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Lambuth History and Archives

This guide includes information about The University of Memphis Lambuth Campus history, links to digitized Lambuth archive collections, and information about historical items located in the Lambuth Archives.

2020 - 2029

January 2020 

The UofM Lambuth Nursing Program adds one of the world’s first augmented reality childbirth simulators with integrated physiology, the CAE LucinaAR – it is the first of its kind in West Tennessee.

February 2020 

The Glisson family establish the Shelby Glisson Memorial Scholarship at UofM Lambuth in support of nursing students who had to overcome medical adversities prior to enrolling in the Loewenberg College of Nursing – the endowment fund honors Shelby Glisson, who died in 2016 after complications due a rare lung condition. Jackson-Madison County School System Board, City of Jackson, Community Redevelopment Agency, and Madison County Commission finalize plans to build the new Madison Academic High School on the U of M Lambuth campus as a dual-enrollment high-school.

June 2020 

UofM Lambuth establishes the John Edwin Yarbrough Scholarship to benefit students in health sciences/services, the first scholarship of its kind at UofM Lambuth; the Tennessee Chapter Y of P.E.O. International Sisterhood of Jackson, TN, endows the G. G. Brady Scholarship for women majoring in education at UofM Lambuth.

Fall 2020 

UofM Lambuth sees record enrollment of 1,324 students, a 23 percent increase from Fall 2019 – a growth of 538 percent since UofM Lambuth opened in Fall 2011.

August 2020 

UofM Lambuth Music and Entertainment program receives a $250,000 gift from Wes Henley, Perkins’s guitar player.

October 2020 

UofM Lambuth establishes the Carl Perkins Scholarship for students in the Music and Entertainment program.

November 2020 

Adam Johnson, UofM Lambuth Assistant Director of Recruitment and Enrollment Services, is appointed president elect of the Tennessee Association of College Registrars and Admission Officers.

December 2020 

UofM Lambuth creates the Dr. Timothy F. Goldsmith Scholarship Fund to support psychology students who wish to pursue a career in youth services.