June 2021 News Releases
- Wednesday, June 30 -
UofM opens $31 million R. Brad Martin Student Wellness Center and Plaza
The University of Memphis held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday morning for its $31 million R. Brad Martin Student Wellness Center and Plaza. The two-story facility is located at 3735 Southern Avenue, adjacent to the $18 million Hunter Harrison pedestrian cable bridge and $18.5 million, five-story, 1,140-space parking garage.
- Thursday, June 24 -
UofM’s Hooks Institute welcomes Richard Saunders as visiting scholar to research Fayette County Civil Rights Movement
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute is pleased to welcome Richard Saunders as a visiting scholar for Summer 2021. As a visiting scholar, Saunders will conduct research on the Fayette County Civil Rights Movement, including conducting video interviews with people close to the movement and collecting manuscripts and other primary materials related to the movement. Saunders’ work as visiting scholar began in June 2021 and will end in August 2021.
- Thursday, June 17 -
UofM’s Hooks Institute Announces Inaugural Academic Research Fellows
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change created the Hooks Academic Research Fellows with the goal of increasing the Hooks Institute’s research capabilities and interconnectedness with faculty working in civil rights across the nation. Serving for two years, Fellows assist the Hooks Institute in fulfilling its mission of teaching, studying and promoting civil rights and social change, and in becoming a premier center for scholars working on race and social justice scholarship.
See the Hooks Academic Research Fellows >
- Tuesday, June 15 -
University of Memphis Awarded $1.89M Health Workforce Grant
The University of Memphis has received a four-year, $1.89 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Behavioral Health Workforce, Education and Training (BHWET) Program to establish the INTEGRATE program – Interprofessional Teams Grounded in Apprenticeship, Telehealth and Evidence.
- Monday, June 14 -
University of Memphis to Launch Online Master of Nonprofit Management in Fall 2021
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently approved a new online Master of Nonprofit Management (MNM) at the University of Memphis. The program, which will launch this fall, is the first of its kind in the State of Tennessee and the Mid-South region, giving students the option to specialize in social justice or fundraising and philanthropy.
Read about the Master of Nonprofit Management >
- Thursday, June 10 -
UofM’s Hooks Institute to Host Critical Race Theory Virtual Discussion on Facebook
Live
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute will host an online discussion on the importance of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in academic, education and activist studies. The event will be live-streamed on the Hooks Institute’s Facebook page June 22 from 6-7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
- Wednesday, June 9 -
Laird Veatch title revised to Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
at the University of Memphis
Laird Veatch’s title has been revised to Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Memphis, UofM President M. David Rudd announced Wednesday. Veatch was named Director of Athletics at the UofM on Aug. 9, 2019, and began on Oct. 1, 2019.
University of Memphis and Meharry Medical College Launch PECIR Program, Driving Research
Collaborations
In accordance with this effort, the University of Memphis and Meharry Medical College created the Program to Enhance Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research (PECIR). The purpose of PECIR is to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, team-based research that involves investigators from Meharry Medical College (MMC) and the University of Memphis (UofM).
- Tuesday, June 3 -
UofM to lower fees, slightly raise tuition for FY 2022
It was approved for a 1.75% in-state tuition increase and a 5% increase in the out-of-state tuition premium. The UofM had not previously raised tuition in four of the last eight years.
View all updates from Wednesday's Board of Trustees meeting >
- Tuesday, June 1 -
University of Memphis Biological Sciences Faculty Published in High-profile Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
Research published by an international team of researchers in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., shows that global cooling and glacial-interglacial cycles have been key drivers in diversification of one of the world’s most geographically-isolated groups of insects — ectemnorhinini weevils.