What can one do to break the dull isolation of quarantine? Here’s my proposal: Go play Dungeons & Dragons.
Column: How Dungeons & Dragons can help players escape isolation
Video Story: Brack leads Ole Miss Esports organization
Ole Miss Esports President Sergio Brack is a natural leader who puts everything into his organization, helping student players compete in a variety of events and projects to pave a victorious path in a competitive esports environment.
Columns: COVID-19 gets real when your mother works in healthcare
My mother works as a nurse navigator for a north Georgia hospital. Every day, she is calling patients and revealing to them their coronavirus test results, comforting those who are positive and celebrating with those who are negative.
Column: Stay home and stay safe so we can all yell ‘Hotty Toddy!’
With all of this happening, forcing me to stay in my Mississippi hometown, it makes me relish all that I have taken for granted these past years leading up to this – like all of the friendships I have made in just a few short months, or all of the sporting events that kept me on the edge of my seat.
Content creator works behind the scenes for Ole Miss Rebels
Szabo does much more daily with the football team than just making videos. He helps support the coaches upon request, helping with technical and XOs digital (film database) problems that come up. He also instructs student video staff workers about what they should do daily and how each station needs to be filmed.
Column: The impact of COVID-19 on my life
I first heard about the coronavirus while talking about current events in my journalism class about two months ago. At the time, I thought it wasn’t a serious issue and that it would go away within the next few weeks. Obviously, I was wrong about that.
How data analytics has changed the Ole Miss Baseball Team
Ole Miss Assistant Baseball Coach Carl Lafferty needed someone on staff with a strong discipline in baseball analytics to coach players at a higher level than ever before. This is where Chris Goudoras, director of operations and analytics expert, found his role.
As the world grows more health conscious, businesses like Herbalife remain popular because of social media
Many businesses today use the power of technology as their primary platform for product sales, advertisement, and communications. Nutrition companies, such as Herbalife, have created the national trend of selling their products exclusively through independent distributors.
UM students Zoom into online learning during COVID-19 pandemic
University of Mississippi students and teachers are adjusting to a new way of life and learning as classes have Zoomed online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UM mechanical engineering students are shaping the future with technology
University of Mississippi mechanical engineering students are shaping our future with technology by creating coding programs that help business save money and track production, and researching the creation of nanobots that may someday save lives.
Mississippi entrepreneurs use social media to market their merchandise
Brewster is just one example of many Mississippi entrepreneurs who use Instagram to market their merchandise. Instagram and other social media sites have become a new marketplace for small businesses.
Oxford antique stores sell unique items in challenging tech times
Oxford antique stores hold many treasures that you have to see in person to appreciate, but they face challenges competing with online shopping and websites like Ebay and Etsy.
Local electricity cooperative plans to offer fiber-optic internet service to 24,000 North Mississippians
North East Mississippi Electric Power Association has a new project in the works that will provide high-speed, fiber-optic internet service to 100 percent of its members.
Column: Why I want to become a professional photographer
Later, I became obsessed with the idea that one day I could have a job that I could travel the world and just take pictures of everything that held beauty. I think it is a really beautiful thing when someone can look at a picture and feel something emotional towards it.
Visit the Black Mirror Project education website to read student science fiction stories about media and technology
Are you a fan of “Black Mirror?” University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media students enrolled in one section of JOUR 101 have a “Black Mirror” themed class that envisions the future of technology and media after learning about its history.
Rebel Radio shines spotlight on local musicians with new weekly program
Rebel Radio, the University of Mississippi-run radio station that airs live from the Student Media Center at Ole Miss, offers students an opportunity to become radio DJs and host their own shows. They recently created a weekly program that will shine a spotlight on Mississippi musicians.
