Senior Barksdale Fellow Ashleen Williams has been named the 2022 IHL Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion winner and a 2021-2022 Diversity Innovator award winner. From an article on the latter: She serves as co-chair to the First-Generation College Student Task Force, a higher education adviser to the Mississippi College Access Project and an adviser to […]
Dr. Scurlock, Dr. Parsons, Professor Williams, Honors Senate Director and Honors Ambassador Taylor Thompson, SMBHC First-Gen Student Network President Andy Flores, and Executive Director of Project Powerful and Honors Ambassador Jilkiah Bryant attended the 56th National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Parsons presented with a colleague from the University of […]
On November 14th, Dr. Thomas, Professor Williams, and Dr. Heaven joined SMBHC students Charlotte Armistead, Azurrea Curry, Nya Thompson, Alana Mitias, Harrison McKinnis, Nakiyah Jordan, Nathan Beasley, Taylor Love, Jaylin Jones, Izzy Furr, Fernando Arellano, Noah Watts, Chandler Douglas, and Bella St. Amant (SMBHC ’20) in Ecru, MS for a day of service in partnership […]
Read our most recent Honors Report, and discover what some of our SMBHC students, alumni, faculty, staff, and supporters have been doing for the past year! Special thanks to all those who made this year’s Honors Report come alive: Stefanie Goodwiller, Benita Whitehorn, Caroline Abide, Kent Ford, Asia Harden, Austin Howard, Julia James, Kathryn James, […]
Senior Barksdale Fellow and PhD student Ashleen Williams has won the 2020 Tennin-Alexander Prize for the best graduate paper in history. From the University of Mississippi’s Dalrymple III Department of History: “Oh Men of Justice! 20th Century Political Petitions in Bahrain and a Negotiated Nation,” Williams’s winning paper, was written under the direction of Professor […]
Thanks to SMBHC students Liza Boyer, Leah Davis, Trip Johnson, and Jordan Watts for representing the honors college at the National Collegiate Honors Council conference in New Orleans! Liza and Leah joined Senior Barksdale Fellow Ashleen Williams and Associate Dean Jennifer Parsons for a panel presentation on collecting credentials and imposter syndrome. Williams, ONSA Director […]
The 2019 Honors Report has arrived! TAKE A LOOK! Special thanks to the following: Stefanie Goodwiller, Jennifer Parsons, Benita Whitehorn, Yasmeen Adbo, Ainsley Ash, Devna Bose, Brittany Brown, Sariyah Coleman, Eveanne Eason, Jacob Ferguson, Nakiyah Jordan, Swetha Manivannan, Liam Nieman, Ellie Smith, Jessica Tran, Kristen Vise, John Michael Walker, Arielle Wallace, Kevin Bain, Thomas Graning, […]
Honors sophomore Mitchell Palmertree has been selected to be a Mount Vernon Leadership Fellow! Mitchell is a public policy leadership major from Winona, Mississippi, and after participating in the Sunflower County Freedom Project in the summer of 2018, he was inspired to work on creating a similar program in Winona. “The Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows […]
The third and final Mississippi Water Security Institute just returned to Oxford after a week on the Mississippi Gulf Coast meeting with different stakeholders on issues of water security, use, and management. Many thanks to gracious hosts from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Unabridged Architects, the Wolf River Society, the GCRL Marine Education Center, […]
Students from Barksdale Fellow Ashleen Williams’ Hon 102 classes enjoyed a full spread of Ethiopian food at Derae Restaurant in Memphis. Derae offered a full menu, complete with desserts and tea, and taught the students how to eat the food. The students seemed to enjoy the goat meat the best. Thanks to Williams for encouraging […]