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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
December 18, 2018

Wicker’s Unmanned Maritime Systems Legislation Heads to President’s Desk

Measure Would Spur Advanced Technology Development in Mississippi’s ‘Blue Economy’ U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today praised Senate passage of his legislation, S. 2511, the “Commercial Engagement through Ocean Technology (CENOTE) Act.” The bipartisan legislation will advance the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) use of unmanned maritime systems, encourage private sector research and development, and…
News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
December 18, 2018

Ole Miss employees start first-ever campus labor union

Employees of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) are attempting to organize the first-ever labor union on campus. The “wall-to-wall” union, according to the Daily Mississippian, accepts the membership of anyone who receives a paycheck from Ole Miss. One of the leading organizers is Assistant Professor James Thomas, who recently sparked controversy by encouraging the…