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Congratulations to Bob Brown, Professor of Political Science, for receiving this year’s Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award.  Dr. Brown has taught on the Honors Freshman Seminar team since Fall 2004, and now coordinates the faculty development for these foundational honors courses.  To learn more about Dr. Brown, visit here.            Congratulations, also, to Kathryn […]

The Honors College welcomes 402 freshmen in its Class of 2019!  We saw many of you at the Honors-Only Orientation May 19-20.  Those attending one of the regular orientation sessions will have a noon lunch meeting at the Honors College on the first day of orientation; because of space, parents will have lunch with the other […]

The Honors College welcomes a record 402 freshmen in its Class of 2019!  The students hail from 28 states and 2 foreign countries, with 51% being from the great state of Mississippi.  This impressive body averages a 3.96 high school GPA and a 30.8 ACT.  We look forward to meeting all of you at an […]

We want to remind those students accepted into the Fall 2015 cohort that you must accept the offer by 11:59 pm CDT May 1.  To do so, log into my.olemiss.edu, access the Special Programs and Scholarship application, and click on Check Application Status to enter your decision.  Please note, if we have not heard from […]

Congratulations to Steven Mockler, SMBHC senior, who has won a Boren Scholarship.  Steven, also a student in the Croft Institute for International Studies and the Chinese Flagship program, was awarded the Boren to fund his Capstone year in China.

Congratulations to Bob Brown, Professor of Political Science, for being this year’s Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award.  Dr. Brown has taught on the Honors Freshman Seminar team since Fall 2004, and now coordinates the faculty development for these foundational honors courses.  To learn more about Dr. Brown, visit here.

The Honors College and the University lost one of our outstanding Honors professors, Dr. Esther Sparks, Friday evening. Dr. Sparks received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1951, and her MA and PhD from Northwestern. She was a former curator at Art Institute of Chicago and taught at various universities. Dr. Sparks […]

Congratulations to senior Megan Smith (B.S. biology, B.A. English) on winning an NSF Graduate Fellowship.  Megan, who has done research under Dr. Brice Noonan and Dr. Rich Buchholz, plans to use the Fellowship to fund her graduate studies at the Ohio State University.  Congratulations also to another NSF GRF winner, Nikki Reinemann, SMBHC alum (2012; […]

The myOleMiss portal will be unavailable beginning at 5 p.m., on Thursday, April 2 until Tuesday, April 7, at 8 a.m. due to a major upgrade. While the upgrade is taking place, the UM community will not have access to the myOleMiss portal.  All applications within myOleMiss will be unavailable during this time.  Those prospects […]

    Jordan Troisi                     Colby Woods The Honors College is happy to announce that Jordan Troisi, our Coordinator of Recruitment and Admissions, and Colby Woods (2014, B.A. International Studies, German) have been award Fulbright U.S. Student Awards. Jordan will be going to Turkey and Colby to Germany, as English […]