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The Piney Woods School was founded in 1909 by Laurence C. Jones. [3] Jones added the Mississippi School of the Blind for Negroes in the early 1920s, and in 1929, with the arrival of Martha Louise Morrow Foxx serving as principal, the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes was founded at Piney Woods.
Mississippi State University campus: Starkville: Constructed 1902-03 using Beaux-Arts architectural style [7] 16: Nash Street Historic District: June 24, 1993 : 525 University Dr. and 101-117 N. Nash St.
Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Collection. The Mitchell Memorial Library is in the heart of the campus, on the eastern side of the Drill Field. [29] The library has a collection of 2,124,341 volumes and 70,331 journals. [30] Mississippi State is one of the few universities to house presidential papers.
Richard E. Holmes (born February 17, 1944) is an American medical doctor who specialized in emergency department medicine. As a third-year college student, in 1965 he enrolled in the previously segregated Mississippi State University.
Humphrey Coliseum is a 9,100-seat multi-purpose arena located on the campus of Mississippi State University, just outside Starkville, Mississippi, that opened for the 1975-76 basketball season. Nicknamed The Hump, it is home to the Mississippi State Bulldogs men's and women's basketball teams. The building is the equivalent of seven stories ...
The term has been shooting around the education field and news reports lately with increasing frequency: "the Mississippi miracle." The reference is to that benighted state's surprising success in ...
The Cobb Institute of Archaeology was established in June 1971 by Mississippi State University alumnus Cully A. Cobb and his wife, Lois Dowdle Cobb. [4] An initial donation of just over $1 million in stock of the Ruralist Press for endowment support was made in 1971, and an additional $500,000 was donated in order to fund the construction of a building (in a letter written to then-University ...
Belhaven houses one university within the neighborhood itself, Belhaven University, and is located within relative proximity to two other universities, The University of Mississippi Medical Center and Jackson State University, as well as two colleges, Millsaps College and Mississippi College School of Law.