University of Mississippi Research Foundation
The University of Mississippi Research Foundation fosters partnerships and innovation across the University of Mississippi enterprise to solve problems and drive economic growth.
Advancing innovation and economic growth through collaboration
Our function is to align the University of Mississippi's expertise and reach with external partnerships to amplify UM's impact to economic growth, community development, and innovation across Mississippi, the MidSouth, and beyond.
- We lead and promote partnership between University of Mississippi and industry, community partners, economic development organizations, and other external stakeholders.
- Our foundation augments the Office for Research and Economic Development's strategy to grow collaborative and interdisciplinary research in support of the University of Mississippi's mission to teach, research, and serve.
- We coordinate enterprise-wide engagement and partnership between the university community with key and aspirational external partners.
Campus Partners
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Partnerships & Industry Engagement
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Office of Technology Commercialization
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Insight Park
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Research Centers
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Leadership
President: John C. Higginbotham
Secretary: Hughes Miller
Treasurer: Anna Langley
John C. Higginbotham
Vice Chancellor for Research
and Economic Development
University of Mississippi
Anna Langley
Vice President and Secretary
University of Mississippi Foundation
Hughes Miller
Director of Strategic Partnerships
and the UM Research Foundation
University of Mississippi
Ryan Miller
CEO
Oxford Lafayette, Inc.
Markeeva Morgan
Vice President and Program Manager
Boeing
Davis Pace
President and CEO
Mississippi Enterprise for Technology
Chris Patterson
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Medtronic Cranial & Spine Technologies
Meagen Rosenthal
Provost Designee/Faculty Rep
Assoc. Professor of Pharmacy Administration
and Director, UM CREW
Wenzhuo Yang
Chief Technology Officer
Amplify Cell Technologies
Ex Officio Members:
Joe Hagerman
Director, Energy and Natural Resources Division
Mississippi Development Authority
Steven Holley
COO and Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration
and Finance
University of Mississippi
Operational & Financial Information
UM Research Foundation contact
Hughes Miller
- Director of Strategic Partnerships and The University of Mississippi Research Foundation