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Through a new agreement, Jackson Public Schools scholars will now be able to attend Millsaps College with at least half of their tuition covered. A recently signed memorandum of understanding allows eligible JPS scholars to pursue a nationally...
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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...
Like every college and university in the country and beyond, Millsaps College is facing the challenges of adapting to the restrictions brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Our students went on...
"Working together works." That's how Jeff Good describes the partnership between himself and fellow Millsaps alumnus Richard Schwartz. The two are teaming up along with other Jackson-area restaurants to...
April 21, 2020 "There's no reason to avoid trying something new. If people are working, parenting, and learning in more creative ways, the church is not absolved of this responsibility." These words from Rev....
