Henry Outlaw

Professor Henry Outlaw holds a doctorate in Pharmacology from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and was long time chair of the Physical Science Department at Delta State University.  He was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida Medical School, visiting professor of pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Fellow-in-Residence in the School of Theology at the University of the South and John Templeton Fellow in Science and Religion at Oxford University. He has expanded his scope to teach courses in the expected area of chemistry to include forensic science, delta history and culture, the Mississippi river, science, literature and religion and civil war medicine. With the aid of grants from the Mississippi Humanities Council he has collected oral histories, artifacts, and documents related to the Emmett Till murder and developed an travel exhibit that has won national attention. For this work he received the Chairs Award  for Special Achievements in the Humanities.