We have good news! After a nationwide search and from a competitive applicant pool, we are happy to announce VIVIAN IBRAHIM as the Director of Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA). As she served as Interim Director over the past year, Dr. Ibrahim will continue overseeing nationally competitive scholarship and fellowship opportunities by encouraging students […]
The Office of National Scholarship Advisement and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College are delighted to announce that CHARLOTTE ARMISTEAD has been named a 2021 Rangel Fellow. Charlotte, who comes from Mooreville, MS, is a senior at the University of Mississippi. She is a joint major in International Studies and Arabic completing a minor in […]
The Office for National Scholarship Advisement is thrilled to announce that JAX DALLAS and WILLIAM MEADOR have been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship! Jax Dallas (left) and William Meador The Goldwater is one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States. It identifies and supports […]
Congratulations to Fulbright ETA winners Ty Gill and Bethany Fitts! Ty, an honors senior linguistics, Spanish and classics major from Saucier will teach in the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program in Spain. Bethany, an honors senior English major from Tupelo, also received a teaching assistantship to the Czech Republic. The highly selective program enables college […]
English major and 2018 Barksdale Award winner Bethany Fitts has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to the Czech Republic. Congratulations, Bethany! For more information on the Fulbright ETA, visit here. Interested in applying? Contact the Office of National Scholarship Advisement. Bethany Fitts
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]