JESS COOLEY is our 2020 Barksdale Award winner! Jess has won $5,000 to travel the Chiquitanía in Bolivia on motorcycle. The Chiquitanía is an arid forest in eastern Bolivia that serves as Bolivia’s natural barrier against global warming, and recently suffered devastating fires as did the Brazilian Amazon and the Australian bushlands. From August to October […]
Congratulations to English major and honors senior Jacob Ferguson! From the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History’s website: Jacob Ferguson is the winner of the 2018-2019 Franklin Riley prize for best undergraduate paper for his work on “Paternalism and Property Rights in the Slaveholding South: F.A.P. Barnard’s Trial at the University of Mississippi, White Southerners, […]
The SMBHC hosted this year’s SEC Honors Deans Meeting. During March 7-9, honors deans, directors, and administrators from twelve SEC schools discussed honors in higher education issues ranging from mental health initiatives to minority and diversity engagement. During a break from the meetings, the SMBHC accompanied its guests on the Double Decker bus for a […]