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At Millsaps, building meaningful relationships with alumni and supporters is a constant priority. As part of that commitment, Chandler Parker MacDonald has been promoted to Major Gifts Officer in the Office of Institutional Advancement. Her new...
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Homecoming weekend will look a little different this year as we celebrate virtually! There will be four different events broadcast on the main Millsaps College Facebook page and we encourage you to join us...
On a bright Tuesday afternoon in late September, a group of Millsaps College students wandered into the woods along Panther Creek in Madison County, Mississippi. Led by Dr. Will Selman, assistant professor of...
When Brenna Macnamara started her first semester at Millsaps College, she ended up in two classes that she credits for helping her become the student and scholar she is today. The first was an upper-level...
When Dr. Rob Pearigen began his tenure as president of Millsaps College in 2010, he expressed a desire for the college to have a chapel space that inspired spiritual reflection and formation, and that...
Bob Woodward, long-time Washington Post journalist and author of “Rage,” will be the featured guest in an online webinar hosted by Millsaps College and the Mississippi Center for Investigative...
“Millsaps is about the connections we make in life,” said Megan James, “in stories, in art and allowing those connections to help us see the world in revealing ways.” For James, those connections have helped...
The experience of holding a tarantula in the Arizona desert was a critical point in Lacie Newton’s career trajectory. So was the experience of studying with Dr. Brent Hendrixson, professor of biology at...
There’s an art to managing a museum, and the Mississippi Museum of Art benefits from six Millsaps alumni overseeing the everyday details of its operations. Betsy Bradley (’84), Leslie Kennedy (’90), Jana...
Nearly 40 years ago, Glenn Terry graduated from Millsaps College with a degree in accounting. This year, he’s back on campus to earn another degree as he pursues his master’s in accountancy and prepares for a...
Efforts by two professors from Millsaps College to lead a comprehensive study and analysis of the Mississippi Lunatic Asylum in Mississippi’s history and the memory of Mississippians will be supported through...
Voters Consider Options for Raising New Revenue; Presidential Race Now in Single Digits Mississippi voters would like lawmakers and state leaders to safeguard public education dollars in the face of a massive...
Emily Ingebretsen graduated from Millsaps in 2009 with a degree in political science before pursuing a master's degree in international affairs and economics at the New School in New York City. Today, the...
Dear Millsaps College community, Less than a month ago I stood—virtually—in front of our 2020 graduates for a Commencement ceremony and discussed order and disorder. World events during the weeks leading up...
Lily Dorian graduated from Millsaps College on May 9, 2020, and less than two weeks later she was awarded a 2020 Dianne Komminsk Scholarship through the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance (MSA). Dorian was one of...
The number of Millsaps College students who have received Fulbright awards continues to grow. Recent graduate Mary Austin Willis has been selected for a Fulbright award, with plans to serve as an English...
Millsaps College has selected Beth Clarke, current senior executive director of admissions strategy and counseling at Sweet Briar College, as vice president of enrollment. Clarke will lead the admission and...
For Dr. Alan Jones, 2020 has been a year of incredible challenges and professional accolades. Jones, a 1994 graduate of Millsaps College with a degree in biology, serves as chair and professor of the...
College prepared to support all forms of classroom instruction beginning August 24, 2020 May 13, 2020 Although Millsaps College students spent the last month of the 2020 spring academic term utilizing remote...
While the student presentations submitted as part of this year's Honors Research Conference demonstrated the usual academic excellence of Millsaps students, they weren't the distinguishing component of this...
"Art impacts everything." That statement is front and center on the website for Paint Love, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that works with youth experiencing poverty and trauma. With the impact of a global...
