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Chiedozie Ibekwe (2012, B.S.in Electrical Engineering) has won the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.  Dozie, who has been working for General Electric since he graduated, plans to earn his MPhil in Public Policy at Cambridge.  With that degree, he hopes to become involved in international development consulting and policy advisory, with particular attention to developing policies to […]

Come enjoy Bruce Levingston and a cast of all-stars Friday night, March 27 at 7:30 pm at the Ford Center.  Mr. Levingston’s concert will include a number of his good friends in the area including the brilliant poet Beth Ann Fennelly and novelist Tom Franklin, legendary writer and journalist Curtis Wilkie as well as …are […]

Fall 2015 course lists are now available as hard copies in the SMBHC lounge and on the web.

      Congratulations to our 2015 Barksdale Award Winners:  Joe Bell and Kate Lindsay!  Joe will be spending time with cowboys (California or Colorado) and gauchos (Uruguay), learning what happens to men and to myths when modernization infringes on the frontier.  Kate will travel to Washington, New York, and Los Angeles to explore ways that Deaf […]

My, how time flies.  Our ground-breaking ceremony was March 7, 2014.  Watch this short video to see the progress this past year.

Bruce Levingston, pianist (Sono Luminus DSL-92183) Death and rebirth are the themes of this deeply personal, exquisite album. The pianist Bruce Levingston brings heart-wrenching vulnerability and tenderness to a series of preludes, fugues and fantasies by Bach that form the spiritual nucleus of the CD. Read more. (New York Times, ArtsBeat March 4, 2015)

The Honors College congratulates those applicants accepted for our Fall 2015 freshman class.  This group has a record average ACT of 30.8 and an average high school GPA of 3.96.  Students hail from 34 states and two foreign countries.  Those accepted to join the entering freshman class of citizen scholars at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale […]

The end of February is an exciting time, as those high school seniors who applied by our regular deadline will be notified soon of our admissions decisions. Decision e-mails will go out by Friday, February 27, with letters to follow.  Please know that as we process the decisions this week, it will be difficult for […]

The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College welcomes Bruce Levingston, our own Chancellor’s Honors College Artist in Residence, at our Spring Convocation Tuesday, February 10 at 7:00 pm at the Ford Center.  Mr. Levingston will be bringing some well-known figures from the world of cinema to discuss and perform scores for films from the past and present.  […]

Freshmen Ventures concludes with presentations by the ventures teams Saturday, February 7th at the Jackson Avenue Center beginning at 8:30 am. We are excited to see what the Ventures groups learned from their travels across the United States.  For a story on one of the Freshman Ventures teams, click here. Participation in this Saturday event […]