Several professors in Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Sciences and Mathematics have been awarded a NASA Inspires Futures for Tomorrow’s Youth (NIFTY) grant to hold The W Science Camp from 8 a.m. to noon July 10-14 at Plymouth Bluff Environmental Center. The camp will be for local 9- to…
Arts & Sciences
Four students have been selected to participate in the 2023 W Summer Scholars program, an initiative run by Mississippi University for Women’s Office of Undergraduate Research. They are Hailey McCool, Hailey Reel, Rie Trask and Alyssa Vernon. The Summer Scholars program, in its fifth year, is a chance for students…
Aly Vernon has an enhanced appreciation for the planning and preparation that go into a big collaboration. In 1909, President William Howard Taft visited campus. The research Vernon and Mississippi University for Women professor Dr. Erin Kempker conducted into President William Howard Taft’s visit to Columbus and the Industrial Institute…
Casey Stevens-Washington had an idea he wanted to share with everyone. Casey Stevens-Washington But Stevens-Washington was in his first year at Mississippi University for Women and didn’t know many people. The fact that he was taking 19 credit hours and had personal commitments left him little time to spread the…
The Department of Music at Mississippi University for Women will present an evening of selections from opera and musical theatre Thursday, April 20 and Friday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Kossen Auditorium at Poindexter Hall. “Our W Opera students are creative singer-actors with the confidence to make their own…
About The W
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 2,193 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.