You can walk through the hallways of Smith Chemistry Building this semester and literally smell the hard work of aspiring chemists behind laboratory walls. The odors wafting through Smith, and also several other buildings on campus, are courtesy of the labs’ failing fume hoods, which are causing potentially ...
For years it was an idea tossed around and left behind. It was a creative vision that got overlooked. In the Spring of 2001, Gallery 203 was thought to be a reality, sending waves of jubilation through the entire art department. Things didn’t exactly speed off into success, though. Construction delays ...
There’s an old cliché about life that claims, “there’s no turning back.” Blues man, jazz man or better yet, music man Billy Gibson, said “once you go forward, you can’t go back.” Gibson, a 30-year-old Clinton, Miss., native, took what he saw as the obvious path to the realization of a ...
Caviar in Memphis. Doesn’t quite have the ring of barbecue, does it? Nevertheless, the luxurious spread may be a taste served courtesy of the fish folks on South Campus. The University of Memphis’ Ecological Research Center has splashed around in several aquacultural endeavor —dipping into caviar ...
Pan-Hellenic organizations at The University of Memphis stand on a legacy of brotherhood, sisterhood and excellence. But for almost 40 years now, these groups have “stepped” up their expressions of goodwill and unity and flashed a little style along the way. The U of M steppers first got their feet ...
The New York Times reports that over 50 percent of people in the world suffer from chronic shyness, and public speaking has long been an American’s foremost fear in the “Book of Lists.” At a glance, the patrons of The University of Memphis seem to buck the national trend as the masses are seen ...
There’s no mystery to the economic status of Tennessee higher education facilities. The well’s just dry. Officials are left scrounging for spare bucks, searching for corners to cut — and somewhere between the woes, University of Memphis President Shirley Raines presses for optimism. Now, the trickle-down ...
At a glance, The University of Memphis may look like just another urban college. However, to the analytical thinker, a philosophically rationalist approach may be in order. That is: To judge the whole, one must widen the scope and examine the value of its parts. At The U of M you’ll find arts and ...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s The Pizza Man! In the late 1950s, an American super-hero emerged, serving the public with four wheels and a insulated square plastic bag. “It’s crazy the kind of effect we have on people out there,” said seven-year driver James Ray. “Man, I might as ...
