Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The university began as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (or Mississippi A&M ), one of the national land-grant colleges established after Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862. It was created by the Mississippi Legislature on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in "agriculture ...
William Carey University. / 31.3062; -89.29116. William Carey University ( Carey, William Carey, or WCU) is a private Christian university in Mississippi, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Mississippi Baptist Convention. The main campus is in Hattiesburg and a second campus is in the Tradition community north of Biloxi .
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [1] was a violent disturbance that occurred at the University of Mississippi —commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as Segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American man James Meredith.
Daniel Jones (chancellor) Daniel Wayne Jones (born March 19, 1949) served as the 16th chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He was appointed June 15, 2009, [1] after Robert Khayat announced his retirement from the post on January 6, 2009. Jones was formerly the vice chancellor for health affairs, the dean of the school of medicine and ...
On May 2, 2024, a confrontation between pro-Palestinian protesters and University of Mississippi students took place at the university's campus in Oxford, Mississippi. [1] Videos of the confrontation were captured by bystanders, including an incident of a student imitating a monkey in front of a black graduate student.
Robert Clayton Robbins (born November 20, 1957), known professionally as Robert C. Robbins or R.C. Robbins, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and the 22nd and current president of The University of Arizona. In the spring of 2023, the Faculty Senate at the University of Arizona gave R.C. Robbins a vote of “no confidence” due, in part, to ...
University of Mississippi. Arthur Clifton Guyton (September 8, 1919 – April 3, 2003) was an American physiologist . Guyton is well known for his Textbook of Medical Physiology, which quickly became the standard text on the subject in medical schools. The first edition was published in 1956, the 10th edition in 2000 (the last before Guyton's ...
University, Mississippi. Categories: Public universities and colleges in Mississippi. Southeastern Conference schools. Former Southern Conference schools. Oxford, Mississippi. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after universities and colleges in the United States.