For more information contact (601) 969-4091 or (601) 500-0743.Īpril 11, 2009: 11:00 a.m., Author Patti Carr Black and Suzanne Mars, Eudora Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at Millsaps College, discuss their friend Eudora and her work with Malcolm White, executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission, on the Mississippi Arts Hour on Mississippi Public Broadcasting's HD network "Music Radio."Īpril 11 - July 5, 2009: Welty in New York photographic exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi. Consists of portraits of Eudora Welty, images representing her home or characters, and depictions of scenes from stories or books submitted by Mississippi artists. USM also received an anonymous gift of $1 million to establish a Presidential Fund for Excellence to support priority needs of the university.April 9 - April 30, 2009: Continuing exhibition, Eudoric Eurythmy: Visual Arts Based on the Life and Works of Eudora Welty, Highlands Fine Art Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi. Luckyday has contributed $35.7 million to USM since the foundation began in 2001. Day, former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Trustmark National Bank. The foundation is named after the late Frank R.
One of the largest donors, the Luckyday Foundation of Ridgeland, gave $8.7 million toward the endowment to support the Luckyday Scholars Program, which funds scholarships for Mississippi high-school seniors who demonstrate leadership skills and are involved in their communities. In the same fiscal year, USM used $7.6 million from the endowment to support various programs, That amount also includes $3.9 million in funding for more than 2,200 scholarships. More than 3,900 donors gave more than $21.3 million total over the course of the year to hit the milestone. The University of Southern Mississippi recently announced that its USM Foundation endowment reached $100 million in fiscal year 2018. USM Foundation Reaches $100 Million Milestone In 2015, the Military Order of the Purple Heart designated the school as a "Purple Heart University" for its support of the military community.įor more information on MSU's services for service members, veterans and their dependents, visit. Armed Forces veterans, service members and dependents of service members are enrolled at MSU. To be eligible for the program, service members must be full-time undergraduate students in good standing with their unit and cannot be within a year of their expiration of term of service, a press release from MSU states.Ĭurrently, around 650 U.S.
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7, that says MSU will guarantee free tuition for Mississippi National Guard service members. Janson "Durr" Boyles signed an agreement on Tuesday, Aug.
Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum and National Guard Commander Maj. MSU Offers Free Tuition for National Guard She has written two award-winning novels, "The Story of Land and Sea" and "Free Men," as well as her historical nonfiction book, "We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835." HarperCollins Publishers will release her third novel in 2020.įor more information, visit. Smith earned her bachelor's degree in history and film studies from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., a master's degree in creative writing from Bennington College in Vermont, and a doctorate in United States history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As part of her new position on the Millsaps faculty, the younger Smith will teach a course this fall called "The Art of the South: Literature, Film and Music." Smith is the daughter of Millsaps philosophy and religious studies professor Steven Smith and art history professor Elise Smith. The college established the new position this year after it received two donations of $500,000 each-one from Millsaps alumnus Joe Sanderson and wife Kathy Sanderson, and one from the Phil Hardin Foundation, a nonprofit that supports educational programs in Mississippi. Millsaps College named novelist and historian Katy Simpson Smith to the newly endowed post of Eudora Welty chair for southern literature on July 19.
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