Congratulations to the SMBHC Faculty Summer Stipend Competition Winners!

SUSAN ALLEN
Political Science

BOB BROWN
Political Science

JAMES CIZDZIEL
Chemistry and Biochemistry

BRIAN FOSTER
Sociology and Southern Studies

NAEEMUL HASSAN
Computer and Information Science

ALEXANDRA LINDGREN-GIBSON
History

DEBORAH MOWER
Philosophy

JAMES M. THOMAS
Sociology

TIMOTHY YENTER
Philosophy

Looking ahead to 2020 and the opportunities/challenges of a quickly changing world, we know we need visionaries who can focus on what is true and what is important. We need citizen scholars whose vision for the future is 20/20. Below are the course titles selected for the 2018 summer stipend course development awards of $5,000 each. A full description of these honors courses will be made available when they are offered sometime over the next two academic years.

Faces of Poverty, proposed by Dr. Allen; Politics in a Post-Truth Age, proposed by Dr. Brown; Modern Environmental Chemistry: Engaging Global Contaminants and Current Issues, proposed by Dr. Cizdziel; Mississippi Jukebox: A Masterclass on Interviewing and Storytelling, proposed by Dr. Foster; Natural Language Processing in Python, proposed by Dr. Hassan; Food: A Global History, proposed by Dr. Lindgren-Gibson; Care Ethics and Social Policy, proposed by Dr. Mower; The Color Line in the Twenty-First Century, proposed by Dr. Thomas; and Honors Philosophy of Film, proposed by Dr. Yenter.