Grant helps Mississippi medical students work in rural areas

May 9, 2021 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — University of Mississippi Medical Center officials say they are seeing an impact from a multimillion dollar grant that aims to get more doctors working in rural areas.

In July, the federal Health Resources and Services Administration awarded the UMMC medical school the first $1...

4 Mississippi universities share $20M federal science grant

September 18, 2018 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The National Science Foundation is giving four Mississippi universities $20 million over five years to study electronic devices that create, detect and control light...

Estimated 7,000 bodies may be buried at former asylum

By SARAH MEARHOFFMay 23, 2018 GMT

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Some of the boxes stacked inside anthropologist Molly Zuckerman's laboratory contain full bones — a skull, a jaw, or a leg...

Group’s mission: Save the historic research vessel Kit Jones

December 17, 2017 GMT

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A group of people are banding together to save a work boat with a storied past that once traversed the ocean off Georgia's coast...