Congratulations to our 2023 Barksdale Award Winner CLARK ETZEL! A public policy leadership major minoring in English, Spanish, and economics, Clark will use his $5,000 award to spend a portion of this summer in Italy studying the public policies of cultural heritage preservation at six cultural heritage sites. Clark anticipates using his time abroad as […]
Tomorrow, February 5th, Anh Hoang, Olivia Maurer, Kaden Spellman, and MyKayla Williamson will present their research at the Mississippi Honors Undergraduate Conference! The virtual conference is available for all to stream here. We are proud of our SMBHC citizen scholars! Anh HoangLC-MS Identification of Serum Proteins Adsorbed onto Ionic Liquid-Coated NanoparticlesThesis Advisor: Dr. Eden Tanner, […]
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 JESSICA TRAN, who has been named Miss Ole Miss! Among her many leadership roles, Jessica is the Student Director of the Honors Senate, and she is the President of UM Active Minds, which inspired her campaign platform of promoting better education on mental health issues and providing more accessibility for those needing mental […]
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 […]
University of Mississippi student body president Austin Powell has been named a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Powell is a senior from Corinth, Mississippi with a double major in public policy leadership and philosophy and a minor in business administration. He is a member of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Powell will travel to […]