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Lauren Bone Noble on Dreaming Green, our Climate Change Theatre Action 2021 Event

Stage & Screen - September 24, 2021 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Lauren Bone Noble, assistant professor of movement for the actor, talks about "Dreaming Green," our part in the global event Climate Change Theatre Action 2021. For more information about Climate Change Theatre Action, please visit: http://www.climatechangetheatreaction.com/ To learn more abou...

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Materials of tomorrow to recycle materials of today

Bringing Chemistry to Life - September 22, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Lindsay Rae Taylor, Assistant Professor of Performance

Stage & Screen - September 10, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode we chat with new faculty member Lindsay Rae Taylor, who joined our department as Assistant Professor of Performance in the fall of 2021. Lindsay talks about her background, her areas of specialization, and the work she'll be doing for our department—including directing Romeo and ...

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Sustainability as an entrepreneurial choice

Bringing Chemistry to Life - September 08, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Elena Ontiveros, Performer, Teacher, and Makeup Artist, BFA 2018

Stage & Screen - August 27, 2021 14:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Elena Ontiveros graduated from our program in 2018 with a BFA in Musical Theatre and a BA in Music. Since then, she's built a very interesting caree—a mix of performance (both on stage and onscreen), teaching, and makeup design, all using a variety of skills she acquired during her time at UM. T...

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Fresh urban water

Bringing Chemistry to Life - August 25, 2021 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Great scientists look at the world around them, identify problems and think about how their area of expertise can provide a solution. This is what Jessica Ray does. In her native St. Louis, she experienced regular urban flooding and grew up familiar with the problem of managing urban wastewater....

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Lauren Ray, Educator and MTA Board Member, Class of 2009 - Part II

Stage & Screen - August 13, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Lauren Ray graduated from our program in 2009 with a B.A. Theatre Arts and French, and she's now a teacher and speech and debate coach at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, MS. She also serves on the board of the Mississippi Theater Association as the Youth Co-Vice Chair for Individual Eve...

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The charm of the forgotten elements

Bringing Chemistry to Life - August 11, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Lauren Ray, Educator and MTA Board Member, Class of 2009

Stage & Screen - July 30, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Lauren Ray graduated from our program in 2009 with a B.A. Theatre Arts and French, and she's now a teacher and speech and debate coach at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, MS. She also serves on the board of the Mississippi Theater Association as the Youth Co-Vice Chair for Individual Eve...

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Questioning the limits of Moore’s law

Bringing Chemistry to Life - July 28, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Christina Tompkins, BFA Musical Theatre, Class of 2009

Stage & Screen - July 16, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Christina Tompkins graduated from our BFA Musical Theatre program in 2009, and since then has been on stages across the country—most recently as part of a national tour of "The Sound of Music."  She was an offstage swing for that tour, and over the course of two-plus years got to perform every t...

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The chemistry of outer space

Bringing Chemistry to Life - July 14, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Madison Morrow, B.A. Theatre Arts, B.B.A. General Business, Class of 2020

Stage & Screen - July 02, 2021 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Madison Morrow graduated from the University of Mississippi with dual degrees in theatre arts and general business—in the spring of 2020, when the global COVID-19 pandemic was upending everyone's post-graduation plans. Fast forward a little over a year, and Madison has just finished the first ye...

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Rethinking catalysis

Bringing Chemistry to Life - June 30, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Dr. Allan Bailey: Applying systems thinking to the heart of family

Heart of Family Medicine - June 23, 2021 19:31 - 51 minutes
Having started his professional career as a civil engineer, Dr. Allan Bailey quickly realized that his astute problem solving and systems thinking skills could quickly be transplanted into a different sector—health care. Realizing his childhood dream, Dr. Bailey found a new path in family medici...

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John Polles, Costume Designer, Class of 2019

Stage & Screen - June 18, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode, we caught up with costume designer and BFA alum John Polles. John is currently working with the Santa Fe Opera, and he has also recently worked with the Julliard School and Baltimore Center Stage. John and I talked a lot about his work on Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, so her...

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Why do things happen where they do?

