This Month:

• MUW campus newspaper transitions from print to digital

• MUW police chief accepts position at Ole Miss

• Free workshops offered through the MUW Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship

• MUW part of nursing consortium

• MUW hosts various camps this summer

• Holcombe promoted to executive director of development at MUW

May, 2008:

• Bean receives Kossen Faculty Excellence Award at MUW

• MUW receives No Child Left Behind grant for summer math program

• MUW graduate nursing program has 100 percent pass rate on ANCC exam

• MUW to award three Medals of Excellence

• Local educators learn new strategies at meeting and exposition in Salt Lake City

• MUW graduates to continue their studies at Harvard and Johns Hopkins

• Dr. Delene Willis Lee Scholarship Fund to help non-traditional students

• Biddy named post secondary Educator of the Year at Link banquet

• MUW Senior Art Exhibition reception Friday

• MUW’s TVA Investment Club earns $3,000 in 2007

• WCBI-TV’s Aundrea Self to speak at MUW Mag Chain ceremony

• SACS president to address MUW graduates on May 10

April, 2008:

• MUW Offers Engaged Learning

• MUW Chorale to perform at Carnegie Hall

• Lieb to speak on Chickasaw history at Plymouth Bluff

• Experts on the past and present of environmental policy to speak at
  MUW

• Smyth to speak at nurse practitioner convention; Curtis inducted into MNA Hall of Fame

• MUW political science professor makes impact on scholarship and field

• Grigas presents paper at meeting of the Organization of American
  Historians

• MUW Chorale to perform May 1

• Watkins and McNees attend Phi Theta Kappa International Convention

• MUW senior art exhibit opens

• MUW Fine Arts Building undergoing renovation

• MUW presents `The Taffetas: A Musical Journey through the Fabulous Fifties’

• MUW’s Culinary Arts Institute holds cooking contest with Cabot Creamery

• MUW President Limbert responds to 20/20 Task Force White Paper

• MUW Homecoming to feature master chef and blues band; events open to public

• MUW’s Homecoming celebration set for April 17-20

• MUW professor to talk to Tupelo High School about militant Islam

March, 2008:

• MUW student awarded graduate fellowship at The University of Alabama

• MUW College Research Day set for April 1

• Labensky named Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year at MUW

• MUW art faculty accepted to annual Bi-State Competition

• MUW professor’s book receives favorable praise

• Smith receives award for his short story

• Roberts named MUW director of alumni relations

• MUW students present at Mississippi Academy of Sciences conference

• CAI hosts food service workshop for Mississippi Army National Guard team

• MUW students place third in national culinology competition

• MUW student culinology team competes in Seattle

• MUW Police Department to offer course on personal safety

• MUW helps nontraditional student reach his goal

• MUW to host statewide leadership and entrepreneurship conference for women

February, 2008:

• MUW faculty member has noteworthy accomplishments

• AT&T grants $25,000 toward MUW Teaching Circles

• MUW International Series to delve into issues of the world

• MUW Theatre Department invites community to ‘Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding’

• Google Apps to be introduced to MUW students

• Area high school students participate in Allied Health Day at MUW

• MUW to host international theatre troupe, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

• Journalism workshop at MUW offers lessons from veterans

• MUW College of Business hosts event to help students prepare for college

• Crumbley crowned Miss W 2008

• MUW Center for Creative Learning appropriated $292,000

January, 2008:

• MUW coaches to help high school juniors and seniors stand out

• MUW offers dual enrollment for high school students

• MUW recognized for best practice

• MUW professors' works displayed in Meridian Museum of Art

• Grandson of Ghandi to speak at MUW

December, 2007:

• IHL Board approves two new degree programs at MUW

• Five inducted into Mississippi Hall of Master Teachers at MUW

November, 2007:

• MUW's December Graduates’ Recognition Ceremony set for Nov. 30

• MUW Nursing students honored at convention

• Madrigal Singers to present Christmas Madrigal Feast

• MUW Culinary Arts Institute awarded grant

October, 2007:

• Mini-grant to help promote cancer awareness

• Hearin Leadership Students help renovate houses in Jackson

• MUW Theatre Department to perform 'Wit'

• Events planned for Women's Health Awareness Week

• MUW graduate gets internship with NASA Contractor

September, 2007:

• Continuation Grant awarded to MUW’s Crossroads Program

• Ellen Douglas and other writers to be featured in annual Welty Symposium

• Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss to headline MUW’s Welty Gala

