Congratulations to our newly elected Honors Senate members: Student Director Tommy Steis Assistant Student Director Jessica Tran Senior Senators Mary Kathryn Barry Hunter Myers Will Nowell Lizzy Pitts Junior Senators Sarah Brouckaert Jacqueline McGrath Alexis Miller Grant Wichman Sophomore Senators Hannah Hoang Kayla Lovitt Simmy Vig Jordan Watts
Eight of ten students recently inducted into the Hall of Fame are members of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Congratulations to Acacia Santos, Yujing Zhang, Alex Martin, Chase Moore, Austin Powell, Miller Richmond, John Brahan, and James Roland Markos! Read the full story here. Photo by Robert Jordan, UM Communications
The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College opened its new and renovated building to Jim and Donna Barksdale, Chancellor Vitter, Interim Provost Wilkin, and other dignitaries on Thursday, March 30. Read about the momentous afternoon here.
SMBHC senior Kathryn James recently won a Phi Beta Kappa writing internship. Read about Kathryn’s win here. Congratulations, Kathryn!
Students from Barksdale Fellow Ashleen Williams’ Hon 102 classes enjoyed a full spread of Ethiopian food at Derae Restaurant in Memphis. Derae offered a full menu, complete with desserts and tea, and taught the students how to eat the food. The students seemed to enjoy the goat meat the best. Thanks to Williams for encouraging […]
Senior SMBHC students Heather Poole and Sarah Sutton presented posters at “Posters in the Rotunda” in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 23, 2017. Keller, Texas native Heather Poole presented Improving Health of Rural Mississippians through Farmers’ Markets. Heather will graduate in May with a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics. Her faculty mentor is Dr. David H. […]
Congratulations to the honors students selected to participate in the Clinical Shadowing Program this summer at UMMC: Mary Grace Bass, Alex Fratesi, Ty Higginbotham, Mikayla Johnson, Sam Palmer, Will Rieger, Will Sistrunk, and Adryanna Tucker. The students will participate with rising M2s in one or two 2-week shadowing rotations in Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, […]
SMBHC senior Olivia Davis has been awarded a 2017 Fulbright US Student Program English Teaching Assistantship to Greece. Olivia was born in Montgomery, Alabama, but grew up in different cities and states throughout the south and went to high school in Jackson, Mississippi. She will graduate this May with a bachelor’s degree in English, with […]
Last night’s Honors Convocation with Live Cinema, Rooftop Films and Bruce Levingston wowed our brains and pressed our hearts! THANK YOU to those in attendance last night; you are the core and light of the SMBHC! Fascinated by Brent Green’s words? Explore his narration writings by clicking here. Discover more about Sam Green here. Check […]
The Barksdale is an award of $5,000 to enable students to undertake projects they have dreamed up, planned out in some detail, and now are ready to implement on their own, if they just had some money to make it happen. That’s why our single criterion is “Make us jealous.” The chance to fulfill a […]