| Thanks to the combined effort of over 600 University of Memphis students, Up ‘til Dawn raised $130,000 last year. Up ‘til Dawn is a student-led, student-run philanthropic program that raises money for and awareness of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. |
| The Up `til Dawn fund-raising program for St. Jude Children`s Research Hospital was founded at the University of Memphis in 1999. Since that time, the program has spread to more than 250 campuses nationwide. |
| The University of Memphis has raised more than $700,000 for St. Jude Children`s Research Hospital since the Up `til Dawn fund-raising program was implemented in 1999, making the U of M the largest collegiate contributor to St. Jude ever. |
| The University of Memphis received more than $50.6 million in external funding for research in 2007-08. |
| With over 1,400 participants, the Honors Program now is in its 37th year. |
| Dr. Mohammed Yeasin, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $494,919 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research. The Career Award is the most prestigious award junior faculty members can receive from the NSF. |
| The Tennessee College Public Relations Association recognized The University of Memphis Magazine with a 2008 Bronze Award for overall magazine and a gold award for photography. |
| University of Memphis graduate student Miska Shaw was selected by the Smithsonian Institute to participate in the James W. Webb Internship Program for minority senior and graduate students in business and public administration. |
| The University of Memphis campus has been designated a Level 2 Arboretum by the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council and the Tennessee State Division of Forestry. To achieve that designation requires that at least 60 varieties of trees must be labeled and available for a self-guided tour. |
| Darius Young, a doctoral candidate in history at the U of M, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Young is one of 20 Gilder Lehrman Fellows for the second half of 2008. The Institute has funded a total of 521 fellowships since 1994. |
| Dr. Carol Crown, professor of art history at the U of M, contributed the principal essay on the Mullis Collection in the book Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection. The book won a bronze medal at the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards and received the prize in the fine arts category at the 12th annual IPPY Awards in Los Angeles on May 30. |
| The U of M team of advertising students in the Department of Journalism won second place in the Seventh District National Student Advertising Competition sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. They developed an integrated communication campaign, which was presented to the client in front of a panel of judges. |
| The U of M has 25 Chairs of Excellence, more than any other university in Tennessee. A Chair of Excellence is a state-designated, definitive authority in his or her field of study. |
| U of M physicist Dr. Firouzeh Sabri was involved in the design of the calibration targets onboard NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft which landed on Mars. Dr. Sabri`s contribution was to coat a 'calibration target,' a piece of silicone that is an essential component of the mission, with an extremely thin layer of metal that will protect it from the dust-filled Martian atmosphere. |
| The Center for Information Assurance (CfIA) has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence by the DHS and NSA. The center is committed to community cyber security research and to community education concerning this crucial issue. The center was awarded the Department of Homeland Security ACT Online Grant and was recently re-certified by the Committee on National Security Systems (CMSS) by continuing to offer courses which satisfy or exceed Standards 4011, 4012, and 4013. The Department of Defense awarded the center the Capacity Building Grant and is funding the center`s Graduate Certificate in Information Assurance. |
| Dr. Elinor Kelley Grusin has been named Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation. She received the Charles E. Scripps Award and $10,000 in April 2008 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The U of M also received a $5,000 grant from the Foundation. |
| Kelly McFall, a senior public relations major at the U of M, has recieved the Elaine Averick Outstanding National Committee Member Award from the Public Relations Student Society of America. The award recognizes dedicated service to the National Committee and to the membership of PRSSA. |
| U of M law students Jennifer Bellott and Michael Goodin placed second at the national championships of the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition. Bellott was named National Best Advocate, an award given to the best oral advocate of the competition. Some 180 teams from around the country entered the competition. |
| Dr. Lily Afshar`s latest release, 'Hemispheres' reached #7 on Billboard's Top classical Album Chart. The CD spent two weeks on the chart. Dr. Afshar is professor of guitar. |
| All academic buildings on the main U of M campus have wireless Internet access. |
| The FedEx Center for Supply Chain Management is the only center in the U.S. devoted to industrial/academic collaboration for research in cycle time issues. |
| The University of Memphis awarded more than $27 million in scholarships for the 2007-08 academic year. |
| Craig Leake, U of M assistant professor of film, won two Emmys for his documentary about teachers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Chemo Ate My Homework won awards in the categories of best documentary/topical and best director/non-news. The U of M was the only university to win in two categories. |
| Dr. Marian Levy, associate professor and director of the Master of Public Health program at the U of M, received the 2008 Ruby R. Wharton Outstanding Woman Award in the area of race relations. |
| Cary Holladay, associate professor of English at the U of M, has won the Miami University Press novella contest sponsored by Miami University of Ohio. Holladay’s work of fiction was chosen from more than 150 entries. She has received numerous honors, including the Goodheart Prize, the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, and the O. Henry Award.\r\n |
| The Handbook of Marketing Research: Uses, Misuses and Future Advances, co-edited by Dr. Rajiv Grover, dean of the U of M Fogelman College of Business & Economics, has received the Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice. |
| The U of M Law School ranked 5th nationwide as a Best Value Law School by PreLaw Magazine based on the combination of high bar pass rate, high employment rate, and low tuition. |