• MUW mathematics professors score big outside the classroom

• MUW Residential Honors Program to feature several faculty in residence

August, 2007

• MUW professor, two alumni honored by Girl Scouts

• MUW honors students participate in undergraduate research

• MUW ranked a top Southern public master’s university four years in a row

• MUW program `bridges the gap’ between high school and first year in college

• Health education graduate students land interesting internship
  opportunities

• MUW creative writing majors to benefit from scholarship

July, 2007

• Consumers Digest ranks MUW a best value for public colleges and
  universities

• MUW opens new health center

• MUW culinary graduate cooks at White House

• MUW’s graduate nursing program awarded grant

June, 2007

• Hunt named interim dean of the College of Business at MUW

• MUW Residential Honors Program culminates with London trip

• Biddy receives Kossen Faculty Excellence Award

• Mississippi Governor's School speakers series open to the public

May, 2007

• Summer enrollment up at MUW

• Alumna working at the FCC during the summer

• MUW Business Week celebrates 30 years

• Officials, student say degree from MUW worth the investment

• Students complete Crossroads program

• MUW grad lands dream job in Nashville

• Oppenheimer named Woman of Achievement by AAUW in Mississippi

• Rices establish scholarship to benefit music majors

• Goodman awarded MUW honorary doctorate; Lott Medal of Excellence recipient

April, 2007

• Wicker’s chief of staff to speak at MUW Mag Chain Ceremony

• Sen. Lott to address MUW graduates on May 5

• Wenstrom named post secondary Educator of the Year at Link banquet

• Got Genealogy? Explore county records at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library

• MUW announces Alumni Achievement Award recipients

• Art professor wins Best of Show

• Whitehead presents paper at Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s Studies

• Endowment to provide full nursing scholarship at MUW

• Betcher completes FastTrac TechVenture certification class

• MUW’s Homecoming celebration set for April 20-22

• MUW Nursing Student Hired at Johns Hopkins

• Kappa Pi silent auction to be held April 21

• 12th Annual Silhouette Charity Golf Tournament

• Speaker series exposes MUW students to local business owners

March, 2007

• RTP grant will be used to improve nature trails at Plymouth Bluff Center

• MUW’s premier education and recreation facility set to open Monday

• MUW culinary graduate uses degree with a twist

• MUW Alumni Association: Come together, move forward

• MUW Alumni Association Board Formed

• Spectator garners awards at journalism conference

• Art faculty work accepted in competition 

• MUW culinary students place second at National Culinology Competition

• MUW alumni recommend active and supportive role for future association

• MUW senior and graduate place in MPA 2006 Better Newspaper Contest

• MUW nursing students give TLC to Trinity residents

February, 2007

• Culinary students to compete in New Orleans

• White to speak on medieval feasting customs

• Crossroads program targets over 200 seventh and eighth graders

• Women’s Spring Leadership Conference set for March 1-2

• MUW Women’s Health Awareness Week to feature walking expert

• MUW faculty member, student recognized by the Mississippi Legislature

• Speaker discusses India’s ‘call center phenomena’

• Hollis and Baldwin have short film accepted into Magnolia Independent Film Festival

• Professor of history gives presentation to Historical Society

• Columbus resident earns MUW degree after 15 years

• Van Bankston brings work to MUW Art Gallery

• Keller receives new book contract

• Pennington crowned Miss W 2007

• Overby announces members of MUW Alumni Advisory Committee

• MUW Alumni Association Advisory Committee to be expanded

• Grandson of Gandhi to speak at MUW

• Former MUW student body president returns to his alma mater

• MUW's Bunnell teaches wives of SeverCorr executives conversational English

• Miss W pageant to be held Feb. 10

• Small Business Resource Workshop offered at MUW

• Overby to chair MUW Alumni Association Advisory Committee

• MUW professor writes novel

January, 2007

• Adams and MUW Department of Nursing win big at Nightingale Awards

• MUW’s theatre production selected for regional festival

• MUW Department of Nursing nominated for Nightingale Award

• MUW plays home to high school students during Hearin Conference

• Smyth chair of MUW’s Department of Graduate Nursing

• Spring enrollment up at MUW

• Judge Hatchett to speak at noon on Friday

• Jenkins named dean of College of Education and Human Sciences

• MUW proceeds with Facilities Master Plan