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Jackson police shot and killed a man Wednesday morning and are looking for a second man in connection with a series of car break-ins at a northeast Jackson apartment complex.

On July 1, Dr. James Keeton, the vice chancellor's chief of staff at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, assumed responsibilities as interim vice chancellor for health affairs.

Dr. Cheryl A. Justice recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.

TheJacksonChannel.Com updated June 26, 2009 JACKSON, Miss. - WAPT.com Jackson police are looking into a late-night shooting.

Mississippi State University >> Mississippi State University has a variety of academic scholarships including scholarships for National Merit and National Achievement finalists and semi-finalists, National Hispanic Scholars, Valedictorians, Salutatorians, and overall academic excellence.

While no one was perfect, three went 14-of-15 -- a percentage Orlando would have loved from the free throw line during the NBA finals.

A committee charged by Mississippi University for Women President Dr. Claudia Limbert to give her recommendations for a new name for the school saw the most promise in the names Reneau University and Waverley University, during a session held Thursday on campus.

Financial executives appear cautiously optimistic about the future, and have identified opportunities to gain market share amidst the recession, according to a new study of financial executives released today.

UNIVERSITY, MS, June 11, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Mary L. Moore, Coordinator of Continuing Education Programs for The University of Mississippi, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in all aspects of higher education.

'Where is she?' anxiously asked one of the people milling around the buffet table set up next to Princeton Day School's vegetable garden one afternoon last week.

Abstract Flaviviruses are a major cause of infectious disease in humans. Dengue virus causes an estimated 50 million cases of febrile illness each year, including an increasing number of cases of hemorrhagic fever.

We have a four-way tie for first, with 13 series picked correctly -- Brian Bernatsky of New York, Melvin Herron of Memphis, Lee Smith of University, Miss., and Michael Taylor of Memphis.

Scientists use software to virtually grow corn, cotton, peanut, soybean and more.

VINCI Park, the specialist parking operator, has appointed Victoria Williams, of Wrexham, as its new regional commercial manager.

ToxSci Advance Access originally published online on April 1, 2009 Toxicological Sciences 2009 109 :237-246; doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfp054 ,1 , Bing Cheng* , Ruping Fan* , Wei Tan and Thomas Sebastian * Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71103 Department of Basic ...

Fax: 325-8884. E-mail: Pruett{at}cvm.msstate.edu . Received December 7, 2008; accepted April 3, 2009 Abstract Previous studies have demonstrated that the stress response induced by some drugs and chemicals contributes in a predictable way to alteration of particular immunological parameters in mice.

Higher education officials are winding down searches for two top administrators - a state commissioner of higher education and a chancellor for the University of Mississippi.

Bill Johnson, a Purdue University associate professor of weed science, said farmers who plant Roundup Ready crops and spray Roundup or glyphosate-based herbicides almost exclusively are finding that weeds have developed resistance.

'Babe Ruth Retire No. 3.' Nathaniel Fein, 1949. Courtesy of Nat Fein Estate. UNIVERSITY, MS.- "Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," the largest and most comprehensive display of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the United States, formally opens at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the ...

Jackson police are investigating an overnight shooting. Officers said it happened just after midnight Friday on the 200 block of Mobile Avenue.