Seven honors students are Stamps Impact Prize winners for the Spring 2024 cycle! The SIP awards each recipient up to $5,000 to support a project related to the student’s passions, academics, community engagement, and/or experiential learning pursuits. From the Office of the Provost, ten winners were announced, and the seven SMBHC student recipients, their majors, faculty mentors, and project titles follow:

Ross Cohen (accountancy and PPL)/Professor Michael Barnett
Connecting the Dots; Exploring the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Arts Through Community Events

Athan Gregory (biochemistry)/Professor Jason Ritchie
Synthesis and Conductivity Behavior of mPEG-Based Electrolytes

Eron Hendrix (public health and PPL)/Professor Ashley Jones
University of Mississippi Periods in Prison Project

Abigail Hogue (mechanical engineering)/Professor Samrat Choudhury
Exploration of Graph Neural Networks for Enhanced Materials Design

Audrey Koltz (biology)/Professor Michel Ohmer
Using Artificial Reproductive Technologies to Improve Amphibian Conservation

Anna Nowell (biochemistry)/Professor Peter Zee
The Intersection of the Biological and Chemical: Genomic Resource Use Efficiency in Bacteria

Gwendolyn Pfrenger (art history and English)/Professor Jeannie Speck-Thompson
One Student’s Classroom: Mayfield’s Time at Ole Miss

Congratulations to all!

(Student pictures captured from Instagram and LinkedIn)