Southern Experience

Heaton: 10 Essential Tips for Moving to the South

Embrace Southern hospitality with these essential tips on traditions, food, and customs to help you settle into your new home.

UM Hosts World Health Organization Working Group

A working group constituted by the World Health Organization’s Traditional and Complementary Medicines Program gathered recently at the University of Mississippi to develop another...

Native American Artifacts on Display at UM

Artifacts dating back to the 1400s offer a glimpse into the life of Native Americans in Mississippi through multiple exhibits over the next month...

Together, We Stood

I’ve never been in the military or law enforcement, so I can’t say that I fully understand the strong bonds that I’m told exist...

PY4 Student Delivers Medical Care to Peru

In late June of 2016, PY4 student Caroline Bobinger traveled to Peru with ten people, including four other PY4 students from the School of Pharmacy...

Cofield on Oxford & Ole Miss: Isaiah’s Busy Bee Café

Born in Oxford, Georgia Isaiah spent thirty years cooking for Ole Miss Chancellors J. D. Williams and Porter Fortune. When she finally retired, she still...

Dunagin: Trump Pays Back to Evangelicals

Only God knows Donald Trump’s spiritual relationship with the Almighty, but much of his rhetoric goes against the grain of New Testament theology as...

Home Place Pastures to Become First Slaughter, Processing Plant in Mississippi

Pork, beef and other meat are commodities that people consume every day. However, it’s a process to actually get the meat to the table....

Vassallo: Ida B. Wells-Barnett – a Mississippi Legend Lost in Time

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist and someone who risked her life multiple times for what she strongly believed. Ida...

Hughes: What I Learned from Listening to 1,500 MS Public School Teachers and Parents

The Summer Education Forum in Jackson this weekend was an amazing success! It offered a political-free zone to public school educators, administrators and concerned parents....

Sidna Brower Mitchell: Summertime Memories in a Small Town

There were 22 of us first cousins on my mother's side, almost all of them living on farms in Mississippi when I was growing...