After more than seven outstanding years of service, Dr. Limbert announced today that she plans to retire at the end of June 2010, when her current contract ends. "My MUW family has taken me on a fantastic journey and for that I will always be indebted to them. Looking back on our work together, I am truly honored and humbled to have been a part of it all," said Dr. Limbert. Read the full story.

A leader, who believed in equality to the depths of her soul, Sallie Eola Reneau, at just 18 years of age, began the fight to establish a state college that was not just for the Southern elite, but was a place where “the indigent and the opulent” could acquire “the imperishable riches of a well cultivated mind.” To read the full biographical sketch of Sallie Reneau, click here

Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Campus Recreation had its Red Shirt Drill Week Nov. 9-13. Red Shirt Drill Week is used as a tool to help evaluate campus recreation’s student staff on how they handle emergency situations. Sprained ankles, physical altercations, heart attacks, spinal injuries, drowning and allergic reactions are examples of the emergency situations that were staged. Read the full story

Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Music and Theatre will present “A Christmas Pudding” by David Birney on Thursday, Dec. 3 and Friday, Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Cromwell Theatre. This is a Christmas celebration told in songs, stories, poems and tales by Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Shaw, Longfellow, St. Luke and many others collected with a host of familiar and some not-so familiar carols and holiday songs. Read the full story

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