Step into the world of Camp MRI — that’s Medical Readiness Initiative — hosted right here on the beautiful Millsaps College campus! This exciting, hands-on event brought high school students together with Millsaps faculty, staff, students and...
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Brittany Wilson Receives Fulbright Award
Millsaps College is pleased to announce that senior Brittany Wilson has earned an esteemed Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant for an English teaching assistantship in Taiwan for the 2024-2025 academic year....
Millsaps Hosts Data Summit April 9-11
As part of its ongoing commitment to stay on the cutting edge of business demands and prepare students to be career-ready, Millsaps College will host a data summit, April 9-11. The Millsaps Data Summit...
Millsaps Approves New Majors and Master’s Programs
In alignment with our vision to produce informed, creative-thinking and versatile citizens who are career-ready, Millsaps College recently expanded its curriculum by approving six new majors for...
Dave Woodward aka Chef Dave Millsaps Executive Chef
It has been said that an army runs on its stomach. The same can be true for a college. Fortunately, Millsaps has Dave Woodward at the helm of its food services. His journey, from roaming the grounds of...
‘Random’ Passions Become a Profession at Millsaps
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...
Brittany Wilson Named Semi-Finalist for Fulbright Award
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...
Millsaps CFA Research Challenge Team Wins Mid-South Competition
The Millsaps College Chartered Financial Analyst Research Challenge Team recently flexed their financial analysis skills by taking home top honors in the CFA Institute Research Challenge Mid-South Competition...
Trusting the Process in Arts Research at Millsaps
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...
Nine Questions with Ricky James
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,...
History at Home and Abroad with Millsaps
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...
President’s Scholars and Dean’s Scholars Lists for Fall 2023
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...
A Classic Love Story: Millsaps Edition
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...
Millsaps College Names Frank Neville as its 12th President
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...
Waits Scholars Program Provides Legacy for Students
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...
Nine Questions with Dr. Michael Pickard
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...
2023 Millsaps Homecoming and Family Weekend!
Get ready for Homecoming! On October 20-22, we will welcome alumni to campus for Homecoming weekend. Alumni, faculty and staff are encouraged to register for weekend events here. Student events are planned...
Finding New Experiences at Millsaps and Abroad
Millsaps College was an easy choice for Abigail Smith. Smith, a senior at Millsaps, grew up in Florence, Mississippi, and transferred to the college after starting her college journey at Meridian Community...
Making Magic at Millsaps
Most people bristle when the word “mold” comes up in conversation. Images of walls covered in black spots or inedible bread are often the first to come to mind. For papermaker and Associate Professor of Art...
From Law to Politics, Millsaps Builds a Strong Foundation
Over the course of the past 10 years, Millsaps College has seen a rapid growth in students pursuing degrees in government and politics and using their skills to begin careers in a broad range of pursuits...
National Geographic Documentary Highlights Yucatán Research
Millsaps is recognized as having one of the best study abroad programs in the country, and a new National Geographic series will document work being done by Millsaps College faculty and students in Yucatán,...