| The FedEx Center for Supply Chain Management is the only center in the U.S. devoted to industrial/academic collaboration for research in cycle time issues. |
| All academic buildings on the main U of M campus have wireless Internet access. |
| The University of Memphis awarded more than $27 million in scholarships for the 2007-08 academic year. |
| Craig Leake, U of M assistant professor of film, won two Emmys for his documentary about teachers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Chemo Ate My Homework won awards in the categories of best documentary/topical and best director/non-news. The U of M was the only university to win in two categories. |
| Dr. Marian Levy, associate professor and director of the Master of Public Health program at the U of M, received the 2008 Ruby R. Wharton Outstanding Woman Award in the area of race relations. |
| Cary Holladay, associate professor of English at the U of M, has won the Miami University Press novella contest sponsored by Miami University of Ohio. Holladay’s work of fiction was chosen from more than 150 entries. She has received numerous honors, including the Goodheart Prize, the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, and the O. Henry Award.
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| The Handbook of Marketing Research: Uses, Misuses and Future Advances, co-edited by Dr. Rajiv Grover, dean of the U of M Fogelman College of Business & Economics, has received the Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice. |
| The U of M Law School ranked 5th nationwide as a Best Value Law School by PreLaw Magazine based on the combination of high bar pass rate, high employment rate, and low tuition. |
| U of M Law School professor Ernie Lidge is currently serving as a Reporter for the Tennessee Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. The committee is engaged in a major project that will result in recommendation for revisions of the Tennessee ethical rules. |
| U of M Law School professor Chris Zawisza was appointed by Justice Clark to the Tennessee Supreme Court Dependency Court Improvement Task Force. They are drafting proposed revisions to Tennessee’s juvenile laws. Zawisza also serves on other commissions concerning juvenile law. |
| Janet Richards, U of M Law School professor, recently completed her one-year term as chair of the Association of American Law Schools section of Family Law. Richards was also appointed to a three-year term on the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Advisory Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. |
| 97.3% of 2006 Law School graduates seeking employment were employed nine months after graduation (compared to a national rate of 93%). |
| The Tiger Spirit Squads brought home two National Championships for 2008, winning top honors in two of its three divisions for the first time in school history. The all-girls squad won its second National title in the All-Girls division and the dance team earned its second consecutive National title in the Hip-Hop division. |
| The University of Memphis' Child Development Center received a special note of appreciation from the NACCP and is an officially accredited Three Star Center. Recognition has been given for its positive teacher and child interactions and teacher training. |
| The rehabilitation counseling master's degree program in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research was ranked in the top 20 nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 2007.
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| The University of Memphis received more than $54.2 million in external funding for research in 2006-07. |
| The academic credentials of students enrolled in the Honors Program are impressive. For the incoming Honors freshmen in Fall 2007, the average ACT score was 28 and the average high school GPA was 3.86. More than 20 percent of the freshmen scored 30 or higher on the ACT. |
| With over 1,200 participants, the Honors Program now is in its 35th year. |
| Our graduate program in discrete mathematics and combinatorics was ranked one of the top 15 programs nationally by U.S. News and World Report. |
| The University of Memphis is home to the only Confucius Institute in the southeast United States. Confucius Institutes are funded by the Beijing-based Office of Chinese Language Council International. |
| Former University of Memphis golfer and native Memphian Tom Stickney was recognized by Golf Magazine in 2007 as one of the top 100 teachers in America. |
| Dr. Richard C. Warder, Jr., dean of the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007. |
| Dwayne Scott, associate dean of students for judicial affairs at the University of Memphis, was selected to participate in the 2007 Maxine Smith Fellows Program of the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), the governing body for 47 universities, community colleges and technology centers throughout the state. |
| A team of students from the University of Memphis won the 2006 Tennessee Valley Authority Investment Challenge, an innovative partnership between TVA and 25 universities in its service territory that provides a real world learning experience in portfolio management. |
| The University of Memphis’ Master's of Arts in Liberal Studies – Strategic Leadership degree received the Distinguished Program Award for credit programming at the Association for Continuing Higher Education Region VII Conference in 2007. All classes are offered at the University of Memphis Jackson Center on the Jackson State Community College Campus. |
| Craig Leake, assistant professor at the University of Memphis, won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award for his documentary, The Chemo Ate My Homework, about a group of school teachers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. |
