OXFORD, Miss —
A University of Mississippi professor has died after complications with COVID-19.
Officials say Kevin Malloy, an instructor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, is the university's first death from COVID-19. He had been with Ole Miss since 2006.
Malloy, 67, died on April 16 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford.
The school's provost says Mallloy was kind and a respected colleague.
He leaves behind his daughter Amanda, and his wife Rhona, who is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Film.