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Prospective students planning to pursue a career in music are invited to attend the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music Audition Day on Nov.

It's as predictable as day following night. Already hit with a 5 percent budget cut this year and bracing for another 3 percent cut, the state's university system is putting together cost-cutting plans to increase efficiency.

Despite battling cancer twice and rebuilding her Waveland home after Hurricane Katrina, college student Liz Zimmerman is optimistic as she works toward her goal of becoming a social worker.

The seventh annual Career Explorations for Girls Conference will be held in Joseph Greene Hall on the University of Southern Mississippi from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov.

A U.S. Department of Education grant providing support for area school districts to advance elementary school students' performance in mathematics is being administered through the University of Southern Mississippi's Frances Karnes Center for Gifted Studies.

Students, faculty and staff at The University of Southern Mississippi on Thursday celebrated the opening of the new Student Activities Hub, located in what was once the university textbook store in The Hub.

It was a mere snippet of information, stumbled upon by chance, that led children's-book author Louise Borden to years of researching and writing "The Journey That Saved Curious George." It was this sentence - "On a rainy morning in June 1940, escaped on bicycles from Paris." - that piqued Borden's interest.

The state Department of Education and the University of Southern Mississippi will provide a new school-based program for children with autism.

Two journalists who were central to The Times-Picayune's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina will speak at the University of Southern Mississippi Thursday, Nov.

The University of Southern Mississippi Department Of Athletics recently was recognized with a Halbrook Award for its men's program for outstanding academic achievement and graduation rates for student-athletes during the 2008-09 academic year.

President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally for Gov. Jon Corzine in Hackensack, N.J., on Wednesday, Oct.

Student Health Services on the University of Southern Mississippi campus now has H1N1 flu vaccine mist available to students, faculty and staff.

Texansa role in the 1863 campaign to defend Vicksburg will be examined in a seminar to be held in Abilene on Nov.

Two members of the Department of History faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi have been chosen to compete for a prestigious National Endowment for Humanities Summer Stipend.

The University of Southern Mississippi Roots N' Shoots chapter is hosting the Haunted Halloween Biology Trail from 4 -7 p.m. Friday in the Biological Sciences Learning Center.

It's not unusual for teachers of science and other subjects to use popular films, or clips from movies, to introduce or reinforce a topic or present it in an engaging way.

Black and gold remain the dominant colors at the University of Southern Mississippi, but pink has been pushed to the forefront during October.

With help from a Mississippi Arts Commission grant, William Carey University took area high school students into the world of a renowned Mississippi author Tuesday.

Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum's investiture proceedings as the school's 19th president since 1878 will begin with early morning prayers in the university's Chapel of Memories.