Honors junior Nikki Park wrote about her experience in May as a participant of the Misssissippi Water Security Institute. Read Nikki’s article in The Clarion-Ledger here. Students of the MS WSI listen as Martin Locke of the US Department of Agriculture’s National Sedimentation Laboratory points out some of the ecosystem remediation efforts being tested around […]
Check out the time-lapse video of the SMBHC’s new addition! Go here to experience the journey from start to finish. Dean Douglass Sullivan-González (right) and Associate Dean John Samonds check out the progress from up high. March 2015
The SMBHC Commissioning ceremony took place on May 13th at the Gertrude C. Ford Center, where almost 200 SMBHC graduates received their stoles, medallions and certificates. Read John Yi’s Welcome, Maia Cotelo’s Address and Sara Kiparizoska’s Charge here. Congratulations to all of this year’s graduates!
The Honors College welcomes a record 476 freshmen in its Class of 2020! The students hail from 27 states and 1 foreign country, with 57% being from the great state of Mississippi. This impressive body averages a 3.97 high school GPA and a 31 ACT. We look forward to meeting all of you at an […]
Gerard Buskes is the 2016 Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Dr. Buskes is a professor of mathematics and teaches sections of Hon 101 and 102. Congratulations to Dr. Buskes!
SMBHC junior Grace Sullivan has won a prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarship. She is the University of Mississippi’s third Udall winner and looks forward to using the scholarship for her graduate studies in social work. Read more about Grace and her surprise win here, and learn more about the Udall and other major scholarships by […]
James DeMarshall is a junior Chinese Language and International Studies double major from the Greater Philadelphia Area. He is also pursuing a minor in Mathematics. The South Jersey native recently was awarded one of the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to spend this upcoming summer studying abroad in the city of Xi’an […]
Professor of Law and Mitchell, McNutt and Sams Lecturer John Czarnetzky has received the University of Mississippi’s prestigious Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teaching Award. Czarnetzky was the first law professor to teach Hon 101 and 102 at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Read about Czarnetzky and his well-deserved honor here.
Congratulations to SMBHC seniors Hunter Gabbard and Maggie Hall! They have both won the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and will be traveling to Germany in the fall. Hunter is a physics major who recently participated in an extraordinary publication that proved Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves. Maggie is an international studies and German double-major who has […]
Congratulations to the honors students selected to participate in the Clinical Shadowing Program this summer at UMMC: Brandon Clausen, Jordan Colbert, Zane Coleman, Betsy Crosswhite, Kelsey Hillhouse, Tracey Le, Miller Richmond, Nick Roy, Jessie Smith, and Cal Wilkerson. The students will participate with rising M2s in one or two 2-week shadowing rotations in Anesthesia, Emergency […]