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Ole Miss also owns University-Oxford Airport, which is located north of the main campus. [79] North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a Japanese weekend school, is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus. [94] [95] It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university.
A 1918 government inspection found the Lyceum to be in state of disrepair and deterioration. [12] In 1923, significant structural changes, including the addition of columns to the western entrance, were made to the Lyceum. [13] The campus' center is "The Circle", which consists of eight academic buildings organized around an ovaloid common. [14]
Purchasing the land from a Chickasaw, pioneers founded Oxford in 1837. In 1841, the Mississippi State Legislature selected it as the site of the state's first university, Ole Miss. Oxford is also the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner, and served as the inspiration for his fictional Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha County.
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center .
[4] [5] Its official United States Postal Service designation is "University, Mississippi", with a ZIP Code of 38677. The population at the 2010 census was 4,202, [6] while the 2014 enrollment for Ole Miss was 20,112 in 2014. [7] The University CDP is an enclave surrounded by the city of Oxford, west of its downtown area.
It is named in honor of Tom Swayze, a former Ole Miss baseball player and coach. The $3.75 million stadium opened on February 19, 1989, with a double header sweep of Cumberland University . The actual stadium sits on city property off-campus and was built by the City of Oxford, using a 2% Local Tourism Tax on prepared food and alcohol to pay ...
The Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science Technology Innovation is the largest building on the University of Mississippi campus. University of Mississippi opens much-anticipated new STEM building ...
The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss, also known as the SJB Pavilion, is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Mississippi in University, Mississippi. The $96.5 million multipurpose arena [4] is home to the University of Mississippi Rebels men's and women's basketball teams, with seating for up to 9,500 people. It is ...