Ole Miss Athletics has added experience and energy to its leadership with the hiring of Derek Cowherd as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Academic Support, as announced Thursday by Provost Morris Stocks and Director of Athletics Ross Bjork.

Cowherd comes to Ole Miss from LSU where he most recently served as Director of Academic Affairs, a position he held since April 2011.  Prior to that position, he was the Interim Director of Academic Affairs for the Tigers and had been a member of LSU’s Academic Center for Student-Athletes since July 2007.

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The RMS Titanic, the world largest ship, sank April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. The accident claimed the lives of over 1,500 passengers. April 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the famed Titanic.  The 1997 Titanic movie, which won 11 Academy Awards and starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, has been rereleased in 3-D in time for this centennial.

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Early registration is now open for the 2012 St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend to from Nov. 29-Dec. 1.  More than 17,000 participants are expected for the annually sold out event that benefits St. Jude, where the world’s sickest children receive the best care at no cost to their family.