Bringing Chemistry to Life - June 16, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Allie Downs, Costume Designer and Alterations Expert, Class of 2019

Stage & Screen - June 04, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Today we're catching up with Allie Downs, who graduated from our program in 2019 with a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts, Emphasis in Design and Production focusing on costume design. Allie currently owns her own alterations business, which has given her the opportunity to tailor some pretty special garme...

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Chemistry: a modern American dream

Bringing Chemistry to Life - June 02, 2021 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Elizabeth Burrow, BFA, Class of 2021

Stage & Screen - May 21, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this episode we talked with another recent graduate, Elizabeth Burrow of Pascagoula, who just received her BFA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Musical Theatre. Elizabeth's story is pretty interesting because it opens with a twist: She had originally come to college with a totally differen...

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Catherine Long, BFA, Class of 2021

Stage & Screen - May 07, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In a continuation of our series of interviews with graduating seniors, today's episode features Catherine Long, a recent BFA graduate from our Acting for Stage & Screen program. The Georgia native knew early on in high school that she wanted to come to the University of Mississippi and study th...

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Nanometric mega-libraries

Bringing Chemistry to Life - May 05, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
For decades the pharmaceutical industry has synthesized millions of molecular entities in the pursuit of novel biological activities. These huge compound libraries have always been considered a treasure trove of potential new drugs for a plethora of new therapeutic targets. With the huge progres...

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Commit to the Bit with Gregor Patti and Keeton Landfair, Class of 2021

Stage & Screen - April 23, 2021 14:03 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Continuing our series highlighting graduating seniors, this episode features Gregor Patti and Keeton Landfair, who have an interesting perspective because they went to high school together and have now been through our BFA Acting for Stage & Screen program together. Gregor and Keeton talk about...

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Watching chemistry as it happens

Bringing Chemistry to Life - April 21, 2021 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Life is the result of an incredibly complex mix of chemical reactions, all happening at the same time, influencing each other. These apparently chaotic and incomprehensible systems are elegantly regulated at organ, tissue and even cellular and sub-cellular level. Most of these chemical phenomena...

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15 – Cathy Scrimshaw: Transitioning out of rural family practice after 30 years

Heart of Family Medicine - April 14, 2021 19:55 - 50 minutes
After more than 30 years of rural family practice and 28 years as a family doctor in the community of Pincher Creek, Dr. Cathy Scrimshaw reflects on her time in rural family practice—the significant patient relationships she’s developed over the years, what it has meant to her personally, and wh...

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Dr. Cathy Scrimshaw: Transitioning out of rural family practice after 30 years

Heart of Family Medicine - April 14, 2021 19:55 - 50 minutes
After more than 30 years of rural family practice and 28 years as a family doctor in the community of Pincher Creek, Dr. Cathy Scrimshaw reflects on her time in rural family practice—the significant patient relationships she’s developed over the years, what it has meant to her personally, and wh...

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Gianna Schuetz, Class of 2021

Stage & Screen - April 09, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Our guest today is graduating senior Gianna Schuetz, a Huntsville, Alabama native who came to the university to pursue a complicated dual degree in Managerial Finance and Theatre Arts. Along the way she got involved in just about everything she could—including nearly every departmental productio...

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Chemical computers and other tales from a theoretical mind

Bringing Chemistry to Life - April 07, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Theoretical chemistry is one of those subjects that can intimidate even the most passionate experimental chemist. Complex theories rooted in super-advanced mathematics to model a chemical bond length are not everyone’s cup of tea. Yet it does not have to be like that and it takes brilliant minds...

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The Poetic Body with Lauren Bone Noble, Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor

Stage & Screen - March 26, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Lauren Bone Noble joined our faculty in the fall of 2020 as Assistant Professor of Movement for the Actor, and in that semester spearheaded the creation of a brand new work of devised theatre called Near/Far, which was developed almost entirely by students, produced remotely, and screened online...

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Stronger magnets, stronger science

Bringing Chemistry to Life - March 24, 2021 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Since the elucidation of the DNA structure by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1951, the importance of understanding the three-dimensional structure of biomolecules has become obvious. Over the last few decades scientists have resolved the structure of thousands of complex biomolecules enabling...