| U of M Law School professor Ernie Lidge is currently serving as a Reporter for the Tennessee Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. The committee is engaged in a major project that will result in recommendation for revisions of the Tennessee ethical rules. |
| U of M Law School professor Chris Zawisza was appointed by Justice Clark to the Tennessee Supreme Court Dependency Court Improvement Task Force. They are drafting proposed revisions to Tennessee’s juvenile laws. Zawisza also serves on other commissions concerning juvenile law. |
| Janet Richards, U of M Law School professor, recently completed her one-year term as chair of the Association of American Law Schools section of Family Law. Richards was also appointed to a three-year term on the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Advisory Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. |
| The Tiger Spirit Squads brought home two National Championships for 2008, winning top honors in two of its three divisions for the first time in school history. The all-girls squad won its second National title in the All-Girls division and the dance team earned its second consecutive National title in the Hip-Hop division. |
| The University of Memphis` Child Development Center received a special note of appreciation from the NACCP and is an officially accredited Three Star Center. Recognition has been given for its positive teacher and child interactions and teacher training. |
| The rehabilitation counseling master`s degree program in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research was ranked in the top 20 nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 2007.\r\n |
| The academic credentials of students enrolled in the Honors Program are impressive. For the incoming Honors freshmen in Fall 2007, the average ACT score was 28 and the average high school GPA was 3.86. More than 20 percent of the freshmen scored 30 or higher on the ACT. |
| Our graduate program in discrete mathematics and combinatorics was ranked one of the top 15 programs nationally by U.S. News and World Report. |
| The Loewenberg School of Nursing has one of the largest BSN and MSN programs at a public university in Tennessee. Graduates consistently score high on licensure exams, and several classes have scored 100 percent. |
| The University of Memphis is home to the only Confucius Institute in the southeast United States. Confucius Institutes are funded by the Beijing-based Office of Chinese Language Council International. |
| Former University of Memphis golfer and native Memphian Tom Stickney was recognized by Golf Magazine in 2007 as one of the top 100 teachers in America. |
| In January 2007, Dr. Theresa Okwumabua, instructor in the Department of Psychology, and Dr. Pamela Cogdal, assistant professor in Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research, were awarded a three year SAMSHA grant for suicide prevention and mental health awareness on college campuses.\r\n |
| Betsy Chesnutt, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Memphis, has received a Fulbright Program grant to study in the Netherlands in fall 2007. |
| Dr. Richard C. Warder, Jr., dean of the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007. |
| Dwayne Scott, associate dean of students for judicial affairs at the University of Memphis, was selected to participate in the 2007 Maxine Smith Fellows Program of the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), the governing body for 47 universities, community colleges and technology centers throughout the state. |
| The University of Memphis’ Master`s of Arts in Liberal Studies – Strategic Leadership degree received the Distinguished Program Award for credit programming at the Association for Continuing Higher Education Region VII Conference in 2007. All classes are offered at the University of Memphis Jackson Center on the Jackson State Community College Campus. |
| Craig Leake, assistant professor at the University of Memphis, won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award for his documentary, The Chemo Ate My Homework, about a group of school teachers at St. Jude Children`s Research Hospital. |
| The University of Memphis has raised more than $700,000 for St. Jude Children`s Research Hospital since the Up `til Dawn fund-raising program was implemented in 1999, making the U of M the largest collegiate contributor to St. Jude ever. |
| Third-year architecture student Anthea Selkirk was awarded the prestigious Francis Mah Travel Grant by the Mah Family and the Memphis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The award, given in memory of the internationally acclaimed architect Francis Mah, is open to advanced architecure students and intern architects. |
| The Campus School at the University of Memphis has been recognized as one of the highest achieving schools in Tennessee, with 99% of its students scoring proficient or advanced in both reading and math. |
| The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology is home to the largest public collection of Egyptian antiquities in the South. |
| The U of M has been named to the first President`s Honor Roll for Distinguished Community Service with distinction for hurricane relief service. |
| For the first time in school history, the men`s soccer team had a player taken in the Major League Soccer Draft. Dayton O`Brien was selected by the Columbus Crew as the 33rd pick overall in the MLS Super Draft and Andy Metcalf was picked up in the second round of the MLS Supplemental Draft by D.C. United. |
| The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is the only doctoral degree granting music school in the state of Tennessee and within a 300 mile radius of the city of Memphis. |
| Recording technology students at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music recently won first prize in the national Shure Recording Competition. The award included $10,000 worth of Shure microphones and $3,000 in scholarship money. |
| Since 1991 the Honors Program has funded 98 students to present their research at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, an annual event that draws over 2,000 students and faculty to hear and discuss undergraduate scholarly activities. |
| The College of Education, in conjunction with Memphis City Schools, received a $2.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund the Striving Readers Program. The grant is one of the largest ever awarded for reading research in an urban school district. |
| Our College of Education is home to five national professional journals. |
| The College of Education`s New Teacher Center was recently awarded an Academic Excellence Award by the Tennessee Board of Regents. |
| Laurie Yeargin, Executive Director of Up `til Dawn at the University of Memphis, was named as one of the \"50 Women Who Make a Difference\" by Memphis Woman Magazine. |
