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 […]