Spring 2023 Honors Course List
Spring 2023 honors courses are available for viewing. Updates to the list will continue through Spring 2023.
Dr. Eden Tanner First to Complete Crossword
Dr. Eden Tanner, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is our Crossword Puzzle Winner! Dr. Tanner is the first person to submit all correct answers to the 2022 Honors Report’s The Crossword, and she wins a $100 Square Books gift card. FUN FACT: Dr. Tanner has a 1,336-day streak on the New York Times Crossword! […]
Recent Alumni Publish Honors Theses
Taylor Stansberry (SMBHC 21) is first author on “The interhemispheric auditory white matter tract is associated with impulsivity,” published this year in the Behavioral Brain Research. Katherine Wilson (SMBHC 21) is first author on “Disrupted functional connectivity of the primary auditory cortex in autism,” published this year in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Both women earned degrees […]
Ember Suh Selected as ToxMSDT Mentee
Ember Suh (SMBHC 23) is a 2022-2023 ToxMSDT mentee. The Toxicology Mentoring and Skills Development Training program is a one-year mentorship funded by the National Institutes of Health, and mentees “are matched 1:1 with mentors primarily from industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations.” As part of the program, Ember will meet her mentee cohort at UC-Davis […]
2022 Honors Report
The 2022 Honors Report is out! Thank you to everyone who contributed to another successful issue of celebrating our citizen scholars!
Three Honors Students Awarded Annexstad Scholarships
Incoming honors freshmen Brady Bass, Destiny Kirksey and Manjot Nagra are recipients of Annexstad Family Foundation’s scholarships. Read the full story by visiting Ole Miss University of Mississippi News.
ONSA: Calendar of Events and Workshops
The Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA) supports and advises students applying for a select number of competitive national and international merit-based awards. These awards offer life changing opportunities where academic excellence, leadership, and active communal engagement are valued and nurtured. This is not just a gateway to undergraduate and graduate school funding, but an […]
Honors Student Publishes Hon 102 Essay
Sophomore Amy Nyary has published in Persona y Bioética, a Colombian scientific journal. Her paper, La belleza de la Casa (The Beauty of the House), “explores the theme of personality as it relates to Susanna Clarke’s novel Piranesi,” a text she read and wrote about in Professor William Berry’s Hon 102 class last spring. Amy […]
IHL Approves Ethel Scurlock as SMBHC Dean
Dr. Ethel Scurlock is our new Dean! From Provost Wilkin: “I am pleased to announce that Dr. Ethel Scurlock has been appointed to serve as the next dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College (SMBHC). In addition to being Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Dr. Scurlock currently serves as […]
Brunch in D.C.
On June 11th in Washington, D.C., Dr. Ethel Young Scurlock (far left) and Dr. Vivian Ibrahim (far right) had a wonderful time engaging with honors alumni and staff during brunch in The Hamilton. (Photo by Scott Thompson)