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Philanthropy, Staff News Adopt-a-Basket Aims to Provide Thanksgiving Meal for Ole Miss Families
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Arts & Culture UM Expands Middle Eastern Language Offerings with Modern Hebrew
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Alumni News, Hotty Toddy For These Lifelong Friends, Hotty Toddy Is More Than a Cheer

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Gift Provides Medical Students a Place to Connect, Recharge and Thrive
OXFORD, Miss. – For Dr. Bob Bennett, giving back to the University of Mississippi Medical Center is both an expression of gratitude and an investment in future generations of health care professionals.
For These Lifelong Friends, Hotty Toddy Is More Than a Cheer
OXFORD, Miss. – For University of Mississippi alumnae Dinah Jordan and Carol Jo Barnes, Hotty Toddy is more than a cheer; it has become how they are known: Hotty and Toddy, respectively.
Adopt-a-Basket Aims to Provide Thanksgiving Meal for Ole Miss Families
OXFORD, Miss. – As the holiday season approaches, the Associated Student Body is working to ensure the men and women who help keep the University of Mississippi running can enjoy Thanksgiving with their families.
UM Expands Middle Eastern Language Offerings with Modern Hebrew
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's Department of Modern Languages, already renowned as the home of Language Flagship programs in Arabic and Chinese, is strengthening its offerings by offering Modern Hebrew this fall for the first time.

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Ole Miss Physicist Contributes to Nobel-Winning Research
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Researchers Study Why Some Trees Thrive Far from Home
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Researchers Use $2.6M Grant to Probe Mysteries of Universe

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The New Science of Stuttering

Roughly 80 million people around the world stutter, but the causes remain poorly understood and the odds of pinpointing the perfect treatment for stuttering are slim, Ole Miss professor Gregory Snyder said. “If you hear 25 different people who stutter, you could be listening to 25 different types of stuttering,” he said.

What Word Choices Reveal About Psychopathic Traits

UM psychologists have been studying how psychopathic traits influence the way people talk about their lives. In a new study, some 450 participants wrote about their best and worst experiences and a life-changing event. Researchers analyzed their word choices alongside questionnaires measuring psychopathic traits. Some of the findings were strange, to say the least.

American Plans to Conquer the Moon Again

“If we could land Americans on the moon in 1969, we can do it now,” said Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at UM. “Establishing a permanent presence is a greater undertaking, but we possess capabilities that the Apollo generation could scarcely have imagined."

Ice Age Spear Points Tell a Fascinating Story

The value we place on things is contingent on our circumstances and subject to change as they do. Anthropologists from the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama recently demonstrated this in a study of stone spear tips belonging to two groups of hunter-gatherers who settled in the Tennessee River Valley during different time periods.

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