Mississippi University for Women will hold its annual Women’s Health Awareness Luncheon, Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Pope Banquet Room of Hogarth Dining Hall. The luncheon is co-sponsored by Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle and The W’s Department of Health & Kinesiology. This year’s…
Maurice Carlos Ruffin Novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin returns to keynote the 36th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 24-26 with his new novel, “The American Daughters.” Ruffin’s keynote will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Mississippi University for Women’s Poindexter Hall. Sessions continue Friday at 9:30 a.m.
Dr. Travis Hagey, associate professor of biology at Mississippi University for Women, was named among the 2024 recipients of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award totaling a little over $1 million for five years. The award will allow for ample field work studying gecko toepads across the globe.
Dr. Valentin M. Bogdan, professor of music at Mississippi University for Women, was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission in the classical music composition category. This competitive award is a portion of the more than $1.7 million in grants MAC awarded in Fiscal Year 2025. This is…
Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Sciences and Mathematics is being assisted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, one of the largest biomedical research foundations in the world, to bring research-driven instruction to first-year students. “The biology and microbiology faculty here would love it if any student of any major…
