33 Receive ‘Spirit of State’ Awards

2015 MSU 'Spirit of State' Honorees

2015 MSU ‘Spirit of State’ Honorees

STARKVILLE, Miss.– More than 30 Mississippi State students are receiving the university’s premier student recognition for exceptional personal contributions to campus life.

Now in its tenth year, the Spirit of State Awards program organized by the university’s Division of Student Affairs formally honors those who have made a positive impacts on peers and the broader campus community through organizational involvement, service to the institution and personal actions promoting school spirit and tradition.

Those selected have been nominated either by faculty and staff members or fellow students. A minimum 2.25 grade point average and good academic and disciplinary standing within the university are among the eligibility criteria.

The 2015 Spirit of State Award recipients include (by hometown):

ANGLETON, Texas–Taylor F. Hackemack, a senior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture/wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture science major.

CALEDONIA–Tyrus R. Hill, a senior finance major.

CLEAR SPRING, Maryland–Matthew F. Blair, a senior civil engineering/environmental engineering major.

CLEVELAND–Marybeth A. Cox, a senior human sciences/human development and family studies major.

COLLIERVILLE, Tennessee–Faith E. Smith, a senior computer engineering major; and Nash Tucker, a senior political science major.

COLUMBUS–Hagan D. Walker, a senior electrical engineering major.

CUMMING, Georgia–Emma C. Sweat, a senior marketing major.

DHAKA, Bangladesh–Tanmay Bhowmik, a computer science doctoral student.

ELGIN, