Dr. Reyna Vergara understands the power of language. Erinn Holloway, Edgar Serrano and Dr. Reyna Vergara Now Vergara, an assistant professor of Spanish at Mississippi University for Women, wants to pair that power with advocacy to help foreign language students and teachers in the state of Mississippi. Vergara set that…
The Golden Triangle College Fair hosted by Mississippi University for Women will allow high school seniors to connect with higher education and professional opportunities Nov. 1 and 2 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Pohl Gym. “The W is excited to be hosting this fantastic event. The Golden Triangle…
On Thursday, Oct. 26. Mississippi University for Women’s Forum Series hosted by the Gordy Honors College welcomes Margaret Renkl, author and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear each Monday. Renkl will discuss her new book, “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” which offers…
Katy Simpson Smith Novelist Katy Simpson Smith returns as the keynote author at the 35th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 19-21 with her fourth novel, “The Weeds,” a meditation on the lives of two women from two centuries as they catalogue the flora of the Roman Colosseum. A Jackson…
African American undergraduate students Diane Hardy, Barbara Turner and Laverne Greene, and graduate students Jacqueline Edwards, Mary Flowers and Eula Houser, stepped foot on the campus of Mississippi University for Women in 1966, facing all manner of ridicule to open the door for future generations of African American students. The…
