News Archive

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the $5,000 Barksdale Award! Martina Cotelo will travel to Uruguay to work with documents and conduct interviews that will let her write the story of her grandmother, one of the German Jews who emigrated to Uruguay to escape Nazi persecution in Germany. Billy Forrest will design a survey to […]

Jermaine Jackson, one of our freshman/sophomore honors counselors, is leaving the SMBHC to assume a position at the University of Maryland. Jermaine’s last day will be Friday, April 8. If you get a chance, please stop by his office (202) to say good-bye and wish him good luck in his new job. Thanks for your […]

Prospective freshmen who were accepted for admission to the SMBHC this coming fall have until May 1 to accept or decline the offer of admission. After May 1, any remaining spots will be awarded to students on our waitlist. To accept the offer of admission, log into your account on my.olemiss.edu. If you have any […]

Recently, honors counselor Shelley McGraw was informed that she has been chosen to be inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Birmingham-Southern College. She is one of six elite athletes chosen for this prestigious award for the year 2011. She will attend an induction ceremony and celebratory dinner at her alma mater during their […]

On Thursday, February 24th, Louise Leakey, the head of the Koobi Fora Research Project on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, spoke at the Honors College’s Spring Convocation. Dr. Leakey traced the history of discoveries into human origins made by her grandparents, Louis and Mary Leakey, parents, Richard and Maeve Leakey, and the work […]

The SMBHC will be holding its Ninth Freshman Ventures Retreat this Saturday, March 26 at the Oxford Conference Center. The day begins at 8:30 with a light breakfast; then at 9:00 fifteen groups will begin presenting what they learned in their travels about “What are the unspoken rules, and why are they unspoken?”

From December 11th to the 14th, 121 sophomores traveled to New York City to perform service and to experience NYC in all its holiday glory. Teams of students gave of their time in support of the Jewish Association for the Aged, the Mosholu Nursery in the Bronx, the Mosaic Preparatory School in Harlem, the YMCA […]

The Honors College is excited to host Dr. Louise Leakey at its Spring Convocation Thursday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m. in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. Leakey is a member of the famous family of paleontologists who have explored the origins of humankind since the 1930s. Dr. Leakey’s talk, “Secrets […]

Congratulations to Jake McGraw (Public Policy Leadership/Economics major) on being invited to the Finalist interviews for the Rhodes Scholarship.

A reminder that the deadline to submit the Exploratory Research form is this Wednesday, December 1. Forms are available in the lounge or on our website. Completed forms should be left with Rachel Coleman in room 302.