Six students have been selected from a competitive pool of applications to participate in the 2024 W Summer Scholar program, hosted by Mississippi University for Women’s Office of Undergraduate Research. They include Moira Cairns, Cain Petty, Zarin Raya, Anna Sandlin, Jessica Sramek and Ethan Wilkins. Summer Scholars choose a project…
Mississippi University for Women has named faculty to three leadership positions. Two are in key academic enrichment experiences for students, as the Ina E. Gordy Honors College will have a new director, and a founding director has been named for the newly created Women’s College. An additional associate vice presidency…
COLUMBUS, Miss.– Mississippi University for Women will welcome more than 100 community college students, mostly from Mississippi, and their faculty mentors for the Phi Theta Kappa Mississippi/Louisiana Regional Honors Institute June 13-15. Phi Theta Kappa is the first honor society recognizing the academic achievement of students at associate degree-granting colleges…
Linda Broadbent, Janet Estis, Camryn Johnson and Rita Felton. The W’s NSSLHA organization made a $500 donation to the to the Parkinson Voice project in memory of Mr. Al Broadbent in April. Richardson, Texas — Parkinson Voice Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the voices of people with Parkinson’s…
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, the state’s only public residential high school for academically gifted students, will be highlighted at Town & Tower’s Thursday, June 27 meeting on the campus of Mississippi University for Women. Program speakers will include Ginger Tedder, who was recently named executive director of…
Located in historic Columbus, Mississippi, The W was founded in 1884 as the first state-supported college for women in the United States. Today, the university is home to 2,227 students in more than 70 majors and concentrations and has educated men for 40 years. The university is nationally recognized for low student debt, diversity and social mobility which empowers students to BE BOLD.
Be Bold. Tower with Blue.
