March is Women’s History Month, and Mississippi University for Women is celebrating with a slate of events. “Women’s History Month is an opportunity not only to uncover women’s historic contributions to our world, but also to highlight the ways in which women are making history in the here and now,”…
On March 6, the Martha Swain Speaker Series and the Ina E. Gordy Honors College welcome Dr. Kemeshia Randle Swanson, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Mississippi State University, to campus to explore respectability politics and how it has been challenged by the “maverick feminism” of African…
On March 30, the Martha Swain Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Anastasia C. Curwood, professor of history and director of African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, to campus to highlight the life and legacy of Shirley Chisholm—who made history as the first black woman elected to the…
Mississippi University for Women, the first state-supported college for women in the United States, will celebrate Women’s History Month throughout March.
Every year the MUW Alumni Association and the MUW Star and Scepter Chapter of Mortar Board conduct a campus-wide election to select MUW’s Faculty Member of the Year. This Award, which is announced at graduation and includes a $1000 grant from the MUW Alumni Association, is highly coveted. It honors…
As part of the next steps of its naming process, Mississippi University for Women has shared findings based on data gathered in an open community survey. Over 4,300 people completed the survey created by Love Communications based out of Salt Lake City. The greatest participation was from alumni, and the…
The Center for Women’s Research & Public Policy (CWRPP) at Mississippi University for Women has announced the inaugural NEW MS Legislative Fellowship which creates the next step toward political leadership for NEW MS alumni. “The fellowship offers these college students and early professionals the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of…
Mississippi University for Women’s Department of Health and Kinesiology will host a series of events on mental and physical health for Women’s Health Awareness Week Oct. 11-13. Dr. Ocheowelle Okeke “Sometimes we approach our striving for fitness and health in a frantic manner. This Women’s Health Awareness Week let us…
Sonya Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day returns to the Mississippi University for Women campus on Monday, Oct. 3, in Nissan Auditorium in Parkinson Hall. The event, which was started more than 20 years ago by Jane Wenstrom and supported in part by a grant from the Association of Women in…
Maggie Ellis needed a broader historical context. Maggie Ellis Working to complete a bachelor’s degree in History, Ellis opted to take Dr. Erin Kempker’s Women in American History class because they felt it would help the research they were doing for their capstone project that was focused on 19th-century women’s…
