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The Honors College held its 2012 Commissioning Ceremony Friday, May 11 at 4:00 pm in the Ford Center. Mariel Parman provided the Welcome Speech, Taylor McGraw delivered the Keynote Address, and Kely Markley concluded the ceremony with a Charge to fellow students. During the ceremony, Chancellor Jones presented medallions and Thesis Advisors presented stoles to […]

We realize that not all of our incoming students were able to attend the Honors Orientation session on May 24–25. If you were unable to attend, we recommend registering for one of the first four general sessions. Please visit  http://www.olemiss.edu/orientation  to see all Freshmen Orientation dates. If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Upshaw, […]

SMB Honors students work as “detectives” over Spring break at the Folger library in Washington, DC! Check out this fascinating story about the Lazarus Project and Shakespeare’s alleged signature! See http://zing.olemiss.edu/shakespeares-signature-analyzed/.

We congratulate the inaugural group of honors students selected to participate in the Clinical Shadowing Program this summer at UMMC: James Howard Evans, Mary Ball Markow, Ann Marie Mercier, Natalie René Phongam, Kathryn Janeanna Shell, and Candice Ashton Walters. The students will participate with rising M2s in one or two 2-week shadowing rotations in Anesthesia, […]

This is a reminder for those students who are graduating by Summer 2013 that you should submit a completed Senior Thesis form by April 2. This will be around the time you are registering for fall classes, so it will be good to line up the research/thesis course you will be using in the fall. […]

We want to remind you that the Sophomore Petition is due April 1. You will submit the Petition on-line. All you have to do is log into my.olemiss.edu, click on the Academics tab, and select the Sophomore Petition. Be sure to use Internet Explorer or Firefox (Google Chrome and Safari don’t work well with my.olemiss.edu).

An SMBHC honors college study abroad program at Hertford College, Oxford University is going to be offered this summer from the 24th of June until the 21st of July. Students will be able to study for a 3-hour Honors course credit in a variety of subjects for the first three weeks, and will conduct an […]

Two groups tied for first place, the Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans group (Sean Higgins, Casey Stanford, Murray Miller, Austin Wheeler); and SOME in Washington, DC (Ehlana Stell, Phillip Waller, Chip Adkins). They will enjoy a “City as Text” visit to NYC with Broadway for their fine performance! Photos of the winning groups can be found […]

Students recently admitted to the Honors College may accept the Offer of Admission through the MyOleMiss interface online. After logging in to your account via my.olemiss.edu, find the drop down menu on the left of the page (it is right under “Portal Favorites”). Select “Special Programs and Scholarship Application” from the menu. On the Special […]

Cara Thorne, sophomore biochemistry major, and Yi (Ena) Wei, sophomore pre-pharmacy major, are the winners of this year’s Barksdale Awards. Cara will spend this year working to build a basic ability in Mandarin Chinese and, in May 2013, will go to New York City to volunteer with the Chinese Community Partnership for Health Program. Planning […]