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 is now the home of a major collection of works by alumna Eudora Welty. The collection, which contains about 270 separate items including correspondence, books, periodicals, recordings and photographs, was made possible through Andy Murray Coffey and his wife Katherine and son Glenn H. Coffey, all who reside in Lafayette, La. Read the full story

Dr. Kim Whitehead, professor of English and religious studies at Mississippi University for Women, has been named the 2009 Humanities Teacher of the Year by the Mississippi Humanities Council. The award is given each year to a faculty member from each Mississippi institution of higher learning. Read the full story

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