| University of Memphis Provost Ralph Faudree was awarded the 2005 Euler Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for his contributions to mathematics. |
| During the 2006-2007 school year, the University of Memphis Up 'til Dawn program raised more than $141,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The U of M is the top Up 'til Dawn fund-raising school in the nation, with 150 campuses participating in the program. |
| The University of Memphis has raised more than $700,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since the Up 'til Dawn fund-raising program was implemented in 1999, making the U of M the largest collegiate contributor to St. Jude ever. |
| The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology is home to the largest public collection of Egyptian antiquities in the South. |
| The Up 'til Dawn fund-raising program for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded at the University of Memphis in 1999. Since that time, the program has spread to more than 180 campuses nationwide. |
| The U of M has 24 Chairs of Excellence, more than any other university in Tennessee. A Chair of Excellence is a state-designated, definitive authority in his or her field of study. |
| The clinical psychology program is number eight in the nation in federal research and development funding. |
| The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have designated the U of M as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for 2006 through 2009. |
| Over 95% of students visiting Student Health Services report that they were seen by a doctor or nurse practitioner within 30 minutes. Also, nearly 100% of students report that they would use Student Health Services again. |
| Each semester over 100 U of M students provide volunteer note taking services to fellow students with disabilities. Their generosity helps the University keep costs down, while providing quality accommodations to disabled students. |
| The Communication Department's Rhetorical Studies Ph.D. is ranked in the top 15 nationally by the National Communication Association. |
| The University of Memphis Student Health Services is the only primary care facility in Memphis with digital radiology. |
| Researchers with the U of M Intelligent Security Systems Research Lab are using their knowledge of how the body fights viruses to help computers create systems that will fight computer viruses. |
| The Herff College of Engineering's Center for Advanced Sensors is the recipient of a $1.2 million federal grant. |
| The University's public relations program is rated one of the 23 premier public relations programs in the country by respected educator Bill Baxter. |
| Each year, the Center for Research in Educational Policy evaluates hundreds of different national and local education reform programs to determine what is working in K-12 schools. |
| Researchers in the U of M's Institute for Intelligent Systems are developing intelligent computer tutors that are currently helping students learn physics and reading strategies. |
| Our Center for Earthquake Research and Information is conducting research in 140 stations throughout the southeastern United States and five other countries. |
| University of Memphis students can choose to study abroad at 165 institutions in 45 countries. |
| Our Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) is among the leading earthquake research organizations in the United States. |
| The Tennessee Department of Health has designated the U of M Gambling Clinic as the state gambling addiction treatment center for the West Tennessee area. |
| Our Wang Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) is the only CIBER located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region and is one of 30 CIBERs in the United States. |
| Our campus is the safest university in a metropolitan area in the state of Tennessee. |
| The University is the only institution of higher learning in Tennessee with five Centers of Excellence, state-designated academic centers that receive special funding and attract the country's top scholars. |
| Over half the doctoral faculty in the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology are Fellows of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This designation is awarded to only about one percent of the 118,000 members of ASHA. |
| The University of Memphis is a member of the Internet2 community, working with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for the creation of tomorrow's Internet. |
| Our audiology program is ranked 8th and speech-language pathology is ranked 13th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. |
| Our journalism department has an impressive 85 percent job placement rate for recently graduated students. |
| The Herff College of Engineering's new undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering is the only one of its kind in the region. Residents of KY, MS and AR can enroll in the program at in-state tuition rates. |
| More than 50 judges in the State of Tennessee are graduates of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. |
| For more than a decade, the pass rate on the bar exam for graduates of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law has exceeded state averages. |
| David Evans, professor of music, won a Grammy for his album notes for Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton. |
| Hoxie, the First Stand, a film produced by communication professor David Appleby, garnered numerous awards including the prestigious Peabody Award and a duPont-Columbia Award. |
| Coming Home, an art exhibit curated by professor Carol Crown and mounted by the University's Art Museum, was the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Biblical Art on Broadway in New York City. |
