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Finally, in 1950, the Mississippi Legislature enacted a law to create a four-year medical school associated with the University of Mississippi. On July 1, 1955, the state's new Medical Center, then commonly referred to as UMC, opened in Jackson, initially as a four-year medical school with medical and graduate students, interns and residents.
In 1955, it was moved from the Oxford campus to the state capital of Jackson and was expanded to include the third and fourth years of training. The University of Mississippi Medical Center, the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi, houses the School of Medicine. As of 2006, there were 413 students enrolled in UMSOM.
Hubert Creekmore (1907–1966), author. Ellen Douglas (pen name of Josephine Haxton, 1921–2012), novelist. Winifred Hamrick Farrar (1923–2010), Mississippi poet laureate [4] John Faulkner (1901–1963), plain-style writer, brother of William Faulkner. William Faulkner (1897–1962), author, Nobel laureate.
Russell L. Blaylock (born November 15, 1945) is an author and a retired U.S. neurosurgeon. Blaylock was a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In 2013 he was a visiting professor in the biology department at Belhaven College. [1]
Alastair Compston. David Alastair Standish Compston (born 23 January 1948) [1] is a British neurologist. He is an emeritus professor of neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and an emeritus fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. [2][3]
Mississippi State University: Starkville: Public: 1878 Research university: Mississippi University for Women: Columbus: Public: 1884 Master's university: Mississippi Valley State University: Itta Bena: Public: 1950 Master's university: Northeast Mississippi Community College: Booneville: Public: 1948 Community college: Northwest Mississippi ...
The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university in Oxford, Mississippi, with a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment. [4] The Mississippi Legislature chartered the university on February 24, 1848, and it admitted its first 80 students.
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 ...