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Nikki Reinemann, chemical engineering and chemistry, was recently named as a Goldwater Scholar. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship is an award given to the most outstanding young research scientists, engineers and mathematicians in the country. Nikki has been performing original research in Dr. Nathan Hammer’s spectroscopy lab. She has published a paper, as first author, […]

Taylor Cook, Public Policy Leadership and Spanish, is a 2012 Udall Scholar. The Udall Foundation awards 80 undergraduate scholarships to students committed to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care. Taylor has championed the implementation of Green Fund on campus and helped to empower other sustainability leaders in our […]

Martin Ducote, senior mechanical engineering and German Language Initiative student, was recently selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Martin is using the grant to travel to Germany for the 2012–2013 academic year and further his passion for the development of automobiles. He will study automotive engineering at the Institut für Fahrzeusystemtechnik (FAST) at the […]

SMBHC alum Marie Wicks has won the title of Miss Mississippi. She’ll be representing the state at the Miss America pageant in January. Marie graduated in May with a B.A. in International Studies and a B.A. in French, with a chemistry minor. Her Honors/Croft thesis, defended in 2011, was “Swing Into Action: The Political and […]

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).