When restaurateur Steve Palmer overheard one of his servers say she’d like to buy a home if only she had the down payment, he started a company-wide home loan program. “We loan our employees their down-payment interest-free,” said Palmer of Charleston, South Carolina, who has…

A University of Mississippi graduate’s resume not only resulted in Brown & Riding (B&R) Insurance hiring the applicant but also sparked the company’s interest in the university. Learning about the RMI program and its caliber of students, B&R has been inspired to make a major…

A recent major gift from University of Mississippi Professor Emeritus Will St. Amand establishes an award designed to identify and provide support for higher education instruction in introductory-level biology. Additionally, the Georgia St. Amand Laboratory Teaching Assistant Award in Biology Endowment pays tribute to the…