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Hotty Toddy News Services - February 19, 2025

Inaugural Pride Parade Draws a Large Crowd in Oxford

On Saturday, May 7, the inaugural LGBTQ+ Pride Parade went around the Courthourse Square amid applause and cheers from a large crowd of people...

UM Students Win 12 First-Place Awards at SPJ Conference

University of Mississippi students won 22 awards at the recent Society of Professional Journalists Region 12 Mark of Excellence contest in New Orleans. The Daily Mississippian won...

Accountancy Professor, Violence Prevention Officer Win Frist Awards

Each day, University of Mississippi students are affected by the words and actions of faculty and staff members who extend their work beyond classrooms,...

UM Professor Hopes To Revolutionize Alloy Development

Discovering, developing and commercializing alloys and other advanced materials can take up to 20 years, but a University of Mississippi mechanical engineering professor hopes to speed...

DeSoto Campus Students Honored with Taylor Medals

Two seniors at the University of Mississippi at DeSoto Center-Southaven have been awarded the Marcus Taylor Memorial Medal. Yasmin Ali and Lauren Carson, both...

Kids in the Capitol Program Gives Fifth-Graders a Look at Government

Dozens of middle school students have gotten a close-up look at their state government in action this spring, thanks to the Kids in the...

Lafayette County Students Receive Highest Academic Award at Ole Miss

Four Lafayette county students are among 76 University of Mississippi students to receive a 2016 Marcus Elvis Taylor Memorial Medal, the university's highest academic...

UM Offers New Minor in Digital Media Studies

The University of Mississippi will offer a new interdisciplinary minor in digital studies designed to equip undergraduate students from many different degree majors with digital...

K-Rappers: Oxford Twins Introduce Books by Rapping

Oxford residents, Margaret and Katherine King, redefine notions of the typical Southern lady. Sure, they are warm, well-dressed and have radiant smiles. They laugh at...

Oxford’s Past and Present as Told by Locals

Where does the center of Oxford lie today? As restaurants and shopping options grow on Jackson Avenue and forest land vanishes around the under-construction hospital,...