TIGER PRIDE University of Memphis President M. David Rudd helped lead a research team that received the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) Research Accomplishment Award (Academic Team) for 2014. The College Database recognized the University of Memphis as the top college in Tennessee for students interested in military service. UofM faculty include Emmy, Grammy and Peabody award winners, in addition to Fulbright recipients. The University of Memphis received the 2014 Education Group of the Year Award from Lifeblood. This award recognizes total annual donations as well as increases from year to year. The Loewenberg College of Nursing has among the largest BSN and MSN programs at a public university in Tennessee. Graduates consistently score high on licensure exams, and several classes have scored 100 percent. The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology is home to the largest public collection of Egyptian antiquities in the Mid-South. Our Center for Earthquake Research and Information maintains a 144-station seismic network throughout the southeastern United States for earthquake monitoring, and conducts scientific research on all continents of the world. 44 2016-17 UofM FACT BOOK
The Tennessee Department of Health has designated the UofM Gambling Clinic as the state gambling addiction treatment center for the West Tennessee area. The Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is the only doctoral degree-granting music school in the state of Tennessee and within a 300-mile radius of the city of Memphis. More than 50 judges in the state of Tennessee are graduates of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Based on low tuition and high passage rates on the Tennessee Bar exam, the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law is ranked nationally in preLaw magazine’s “best value” category. The law school also has the top-ranked law school facility by preLaw Magazine. The Communication Department’s Rhetorical Studies Ph.D. program was ranked in the top 15 nationally by the National Communication Association. The University of Memphis is consistently ranked one of the safest large campuses in the state of Tennessee. The Campus School at the University of Memphis has been recognized as one of the highest achieving schools in Tennessee, with 99 percent of its students scoring proficient or advanced in both reading and math.
The UofM was named to the first President’s Honor Roll in 2006 for Distinguished Community Service with distinction for hurricane relief service. It has been honored every year since then. More than half of the doctoral faculty in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders 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. Each semester more than 200 UofM 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 Center for Information Assurance (CfIA) has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA). The center is committed to community cyber security research and to community education concerning this crucial issue.