Special Section : Beyond the Classroom

• From the Dean
• Learning Beyond the Classroom: Undergrads research rare medieval texts in Paris (Cover Story)
• Internships give students chance to learn from best teacher--experience
• Study Abroad students encounter a world of possibilities
• Spanish poet inspires student's voyage to Madrid
• Oral history project gives students unique perspective
• Political science term paper morphs into unique research opportunity
• Creating opportunities to learn
• Croft students get ready for the world

Students

• Producing Scholars, Making History
• Honors College students earn Goldwater scholarhips
• Phi Kappa Phi awards fellowship
• University awards MFAs in writing to Grisham fellows
• Pitch Perfect: Mid South's top high-school musicians gather at UM Honor Band clinic

Faculty and Departments

• UM offers state's first-ever Chinese major
• Behind Enemy Lines--Historian explores how aerial warfare blurred front lines and home front
• Distinguished economist offers perspective on post-9/11 world
• Professor uses technology, case studies to help lessons 'click' with non-biology majors
• You are what you eat: Sociologists study how our relationship with food shapes our society
• College honors Distinguished Faculty Fellows
• College of Liberal Arts welcomes new chairs
• Teaching Awards
  • Ann Fisher-Wirth, Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year
  • Joe Turner Cantú, Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teacher of Freshmen
  • Laurdella Foulkes-Levy, Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award
• Frist Prize: Students honor political science, psychology professor
• The College of Liberal Arts

Alumni and Giving

• Mindless Entertainment? Alum says more thought goes into video games than you might think
• Author endows scholarhip
• Meet Cody Giles, development officer for liberal arts
• Scholarships in the College
• Ripple effect: Gifts that keep giving
• 2006 Ventress Order Donors