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Alumni Spotlight: Brittany Wilson

McMullan Writers Workshop alumni, Fulbright Scholar & Museum Educator Before Brittany Wilson graduated from Millsaps College, won a Fulbright Scholarship, and taught English in Taiwan, she was a rising high school senior attending the McMullan...

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Feeding the Front Lines

"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...

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Innovating to Maintain Community

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....

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Dealing with the Side Effects We Don’t See

April 16, 2020 Just a few years ago, Taz Watson was a top running back for Millsaps, finishing the 2016 season with 644 yards and 14 touchdowns. He graduated in 2017 with degrees in neuroscience and cognitive...

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From the Phone Line to the Front Line

April 13, 2020 As a physician assistant with an internal medicine group at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Gwen Baer ('99) usually spends her days working directly with patients who come through her...

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A Balancing Act

April 7, 2020 For Anne Rollings Waldrop, dealing with the coronavirus presents a delicate balance in her practice of medicine. Waldrop graduated from Millsaps in 2012 with a degree in biochemistry before...

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Keeping the Connection

April 2, 2020 Coming on the heels of Mardi Gras, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting Louisiana hard, with the state becoming one of the most heavily impacted in the nation. In the midst of this, the Rev. John...

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The Doctor You Call for More Information

March 27, 2020 For Emily Landrum, the importance of working on the front lines as a primary care physician is a family (and Millsaps) tradition. Her grandfather, Leonard Brandon, graduated from Millsaps in...

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Flatten the Curve

Sarah Elizabeth Scales only graduated from Millsaps in 2018, but she's putting her biochemistry major to good use as a student in the Masters of Public Health program at the Mailman School of Public Health at...

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Walking Away with the Win

This past fall, Millsaps College seniors Vajresh Balaji and Bineyam Tsegaye traveled to Baltimore to compete in the MedHacks "hackathon" at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and walked away with a win. MedHacks is...

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Important Message from President Rob Pearigen

Dear Members of the Millsaps Community, I am writing to you at the beginning of a new calendar year and a new semester to bring you up to date on important developments at Millsaps and to share a few...

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Bringing Music to Life

Listening, analyzing, and discussing music from the Renaissance to the present—it sounds like a basic music theory class, but not at Millsaps College. During the spring 2020 semester, students will be...

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The Science of Art

Abed Haddad spends his days working with treasured works of art in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Haddad, a 2014 graduate of Millsaps, is The David Booth Fellow in...

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