The SMBHC and ONSA are thrilled to announce SEVEN University of Mississippi Boren recipients! Boren Scholarships provide up to $25,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. BOREN RECIPIENT 2021: Brantley Damon is an Arabic major with minors in Teaching […]
All ten students of the 2020-2021 UM Student Hall of Fame are members of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Congratulations to Shelby D’Amico, Victoria Green, Asia Harden, Swetha Manivannan, Joshua Mannery, Harrison McKinnis, Gianna Schuetz, Robert “Cade” Slaughter, Madison Thornton, and Robert Wasson. #CitizenScholars (Photos courtesy of students pictured)
The Office for National Scholarship advisement is thrilled to announce that Ivy Li and Austin Wallace have been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater is one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in STEM. It supports exceptional sophomores and juniors who show promise in becoming the next generation of research leaders in […]
Hello, Madam President! Congratulations to the 2021-2022 ASB President Morgan Atkins (SMBHC 22) along with the many other honors students elected to the Associated Student Body. Click here for a full list of election results. (Photo of Morgan Atkins by Ashley Mills)
A list of honors course offerings for the Fall 2021 semester is posted here.
The Office of National Scholarship Advisement is delighted to announce that two University of Mississippi seniors have been awarded the Yenching Fellowship. Lennis Barlow and Matthew Travers are both seniors in International Studies and Chinese and members of the Honors College. Barlow is also completing a minor in Environmental Studies, and Travers a minor in […]
From the Honors Senate: HoCo Merch has officially dropped. Check out what we have to offer here: Long Sleeve T-Shirt Short Sleeve T-Shirt Quarter Zip Jacket Bucket Hat Merch will be coming down on March 2nd at midnight.
We have bittersweet news. This month, Anthony Heaven is embarking on a new adventure as Associate Director of Development for the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. As he successfully has done at UM, Dr. Heaven will serve as a philanthropic connector helping to engage donors and co-create opportunities of impact. Dr. […]
Stamps Scholar and SMBHC student Violet Jira has secured a 2021 Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship. “The Aspen Young Leaders Fellowship (AYLF) accelerates leadership development as well as fellows’ understandings of how to effectuate change individually and collectively both in and outside of systems. Each year, 30 fellows ages 18-22 are selected from each locality based […]
On Thursday, March 25th, at 7pm we will welcome Ray Mabus as our 2021 Honors Spring Convocation keynote speaker. On the morning of the event, a link to the Zoom webinar will be shared via email to our students and will be posted to our SMBHC alumni account on LinkedIn. All are welcome. Ray Mabus […]