his memory.   Established in August 2000, the Joey Embry Memorial Scholarship…

The Jim and Sarah Ainsworth Leadership Award Fund has been created to provide scholarship assistance to deserving students in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Funded by the Baptist Memorial Healthcare Foundation, recipients of the scholarship must be in the third or fourth year of the professional pharmacy program and have demonstrated leadership throughout…

When Ross Sanderson was around five years old, his dad, Albert Sanderson, introduced him to the University of Mississippi on a fall Saturday afternoon, and the youngster received a football from Ole Miss cheerleaders. In the future, selected UM pharmacy students will receive scholarship support from a fund named in tribute to Ross Sanderson’s life.…

(OXFORD, Miss.) – The generous support of alumni and friends is making a dramatic impact on the University of Mississippi’s mission to engage minds, transform lives and serve others as a premier American public university. A second consecutive year of record freshman class enrollment and University-wide enrollment (more than 20,800) provides solid evidence of what…

(OXFORD, Miss.) – The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is one of 13 pharmacy schools across the nation selected to receive funding from the new $1.1 million Cardinal Health Pharmacy Scholarship Program. Universities selected to participate in Cardinal Health’s scholarship program offer strong nuclear, independent or hospital pharmacy curricula. Each school received an endowed…