| Friday, August 14, 2026 |
| Breakfast Club to brew up tech ideas | |
 | A new monthly networking group will bring entrepreneurs, investors and technology enthusiasts together in Oxford to share ideas and explore opportunities for developing new businesses. The Oxford Breakfast Club will hold its first meeting at 9 a.m. on Aug. 22 at mTrade, located at 200 South Lamar Court. The group will meet one Saturday each month, with breakfast provided by mTrade. Led by mTrade CEO Bill Rayburn, the club is not an mTrade initiative but is intended to provide a welcoming environment where participants can discuss and refine ideas, particularly those involving application software and agricultural technology. The effort grew from discussions with Sen. Nicole Boyd about "growing our own" companies and jobs locally. Organizers also plan to draw on mTrade leadership, community members and colleagues from Mississippi State University as mentors and resources. |
| Southern Miss alumna Keisha Green earns Southeast Emmy Award | |
| For Keisha Green, earning a Southeast Emmy Award is more than a career milestone. It is a reminder of the journey that began at The University of Southern Mississippi and the experiences that helped shape her career in television. Green earned a bachelor's degree in the School of Media and Communication's broadcast journalism program and a minor in marketing in 2020. She recently received a Southeast Emmy Award for her work as producer of The Best of Late Night with Rita Brent and currently serves as a creative services producer for Gray Media, primarily working with WLBT and Fox40 while also assisting with projects for WLOO. Green traces much of her success back to her time at Southern Miss. Through Southern Miss TV, leadership in the Southern Miss Association of Black Journalists and opportunities to create original media projects, she gained the confidence to pursue a career in television. |
| The Academic-Integrity Council Can't Keep Up With AI | |
 | When Lindsay Waldrop signed on as chair of Chapman University's academic-integrity committee for the 2025-26 school year, she imagined the role might be a slog. After all, she was the only volunteer for the position. What she didn't expect was a time commitment so demanding that it barred her from completing research -- and the emotional toll of a heightened caseload that left her exhausted after most work days. The culprit? Artificial-intelligence use, driving a 400% increase in academic-integrity cases at Chapman since the pandemic. Waldrop said she saw lots of confusion among students about whether and how they were allowed to -- or supposed to -- use AI, as well as anxiety among professors who thought they'd caught AI cheating but didn't know how to prove it. "I didn't have a lot of answers for that as chair of that committee," she said, "because I don't think there are a lot of answers right now." She isn't alone. AI cases have overwhelmed academic-integrity committees at colleges across the country, leaving professors and administrators scrambling over how to prove -- and punish -- misuse. |
| Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Harvard University | |
 | A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that accused Harvard University of turning a blind eye to harassment of Jewish students. The decision from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said President Donald Trump's administration failed to prove an ongoing violation of federal civil rights laws. The judge said the lawsuit, filed in March, mostly focuses on incidents that took place in the 2023-24 academic year, with a few from March 2025. The cases were "too isolated and episodic" to prove a persistent civil rights violation at the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the judge said. The lawsuit accused Harvard of failing to protect Jewish students during pro-Palestinian demonstrations that roiled the campus after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. The Trump administration argued Harvard officials did nothing as Jewish students were "harassed, physically assaulted, stalked, and spat upon." |
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