MSMS hosts National Science Bowl regionals
Despite an 7:30 a.m. start-time, eighth grader Coleman Morris used the adrenaline rush he knows well from his time playing football for New Hope Middle School in rallying with his peers prior to competing in the regional finals of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl held at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science on Saturday.
MSMS grad wins Rhodes scholarship
Millsaps College senior Ericka M. Wheeler is a double major in English and history who has plans to become a physician after watching her grandfather suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Her journeys so far have taken her from Mississippi to Cambodia and Cuba and her next stop will be England, as a Rhodes Scholar.
MSMS cries foul on Ivy League study
Researchers at an Ivy League school have made changes to a study on African American suspension rates in Southern schools after hearing from angry staff and alumni at a local high school.
Our View: It is wise to look beyond the numbers
Cats are better than dogs — and vice versa — as statistics, studies, magazine rankings and polls clearly indicate.
MSMS students featured on Rural Voices Radio
This week, two students from the Mississippi School for Math and Science read poems they wrote on “Rural Voices Radio,” a Mississippi Public Broadcasting program.
Slimantics: Edmonson is bullish on MSMS
When Chad Edmonson calls the Mississippi School for Math and Science “the best economic development program Mississippi has ever developed,” you might be inclined to dismiss the statement as the hyperbole of a proud alumnus.
MSMS student wins first at piano competition
Joy Carino, a piano student in Mississippi University for Women’s music department, placed first at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association Pre-College Competition.
Two MSMS grads will soon be studying Russian abroad
Two recent Mississippi School for Math and Science graduates will study Russian in the former Soviet Union this summer after winning scholarships sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
MSMS students to celebrate history at Sandfield Cemetery
One-hundred and fifty years ago on May 8, Union troops entered Columbus and effectively freed the remaining slaves.
MSMS teacher to appear on NPR’s 50 Great Teachers
In March, Mississippi School for Math and Science teacher Chuck Yarborough received an email from a former student named Owen Phillips.
Friendship Cemetery comes to life
“The cemetery’s a lively place, isn’t it?”
That’s the question high school student West Givens will ask visitors at Friendship Cemetery during Pilgrimage this year, and he’d be correct.
MSMS junior to represent Miss. in national poetry competition
Joy Carino, a junior at Mississippi School for Math and Science, has won the statewide Poetry Out Loud competition and will continue to the national competition in Washington, D.C., next month.
MSMS director: ‘We will be a top 10 high school’
The Executive Director of the Mississippi School for Math and Science told local Rotarians Tuesday that he expects the school to be one of the top ten high schools in the nation in coming years.
MSMS named one of top 100 high schools
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science has been named one of the best high schools in America.
A gifted Columbus teen tackles a global need
To say the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science senior is a whiz kid sounds flippant.
MSMS students offered $20M in scholarships
On May 24th as the Mississippi School for Math and Science Class of 2014 dons their caps and gowns and proceeds to graduate, they will certainly have much on their minds. But one thing the vast majority won’t be worried about is how they will pay for college.
Henry to soon study in Russia
A Mississippi School for Math and Science teacher will travel to Russia this summer after winning a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.
Photo: 8 O’May Ceremony
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student Kaylyn Davis, of Shaw, portrays the late Susie Mitchell, who is buried in Sandfield Cemetery in Columbus. The Eighth of May Emancipation Day event was presented by the Voices in Harmony and the African-American History class from MSMS.
MSMS students to perform in historic Sandfield Cemetery
Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science students will perform an “8th of May Emancipation Celebration” in a Columbus cemetery Thursday.
2 Mississippi students are presidential scholars
Two Mississippi students have been selected as 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholars.