Southern Experience

Double Decker 2025: A Celebration of Music, Art, and Community in the Heart of Oxford

Oxford’s Double Decker Festival brings two days of live music, art vendors, Southern food, and family fun to the Square.

Mitchell: Reforms Enacted; ‘Meaningful’ Yet to Be Determined

Let’s approach this with a timeline: December 2013 — A task force completes its report on wide-ranging changes designed to rein in the double-digit percentage...

UM Researchers Evaluate if ‘Breast is Best’ in the Delta

The University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies has been invited to partner with various organizations to plan, research and evaluate a program using breastfeeding...

UM Reaches Gold as a Heart Association Fit-Friendly Worksite

The University of Mississippi has been recognized as a Gold Fit-Friendly Worksite by the American Heart Association, which commended the university’s efforts to make its...

NHM Professor Jim Taylor Heads to Washington D.C. as Government Affairs Liason

University of Mississippi’s Jim Taylor will represent the Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant Association as the Government Affairs Liaison at the Political Affairs Conference April...

Pharmacy Administration Student Wins ‘Three Minute Thesis’ Challenge

A University of Mississippi student’s “Three Minute Thesis” was the audience favorite at the recent Conference of Southern Graduate Schools annual meeting. Sujith Ramachandran, a...

Memphis’ Saint Agnes Academy President to Join Ole Miss

After 21 years, Barbara Daush, President of St. Academy-St. Dominic School, has announced she will leave the school in June 2016 after the completion...

Teaching Program Fellows Study Education Policy in Nation’s Capital

Fifteen University of Mississippi sophomores from the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program spent spring break in Washington, D.C., getting a close-up view of how...

Vassallo: There Is No “Too Much Heaven”

I woke up Monday morning listening to a classic song, "Too Much Heaven," which was a No. 1 hit for the Bee Gees some 36...

Heaton: 8 Southern Ways to Heckle in SEC Baseball

For the record, I have never condoned heckling in baseball. It just doesn’t seem civilized. But then again, have you even seen a clip...

Journalist Bill Rose’s Favorite Memories of Shelby, Mississippi

No matter where life takes you over the years and what it allows you to do, for most people there’s just something special about...