| During Greek Week, University of Memphis students collected 1596 cans of food for FirstWorks Inc. Food Pantry. |
| Two University of Memphis students have been chosen to represent their Greek organizations on the national level. Morgan Crenshaw is the 2007 Conference Coordinator for the Southeastern Panhellenic Association and Mark King is the 2006-2007 Region IV Vice-President for the Southeastern Interfraternity Conference. |
| The Tigers are 13-5 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in the last three seasons. |
| In the last five years, Tommy West has placed 41 Tigers on the All-Conference USA team, including 14 first-team members and 14 freshman honorees. |
| Sophomore rifle team member Krissey Bahnsen received a second team All-America honor in air rifle from the National Rifle Association Collegiate Program. |
| Softball team members Bridgette McNulty and Cara Stiles earned Second Team All-Conference honors in the team`s inaugural season. |
| Softball team members Leila Dolfo and Kimmi Hayden were named to the C-USA All-Freshman team in the softball team`s inaugural season. |
| The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have designated the U of M as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for 2006 through 2009. |
| Psychology professor Art Graesser has been named president elect of the Artificial Intelligence in Education Society. His presidential term will begin in summer 2007. |
| Over 95% of students visiting Student Health Services report that they were seen by a doctor or nurse practitioner within 30 minutes. Also, nearly 100% of students report that they would use Student Health Services again. |
| University of Memphis student and former Commercial Appeal intern, Brittany-Blair Dedrick recently won a prestigious scholarship from the Scripps-Howard Foundation`s Top-Ten Scholarship program. |
| Each semester over 100 U of M students provide volunteer note taking services to fellow students with disabilities. Their generosity helps the University keep costs down, while providing quality accommodations to disabled students. |
| Our Child Development Center has a Three Star Rating on the Star-Quality Child Care Program. Receiving three stars, which the Center has done every year since the process began, means that it has the top rating for quality in the State of Tennessee. |
| The Communication Department`s Rhetorical Studies Ph.D. is ranked in the top 15 nationally by the National Communication Association. |
| University of Memphis student Elaina Magnus was selected by Maybelline of New York to intern with their New York office. After completing the internship, she was hired by the Maybelline/Garnier branch of L’oreal USA and has begun a full time position in the Management Training Rotation Program. |
| The University of Memphis Student Health Services is the only primary care facility in Memphis with digital radiology. |
| Researchers with the U of M Intelligent Security Systems Research Lab are using their knowledge of how the body fights viruses to help computers create systems that will fight computer viruses. |
| The Herff College of Engineering`s Center for Advanced Sensors is the recipient of a $1.2 million federal grant. |
| Researchers in the U of M`s Institute for Intelligent Systems are developing intelligent computer tutors that are currently helping students learn physics and reading strategies. |
| Our Center for Earthquake Research and Information is conducting research in 140 stations throughout the southeastern United States and five other countries. |
| The University`s public relations program is rated one of the 23 premier public relations programs in the country by respected educator Bill Baxter. |
| Each year, the Center for Research in Educational Policy evaluates hundreds of different national and local education reform programs to determine what is working in K-12 schools. |
| University of Memphis students can choose to study abroad at 165 institutions in 45 countries. |
| Our Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) is among the leading earthquake research organizations in the United States. |
| The Tennessee Department of Health has designated the U of M Gambling Clinic as the state gambling addiction treatment center for the West Tennessee area. |
| Our Wang Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) is the only CIBER located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region and is one of 30 CIBERs in the United States. |
| Our campus is the safest university in a metropolitan area in the state of Tennessee. |
| The University is the only institution of higher learning in Tennessee with five Centers of Excellence, state-designated academic centers that receive special funding and attract the country`s top scholars. |
| Over half the doctoral faculty in the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology are Fellows of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This designation is awarded to only about one percent of the 118,000 members of ASHA. |
| The University of Memphis is a member of the Internet2 community, working with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for the creation of tomorrow`s Internet. |
| Our audiology program is ranked 8th and speech-language pathology is ranked 13th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. |
| Our journalism department has an impressive 85 percent job placement rate for recently graduated students. |
| The Herff College of Engineering`s new undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering is the only one of its kind in the region. Residents of KY, MS and AR can enroll in the program at in-state tuition rates. |
| More than 50 judges in the State of Tennessee are graduates of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. |
| For more than a decade, the pass rate on the bar exam for graduates of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law has exceeded state averages. |
| David Evans, professor of music, won a Grammy for his album notes for Screamin` and Hollerin` the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton. |
| Coming Home, an art exhibit curated by professor Carol Crown and mounted by the University`s Art Museum, was the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Biblical Art on Broadway in New York City. |
| Hoxie, the First Stand, a film produced by communication professor David Appleby, garnered numerous awards including the prestigious Peabody Award and a duPont-Columbia Award. |
| Fogelman College of Business and Economics is ranked by Princeton Review as one of the top 10 business schools providing the greatest opportunity for minority students. |
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