As a first step to creating an interest group/community of UM scholarship and service pertaining to the Mississippi Delta, all UM employees with active projects, ideas, or capabilities of relevance to the Mississippi Delta are invited to share these via this linked survey: http://uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bgzIz1qFsg6NMJ7. All survey respondents will be invited to participate in getting acquainted meeting in September, added to an online discussion community, and engaged in planning a UM mini-conference on the MS Delta.