Congratulations to the 2019 HALL OF FAME inductees, especially to these eight SMBHC citizen scholars: Jarvis Benson, Skylyn Irby, Jaz Brisack, Mallie Embler, Blair Wortsmith, Jacob Ferguson, Levi Bevis, and Elam Miller. For full details on all ten inductees, go here. (Photo by Jennifer Parsons)
Congratulations to Jarvis Benson, Jaz Brisack, John Chappell, Chinelo Ibekwe, and Marisa Kutchma! Benson, Brisack, and Chappell have been named Rhodes Scholarship finalists, Brisack and Kutchma have been named Marshall Scholarship finalists, and Ibekwe has been named a finalist for the 2018 Rhodes West Africa Scholarship! Grenada, MS native Jarvis Benson is studying international studies and […]
Congratulations to JAZ BRISACK, our wise and unyielding citizen scholar, who has been named the University of Mississippi’s 15th Truman Scholar. Jaz juggles political organizing while pursuing a degree in journalism, public policy leadership and creative writing. She also competes on the school’s debate team. Jaz strives to practice intersectional activism, fighting for human rights […]
This past weekend, Suad Patton Bey, Ainsley Ash, Tyler Yarbrough, Jaz Brisack, Abhijaya Shrestha, and Bailey Morton traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in March for Our Lives. SMBHC students Tyler Yarbrough and Ainsley Ash were interviewed by a local news station. We love seeing our honors students be active citizen scholars. Thanks to honors junior […]
SMBHC students Jarvis Benson, Jaz Brisack, and Allen Coon are Truman Scholarship Finalists! They will now advance to regional interviews in Nashville on March 13. The final selections will be announced on April 18. Jarvis is from Grenada, Mississippi and is an International Studies and Spanish major who plans to obtain a Master of Science […]