Millsaps News

Claire Azordegan, a junior at Millsaps College, may seem to have interests scattered in many different directions, but for her, it all fits together seamlessly. For starters, she is majoring in both Spanish and anthropology while also pursuing a minor in biology. She is a member of the Rotaract Club …

Brittany Wilson, a senior, majoring in math and creative writing, has been recognized as a semi-finalist for a Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Fulbright Program, operating in more than 160...

This achievement underscores the dedication and expertise of our students, as well as support from the previous faculty members, Millsaps alums and other members in the Millsaps community.

Millsaps students often explore partnerships between seemingly separate fields, even within their own majors. For studio arts major Mary Noble Howard, the partnership between traditional and digital arts opened the door for hands-on research through Millsaps’ honors...

Ricky James ’04 is the Dean of the Chapel at Millsaps College. He sat down with us to share his story and what made him return to Millsaps. Where are you from originally? I am from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and attended Hattiesburg High School. Where did you attend...

Millsaps College was in Connor Sutton’s plans from the get-go. Sutton, who is from Biloxi, Mississippi and attended St. Patrick’s Catholic High School, was interested in Millsaps because his mother graduated from the college. Shortly after coming to campus, he...

At the end of each fall and spring semester, Millsaps College recognizes outstanding achievement by students by naming them to the President’s Scholars and Dean’s Scholars list. The President’s Scholars List consists of those students who for the semester: Earned at...

Some people say you shouldn’t work with your spouse. Millsaps College professors Dr. Jenni Lewton-Yates and Dr. David Yates do a good job of proving that theory wrong. Lewton-Yates grew up in northeast Ohio and took Latin as a foreign language in high school. She...

The Millsaps College Board of Trustees has named Frank Neville as its 12th president following an extensive national search. Neville was unanimously selected by the 17-member search committee, which consisted of trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, and students. On...

Of the names engraved on the Founders Bell Tower at Millsaps College, Jim and Fentress Boone Waits are two of the most recent additions. Following Fentress’ death in 2019, Jim Waits made a planned gift in December 2020 to establish the Waits Scholars program, an...

Dr. Michael Pickard ’04 is an associate professor of English and chair of the English Department at Millsaps College, and also serves as Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Literature. What do you teach at Millsaps? I have taught everything from our department’s gateway...