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Undergraduate Colleges /
University of Mississippi Main Campus |
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Interesting Facts |
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- The University houses the largest blues music archive in the United
States.
- The school grows the only US government endorsed cannabis. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) contracts to the University the production of cannabis for the use in the few approved research studies on the plant as well as for
distribution to the eight surviving medical cannabis patients grandfathered into the Compassionate Use Program (established in
1975 and cancelled in February 1992).
- University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons performed the world's first lung transplant in man and transplanted the
heart of a chimpanzee - man's closest genetic relation - into the chest of a dying man.
- William Faulkner's estate, Rowan Oak,
is owned by the University. The town surrounding the campus is said to have inspired Faulkner and his imaginary Yoknapatawpha County
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Between 1970 and 1975, the number of law school graduates in the U.S. doubled! Since then, law degrees have been, by far, the most popular graduate degree. |
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