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The Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy operate on both the Oxford and Jackson campuses. The Schools of Dentistry, Health Related Professionals and Medicine, and the Health Sciences Graduate School, are based in Jackson only. (Additional healthcare programs are available through the School of Applied Sciences on the Oxford campus.) Other than these exceptions, the schools above are on the Oxford campus.

Employee Profile

Lucile M McCook

Academic Advisor II
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407 SHOEMAKER HALL
UNIVERSITY, MS 38677
(662) 915-5488
Joined UM: August 10, 1999

Brief Bio

Dr. Lucile McCook is Instructional Professor, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies and Curator of the Pullen Herbarium at UM. She received her Ph.D. (Plant Systematics) Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University in 1989 and was a postdoctural fellow at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC from 1989-1990. Dr. McCook has been at UM since 1993 & taught Botany, non-majors Biology & freshman Biology for science majors (BISC 160 & 162). Dr. McCook currently teaches a graduate level Plant Taxonomy course (BISC 532) and is the Director of the University of Mississippi Biology Bootcamp, a 5 day intensive academic program to prepare freshmen to succeed in freshman biology for science majors.

Degrees

BS
Horticulture
Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge (1976)
MS
Biology
University of New Orleans (1982)
PhD
Biology
Cornell University-Endowed Colleges (1989)

Committee Memberships

Honors - Honors Task Force
Task Force

Awards

Excellence in Advising Award - Office of the Provost
2020