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road projects STILL under construction After adopting a Complete Streets policy, the City of Oxford is continuing its work on projects to improve pedestrian safety throughout town. BY TAYLOR DELANDRO tjdeland@go.olemiss.edu
The City of Oxford recently adopted a Complete Streets policy to create a safer city for pedestrians and has broken ground on a number of construction projects. Reanna Mayoral, assistant city engineer, said the policy’s guiding principle is to design, operate and maintain safe and convenient access and travel for all. “Basically, the city wants to provide a transportation network that meets the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists and motor vehicles,” Mayoral said. Projects are under construction to add bike lanes on both sides of the pavement and provide marked travel zones for pedestrians and cyclists on North and South Lamar, Col-
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Seeking change in diabetes care Pharmacy professor Courtney Davis highlights a program that allows more pharmacists to integrate into the clinical field to help diabetes patients. BY JONECE DUNIGAN jlduniga@go.olemiss.edu
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UM professor receives Humanities Teacher award Sociology professor Jeffrey Jackson reflects on his recent Mississippi Humanities Council’s Teacher of the Year award and the public lecture he delivered this past Thursday. BY KELTON BROOKS krbrooks@go.olemiss.edu
Jeffrey Jackson, associate professor of sociology at The University of Mississippi, was recently selected as the Mississippi Humanities Council’s 2012 Teacher of the Year. The Humanities Teacher Awards recognize the contributions of humanities faculty at each of the state’s colleges and universities. Nominations are made by the college president or humanities dean, and Jackson’s name was put forward for the award because he had previously won the Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen. “It is an honor to have one of our faculty members represented next to some of the best scholars in the state,” said Kirsten Dellinger, chair of the sociology and anthropology de-
partment. “Dr. Jackson puts his students first and works hard to spark their imaginations by drawing them into dialogues about pressing issues, including globalization, poverty and racism.” Holly Reynolds, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, also praised Jackson’s innovative style of teaching “His courses challenge students to think critically about our society,” Reynolds said. “Since he arrived at the university in 1999, more than 1,500 freshmen have been introduced to the kinds of ideas that open a new way of looking at the world.” Broadcast journalism senior Jane Ball took one of Jackson’s sociology classes this past spring. “Everything he said was influential,” Ball said. “No matter what the topic was, it was never
a dull moment.” Each recipient of the award is required to prepare and deliver a public lecture upon receiving the honor. Dellinger said Jackson’s lecture, which focused on his global South research, was a testament to his “engaging teaching lifestyle.” “As far as some of the main points, if you think about poverty on a worldwide scale, 2 billion of the world’s population is living on less than $2 a day,” Jackson said. “I was interested in exploring whether or not some of those 2 billion people live in the United States.” Jackson said he was also interested in discovering ways that poverty in wealthy countries overlaps with poverty in poor areas. “In a state like Mississippi, we are much more familiar with the reality of extreme poverty than in other places in the coun-
try,” Jackson said. “For that reason, I think we (Mississippi) are (in) a good place to be working on these issues as scholars.” Jackson said that throughout the award process, the university has been supportive of his research of the “global South.” “Chancellor Jones has said one of the things we need to do better as a university is address the problems we face in state,” he said When Jones was first introduced to the university, Jackson said he remembers him asking: “What does it mean to be a great university in a poor state?” To answer that question, Jackson said, “One of the things it should mean is that we should be providing leadership on issues that affect people in the state, people in poverty and looking for solutions in those kinds of problems.”
Clinical Assistant Professor Courtney Davis
Courtney Davis, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice at The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), is working to improve diabetes patients’ care through a national, multisite program called Project IMPACT: Diabetes. The purpose of the program, funded by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation, is to implement better diabetes care in areas that need it the most, like the Mississippi Delta. In October, Davis made a presentation at the American Diabetes Association’s fifth annual Disparities Partnership Forum in Washington, D.C., about how to integrate more pharmacists into diabetes care. Davis said she believes pharmacists bring a unique set of skills to both the clinical and the retail pharmacy arena. See DIABETES, PAGE 4