University of Mississippi Research Foundation
Advancing innovation and economic growth through collaboration
The University of Mississippi Research Foundation fosters partnerships and innovation across the University of Mississippi enterprise to solve problems and drive economic growth.
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 Missisppi 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 unviersity community with key and aspirational external partners.
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Partnerships & Industry Engagement
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Leadership
President: John C. Higginbotham
Secretary: Hughes Miller
Treasurer: Anna Langley
Virginia “Ginny” Chavis
Associate Provost, Professor of Art
The University of Mississippi
Augustus L. (Leon) Collins
Major General, USA Retired
Chief Executive Officer, MINACT, Inc.,
Scott Kilpatrick
Executive Director, Center for Manufacturing Excellence
The University of Mississippi
John C. Higginbotham
Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development
The University of Mississippi
Anna Langley
Vice President & Secretary
The University of Mississippi Foundation
Hughes Miller
Senior Director of Industry Engagement
The University of Mississippi
Ryan Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Oxford and Lafayette County
Economic Development Foundation
Markeeva Morgan
Director, Special Projects Dallas
The Boeing Company
Pam Swain
President/CEO
Oxford Lafayette Chamber of Commerce
Derek Stephens
Assistant State Director
MS Small Business Development Center
Darin Van Pelt
Director and Professor of Practice General Engineering
Director of Strategic Initiatives
The University of Mississippi