LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Far and wide, the sounds of celebration echoed the halls of Philander Smith University Sunday honoring a monumental moment in U.S. history. As part of the celebration, performers like Alma Brown & the A-One Gospel Singers celebrated Juneteenth. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center hosts annual Juneteenth event Brown’s impromptu concerts started back […]
The mother of a University of Southern Mississippi football player who was found fatally shot in his car this week said he would call her every day after practice to check in and that he had no known enemies. Adrian Jackson said in an interview Thursday that she didn’t know why anyone would kill her […]
Tommy’s Pizza, a mainstay of life at Ohio State University since Earle Bruce’s first year coaching the Buckeyes, has announced plans to close. “It has been a pleasure serving multiple generations of families and students alike,” the restaurant has stated on its website. A manager for the University District pizzeria, at 174 Lane Ave., confirmed […]
Earlier Thursday morning the University of Florida received an unexpected visitor — and no, it wasn’t a Florida Gator. A bear was spotted in a tree across from the UF Cancer and Genetics Research Complex on Mowry Road Thursday morning, prompting agents from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to arrive on scene. […]
Utah’s flagship university is set to firmly position itself downtown after a $38-million purchase. The University of Utah’s board of trustees on Tuesday signed off on the purchase of City Centre — a 238,000-square-foot building at the northeast corner of State Street and 400 South. Along with the building, the acquisition also includes 1.85 acres […]
Police in Mississippi are investigating the fatal shooting of a University of Southern Mississippi football player at an off-campus apartment complex. Marcus Daniels Jr., 21, was found unresponsive in his vehicle by Hattiesburg Police Tuesday night at the Ivy Row apartments. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Wednesday that they hadn’t identified […]
Tommy’s Pizza, a mainstay of life at Ohio State University since Earle Bruce’s first year coaching the Buckeyes, has announced plans to close. “It has been a pleasure serving multiple generations of families and students alike,” the restaurant has stated on its website. A manager for the University District pizzeria, at 174 Lane Ave., confirmed […]
Oklahoma City University and the Oklahoma City University School of Law on Tuesday announced the formation of a new institute for the advancement of tribal sovereignty. The OCU Tribal Sovereignty Institute will be housed at the Oklahoma City University School of Law in downtown Oklahoma City, with the aim of producing scholarship on the topic […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The University of Cambridge has repatriated more than three dozen traditional artifacts to Uganda in a major act of restitution welcomed by the local officials who sought them. Some of the objects were shown exclusively to AP journalists on Wednesday. The British university returned the 39 items, which range from tribal […]
A racist message containing an offensive slur was found scrawled on the balcony of an off-campus University of Arizona student apartment in Tucson on Monday, according to a post on X. An X user shared the image of the racist phrase written above a student apartment window at The Mark Tucson apartment building shortly before […]
The University of Minnesota paused the hiring of a professor who wrote that Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7 was “a textbook case of genocide” to head the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), Jewish Insider has learned. The pause, which has not yet been publicly announced by the […]
NEW CONCORD – Thirty-six students from 21 high school are participating in a summer high school music theater camp June 16 to 22 at Muskingum University. They will be showcased a public performance at 2:30 p.m. June 22, at Caldwell Hall on campus, The production will include 15 scenes from a variety of Broadway musicals. […]