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Expanding possibilities
Christin Gates has developed an avocation to help erase the inequities and inadequacies of the Mississippi public education system through policy making and social advocacy, using skills she has honed in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. “One thing I love about Ole Miss is the value it places on servant […]
Psychology Professor’s Fulbright Studies in Tanzania
When Laura Johnson returned from her first trip to Africa—a yearlong study in Kenya as a University of Mississippi junior in 1989—the director of study abroad gave her a brochure for the Fulbright Scholar grant and told her she’d need it one day. That director was right. In January, Johnson, a UM associate professor of […]
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in vulnerable and resilient genetic lines in the chick anxiety-depression model
By Melissa Loria and other members of Professor Sufka's laboratory group
Psychology Alumnus Makes Major Gift
A $1.8 million donation from a 1947 UM graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology will help with faculty recruitment. For the first seven years of his life, Charles Moore lived in a home with no electricity on a dirt road near Blytheville, Ark. As he matured, he made three goals for his life: […]
