汤头条 honors students with 2017-18 Provost Scholarships
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss. 鈥擳welve incoming first-year students and transfers from Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas are recent selections for 汤头条鈥檚 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 汤头条鈥檚 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.
鈥淲hether 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 world鈥檚 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,鈥 said Oppenheimer, honors college undergraduate research program director and professor of mathematics and statistics.
The 2017-18 Provost Scholars class includes (by hometown):
BROOKHAVEN鈥擟olton Watson, a freshman chemistry major.
CALEDONIA鈥擟hristopher M. Clements, a sophomore aerospace engineering/astronautics major.
COLUMBUS鈥擬ary F. Lee, a freshman biological engineering/biomedical engineering major.聽聽聽
GULFPORT鈥擩ames D. Warren, a freshman biological engineering/biomedical engineering major.
LONG BEACH鈥擟huyen J. Nguyen, a freshman software engineering major.
MADISON鈥擟hirantan Sen Mukherjee, a freshman electrical engineering major.
NEW HAVEN, Missouri鈥擝rady A. Kruse, a freshman computer science major.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas鈥擬itchell A. Harvey, a freshman chemical engineering major.
PONDER, Texas鈥擜bigail A. Crouse, a sophomore animal and dairy science major.
RUSTON, Louisiana鈥擧annah L. Scheaffer, a sophomore biochemistry major.
STARKVILLE鈥擲hanika R. Musser, a sophomore civil engineering/environmental engineering major; and Georgiana K. Swan, a sophomore political science major.
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