The SMBHC will be holding its Ninth Freshman Ventures Retreat this Saturday, March 26 at the Oxford Conference Center. The day begins at 8:30 with a light breakfast; then at 9:00 fifteen groups will begin presenting what they learned in their travels about “What are the unspoken rules, and why are they unspoken?”
From December 11th to the 14th, 121 sophomores traveled to New York City to perform service and to experience NYC in all its holiday glory. Teams of students gave of their time in support of the Jewish Association for the Aged, the Mosholu Nursery in the Bronx, the Mosaic Preparatory School in Harlem, the YMCA […]
The Honors College is excited to host Dr. Louise Leakey at its Spring Convocation Thursday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m. in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. Leakey is a member of the famous family of paleontologists who have explored the origins of humankind since the 1930s. Dr. Leakey’s talk, “Secrets […]
Congratulations to Jake McGraw (Public Policy Leadership/Economics major) on being invited to the Finalist interviews for the Rhodes Scholarship.
A reminder that the deadline to submit the Exploratory Research form is this Wednesday, December 1. Forms are available in the lounge or on our website. Completed forms should be left with Rachel Coleman in room 302.
Senior Chelsea Caveny has won a George Mitchell Scholarship, the first University of Mississippi student to win this prestigious award. A 2010 Truman Scholar, Chelsea hopes to use the Mitchell Scholarship to earn a Master’s in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, or the M.A. in Social and Community […]
The SMBHC is proud to have alumna Keyana Mitchell Washington (biology, 2002) meet with honors students interested in medical school, public health issues, and national scholarships. Dr. Washington, a native of Clarksdale, was awarded a Truman Scholarship in 2001. She earned her M.D. from Emory University in 2006 and is a pediatrician at Gwinnett Pediatric […]
The Honors College will be hosting an open house during the Kentucky game on October 2 from 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Stop by and visit with Dean Sullivan-González, Dr. Samonds, Dr. Young, and other staff members. Honors Ambassadors will be giving tours of the building. Please come by to enjoy refreshments and see the changes that […]
Poet, social activist, and feminist critic bell hooks lunched with honors students and others at the Sarah Isom Center. Dr. hooks was this year’s Lucy Somerville Howorth lecturer, a lecture co-sponsored by the Honors College. Click here to see more pictures from the luncheon.
John McKinnon, MD, founder and director of the Montana Academy, a therapeutic school for troubled teenagers, lectures on his recent book, An Unchanged Mind. McKinnon was educated at Harvard College, Cambridge University, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, and Norwich University. Click here to see more pictures from the luncheon.