Apr 23, 2025 | Alumni, Alumni Spotlights, Campus News, Latest News
Dr. Jane Howels Hooker (BSEd ’68, MEd ’69) is a pioneer in women’s sports. She spent summers playing sports at Cliff Davis Park and competed in the YWCA’s Y-Teen basketball program because women were not allowed to compete on official teams at the time....
Apr 22, 2025 | Alumni, Alumni Spotlights, Campus News, Latest News
Bertha Rogers Looney (BA ’78, MA ’06) is a trailblazer. When she and seven other African American students walked onto the University of Memphis (then Memphis State University) campus in the fall of 1959, they became the first African Americans to...
Apr 21, 2025 | Alumni, Alumni Spotlights, Campus News, Latest News
Cortney Richardson is a distinguished community leader, business owner, pastor, gospel singer and songwriter. He is proud to have been recognized as a “Weapon of Mass Inspiration” in the local community. Richardson graduated from the University of Memphis...
Apr 15, 2025 | Alumni, Alumni Spotlights, Campus News, Events, Latest News, Trending News
April 15, 2025 ̶ ̶ ̶ The University of Memphis is proud to celebrate esteemed alumni and friends at the 42nd Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by Lowe’s, on Saturday, April. 26 at the Maxine A. Smith University Center. The welcome reception and cocktail hour...
Nov 8, 2024 | Alumni Spotlights, Students
Friday, Nov. 8, 2024 — The Office of First-Generation Student Success (OFGSS), First Scholars, UofM TRiO Programs and Opportunity Scholars at the University of Memphis held the sixth annual Sapphire Awards on Thursday night, celebrating, honoring and recognizing...
Oct 25, 2024 | Alumni & Giving, Alumni Spotlights
Glenn Rogers, Sr. Street Dedicated to Player Who Helped Integrate Tigers Athletics in 1968 Oct. 25, 2024 — Glenn Rogers, Sr., who helped integrate the Memphis Tigers in 1968 as the first Black football player at then-Memphis State, was honored today, with an official...
