Julia Mortyakova, chair of the Department of Music at Mississippi University for Women, has been awarded a $5,000 Performing Arts Fellowship award from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Dr. Julia Mortyakova The fellowship is a portion of the more than $1.7 million in grants and fellowships MAC awarded in Fiscal Year…
Mississippi University for Women students who recently graduated from the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program in spring 2025 achieved a 100% licensure exam pass rate and 100% job placement rate. Of the graduate students who received their master’s degree in the spring, all secured job placement before graduation…
With any large undertaking, there is always a “why.” For Bernesha Mclemore, graduate nursing student at Mississippi University for Women, her reason for everything is her autistic son. “The reason that I want to step away from bedside nursing and go the nurse practitioner route is to be more present…
Local educator Katie Studdard teaches 110 students daily. Her passion to meet the needs of all learners led her to become a student again. Katie McDill Studdard This week, Studdard will begin her sixth year as an art teacher for Caledonia Middle School and 20th year overall as an educator,…
Mississippi University for Women will launch a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education in fall 2025, designed to prepare students for licensure as pre-K educators. “The shift from a non-licensure model to a licensure-track program directly addresses Mississippi’s urgent need for early childhood educators,” said Dr. Martin Hatton, dean…
