University of Mississippi Foundation

More than three decades after meeting as freshmen at the University of Mississippi, Margaret and John Barker of Nashville, Tennessee, are giving back through support for two areas close to their hearts: the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy (OMWC) and the School of Journalism and New Media.

The couple’s recent gift establishes endowments that honor their childr...

A $1 million gift of appreciated stock to the University of Mississippi Medical Center will bring world-class cancer treatment closer to home for Mississippi families while honoring the donor’s wife.

For more than four decades, Jackson, Mississippi, attorney Ron Yarbrough built a distinguished legal career representing clients in some of the South’s largest commercial ...

For Peggy and Keith McKey, the University of Mississippi has been a source of lifelong friendships, professional opportunity and family tradition spanning generations.

Now, the couple is helping ensure future students will benefit from the same transformative experience that shaped their lives by making a $100,000 gift to the Patterson School of Accountancy Building Fu...

For years, students at the University of Mississippi have danced the night away while raising money during RebelTHON, which benefits the state’s only Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, Children’s of Mississippi.

This year, two members of the Tau Chapter of Chi Omega at the University of Mississippi served on the executive board for the 15th annual dance marathon, con...

A gift that represents three generations of University of Mississippi alumni is expected to help even more generations of engineering students.

With a $50,000 gift to the university, retired UM professor T.E. Horton Jr. of Houston, Texas, established the Horton Family Endowed Scholarship for Geology and Geological Engineering.

When Horton traveled from Californi...