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Office of National Scholarship Advisement
University of Mississippi

You’ll find support and encouragement from faculty and administrators all around campus.  The University is particularly grateful to those who have agreed to serve on the committees charged with working with students who are potential applicants for national scholarships.  Their involvement signals their firm and enthusiastic commitment to proactive work with students whose decisions and talents place them on a path toward national and international leadership in a wide range of fields.

UM National Scholarship Nomination Committees

  • Dr. Aileen Ajootian, Department of Classics
  • Dr. Donald Cole, Assistant Provost, Assistant to the Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs
  • Mr. Matthew Hall, Jessie R. Puckett, Jr. Lecturer, School of Law
  • Dr. Andrew Mullins, Associate Professor Emeritus,
  • Dr. Douglass Sullivan-González, Dean, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
  • Ms. Ashleen Williams, Senior Barksdale Fellow
  • Dr. John Winkle, Professor Emeritus, Political Science
  • Dr. Vivian Ibrahim, History and International Studies

National Scholarship Advisory Committee

  • Dr. Clifford Ochs, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Dr. Holly Reynolds, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts
  • Dr. John Rimoldi, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medicinal Chemistry
  • Dr. Jason Ritchie, Assistant Dean, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
  • Dr. Charles Ross, Director, African-American Studies
  • Dr. John Samonds, Associate Dean, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
  • Dr. Ethel Young-Minor, Department of English

Fulbright Campus Committee

  • Dr. Kate Centellas, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  • Dr. Daniel O’Sullivan, Department of Modern Languages
  • Dr. Marc Lerner, History
  • Dr. Christopher Sapp, Department of Modern Languages
  • Dr. Vivian Ibrahim, History and International Studies

Goldwater Nomination Committee

  • Dr. Susan Pedigo, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Dr. John Rimoldi, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Dr. Jason Ritchie, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry