Ļć½¶Ö±²„honors students with 2017-18 Provost Scholarships
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss. āTwelve incoming first-year students and transfers from Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas are recent selections for Ļć½¶Ö±²„ās prestigious Provost Scholarships.
The annual honor includes an academic scholarship, as well as ones for study abroad. Grants for research or creative discovery and an optional travel grant to attend a conference also are included.
To qualify, applicants must have a minimum 30 ACT and minimum 3.75 high school GPA (based on a 4.0 scale). For more, visit .
Selected from more than 500 qualified applicants, the 2017-18 group joins 33 already participating in the program, which is part of MSUās Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College.
Third-year program mentor Seth F. Oppenheimer said Provost Scholars serve as research leaders at Mississippi State and share their passion for understanding, exploration and truth with fellow students.
āWhether it is designing a better way to deliver lifesaving drugs using new classes of nanoparticles, uplifting a soul with new poetry, finding ways to feed the multitude of the worldās hungry with new agricultural techniques, or nourishing the hearts of people with new music, Provost Scholars follow the passion of their curiosity with hard work, diligence and creativity,ā said Oppenheimer, honors college undergraduate research program director and professor of mathematics and statistics.
The 2017-18 Provost Scholars class includes (by hometown):
BROOKHAVENāColton Watson, a freshman chemistry major.
CALEDONIAāChristopher M. Clements, a sophomore aerospace engineering/astronautics major.
COLUMBUSāMary F. Lee, a freshman biological engineering/biomedical engineering major.Ā Ā Ā
GULFPORTāJames D. Warren, a freshman biological engineering/biomedical engineering major.
LONG BEACHāChuyen J. Nguyen, a freshman software engineering major.
MADISONāChirantan Sen Mukherjee, a freshman electrical engineering major.
NEW HAVEN, MissouriāBrady A. Kruse, a freshman computer science major.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ArkansasāMitchell A. Harvey, a freshman chemical engineering major.
PONDER, TexasāAbigail A. Crouse, a sophomore animal and dairy science major.
RUSTON, LouisianaāHannah L. Scheaffer, a sophomore biochemistry major.
STARKVILLEāShanika R. Musser, a sophomore civil engineering/environmental engineering major; and Georgiana K. Swan, a sophomore political science major.
Learn more about MSUās Shackouls Honors College at .
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