News Archive

Congratulations to the honors students selected to participate in the Clinical Shadowing Program this summer at UMMC: Morgan Davis, Roya Gordji, Sara Kiparizoska, Shelby Claire Liddell, Savannah Mitchell, Ryan Sessums, and Joella Vaughnn. The students will participate with rising M2s in one or two 2-week shadowing rotations in Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, […]

Chancellor Dan Jones, Jim Barksdale, Dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez and Honors College students and faculty broke ground for the expansion and renovation of the SMBHC Friday, March 7.  To see video from this occasion, visit here. For photos of the event, visit here.

The University of Mississippi invites you to join us Friday, March 7, as we break ground for the new addition to the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.  Festivities will begin behind the deck at 10:00 am (rain location: inside the Honors College), with a reception following in the lounge.  All are welcome.

Click this link to watch progress on the expansion of the Honors College.

Junior Christine Dickason (B.A. Public Policy Leadership) has been invited to interview for the Truman Scholarship. Good luck to Christine in Nashville, March 24th!

Congratulations to Andrus and Christina Ashoo on the birth of their daughter, Ruth Ann Ashoo, on February 12th.  Great start to the SMBHC Class of 2035!

Congratulations to Jillian Cowart and Megan Smith, the winners of this year’s Barksdale Awards. These $5,000 awards, announced at the Spring Honors Convocation, support independent projects of the students’ own design. Jillian (junior, B.A. International Studies, Public Policy Leadership) will be exploring connections between local farming and local economies, comparing efforts in Senegal and the […]

On February 5th, the SMBHC welcomed Dr. Hannah Gay as its Spring 2014 Honors College Convocation speaker.  Dr. Gay, an associate professor and HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, is credited with “functionally curing” an infant of HIV.  For pictures of the event, visit here.

The deadline for Fall 2014 freshmen to apply for admission to the SMBHC is 11:59 pm CST January 15, 2014.  The Special Programs and Scholarship Application is available here.  Remember that you must first apply to the University of Mississippi before accessing the Special Programs application.  Qualified applicants who apply after January 15th will be […]

Freshmen Ventures concludes with our February 1st presentation at the Jackson Center beginning at 8:30 am. We are excited to see what the Ventures groups learned from their travels across the United States.  Participation on this Saturday event is required of all 1st year students who traveled on FV. Those who do not attend must […]