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Millsaps College Welcomes New Trustees

Cord Campbell, Monty Hamilton, David Loper and The Rev. Cary Stockett are the newest members of the Millsaps College Board of Trustees. They completed their orientation and were formally welcomed during the...

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Marissa Brown: Nothing Can Stop Me

After Marissa Brown toured what she refers to as “the most mesmerizing campus in Mississippi,” she left with a promise of a work study job from then head football coach Aaron Pelch and thoughts of a career in...

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The Best Place to Start My Plans

It was love at first sight for Onyx Magno. “I visited Millsaps on a track and field visit, and fell in love with the atmosphere,” said Magno. Now, working as a Presidential Ambassador in the admission office,...

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Millsaps Homecoming–At Your Home

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...

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No Walls in this Classroom

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...

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Learning About Something You Love

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...

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To Engage and To Pause

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...

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About the Connections

“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...

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Changing the Trajectory

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...

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The Art of Managing a Museum

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...

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Back to School

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...

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“My Work is All COVID, All the Time”

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...

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Millsaps College Builds on Fulbright Record

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...

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