Don Hutson is coming back home - or at least, just a few hours down the road. The Corinth native and veteran health-care administrator has been named chief executive officer of the University of Mississippi Medical Center Grenada and the University of Mississippi Medical Center Holmes County in Lexington.

Searching for a meaningful relationship at the Medical Center, first-year medical student Sorsha Morris finally met her match: sleep deprivation.

Sleep deprivation in laboratory rats, that is.

This summer, Morris will embark on that particular area of research in a lab partnership arranged by a brand-new matchmaking service within the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior: the Office of Medical Student and Resident Research. 

The office caters to trainees much like an eHarmony for scientific investigations of the brain.

“When you're a first-year student trying to settle into school, having one place to go to for information about research, having that point of contact, is really helpful,” Morris said.

That point of contact is the director of the new office, Dr. Kevin Freeman, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, who pairs students with research mentors within the department, based on mutual, scientifically-related attractions.

The Medical Center is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff:

An assistant professor of plastic surgery has been appointed to an international cleft palate-craniofacial organization.