News Archive

Congratulations to Ryan Ezelle, a student in international studies and Spanish, who will be returning to the Dominican Republic for the 2013-2014 academic year to serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant.  Stay tuned for a full story about Ryan and how he has developed a passion for teaching.  Read more here.

The Honors College welcomes 357 freshmen in its Class of 2017!  The students hail from 23 states and 1 foreign country, with 62% being from the great state of Mississippi.  This impressive body averages a 3.94 high school GPA and a 30.2 ACT.  We look forward to meeting these students at the Honors Orientation May […]

Congratulations to the seven students who will be representing the SMBHC at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil: Madeleine Achgill ’17, Maia Cotelo ’16, Vera Gardner ’17, Jessica Hiskey ’16, Jenn Miller ’16, Stephanie Trippel ’16, and Matt Williams ’14.  You can check out their video and website submissions here.

Congratulations to the UM faculty who won summer stipends to support development of new honors courses. Hilary Becker, Mercer Bullard, John Czarnetzky, Vivian Ibrahim, Clifford Ochs, Timothy Yenter, and Alan Arrivée are this year’s recipients.

Congratulations to Hannah Gay, UMMC pediatrician and Honors Program graduate (1976), who has been named to TIME’s Top 100 List for 2013.  Dr. Gay orchestrated a breakthrough in HIV treatment by treating a new-born with anti-HIV drugs hours after it was born.  The child has not exhibited any signs of HIV and is off any medications.  […]

The Lazarus Project makes news again!  Members of the Honors College’s Lazarus Project class traveled to Vercelli, Italy, over Spring Break to study ancient texts at the Capitolare Library, including the Vercelli manuscript (10th century) and a Globe Map (12th century). To read more about their experience, click here.  Also, check out this news story […]

The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College has extended our offers of admission, and notified by letter those we have waitlisted or declined. For those we have accepted, please notify us of your decision by May 1; refer to the acceptance e-mail you received for instructions on how to accept or decline the offer of admission. […]

The end of February will be an exciting time, as those high school seniors who applied by the January 15 deadline will be notified of our admissions decision by March 1st. Please know that as we process the decisions later this week, it will be difficult for us to return phone calls or e-mails. Early […]

Adam Blackwell, junior Public Policy Leadership major, has been named a Finalist for the Truman Scholarship.  Adam will be interviewing in Nashville on March 27th.  Congratulations, Adam, and good luck!

The competition to join Team Barksdale-World Cup 2014 is now open!  This will be a team of four SMBHC students who will travel to Brazil in June/July 2014 to be witness and participant when the world arrives for the FIFA World Cup.  The SMBHC will select those students who show they are ready – for […]