Hooks Institute Student Success Program Awarded Grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis

Feb 21, 2025 | Campus News, Grants and Funding Announcements

Feb. 21, 2025 — On Jan. 13, the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis was awarded a Capacity Building grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis in support of the Hooks Academic Achievement and Mentoring Initiative...

University of Memphis Maintains Top-Tier Carnegie R1 Status

Feb 13, 2025 | Academics & Research, Campus News, Education, Faculty Achievements, Faculty and Staff, Latest News, Research, University Leadership

Feb. 13, 2025 — The University of Memphis has kept its distinction as a Carnegie R1 institution by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, maintaining its place among the top research universities in the nation. The Carnegie Classification has...

UofM Provost Testifies Before House Committee on Homeland Security

Feb 6, 2025 | Campus News, Education, Latest News, New Academic Programs, University Leadership

WASHINGTON (Feb. 5, 2025) — In a hearing Wednesday before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, University of Memphis Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Dr. David Russomanno provided expert testimony on solutions to overcoming America’s...

Applications are open for new open-source investigative reporting master’s degree

Feb 4, 2025 | Academics & Research, Campus News, Grants, New Academic Programs

Feb. 4, 2025 — Applications are now open for an innovative new graduate program in open-source investigative reporting. The new concentration in open-source investigative reporting in the master of arts degree in journalism and strategic media at the University of...

UofM Receives $4.9M Grant from the Mellon Foundation

Jan 13, 2025 | Academics & Research, Campus News, Grants, Grants and Funding Announcements, Research

Funds to Support Paid Internship Program for Undergraduate Humanities Majors  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Jan. 8, 2025) — The University of Memphis received a $4.9 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a paid internship program for undergraduate humanities and...

UofM Researchers Awarded Prestigious NIH Grant for Innovative Wearable Health Monitoring Device

Nov 14, 2024 | Academics & Research, Grants

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 — University of Memphis researchers recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for their work creating an innovative wearable medical device, CanAiry, designed to monitor environmental exposure and assess respiratory...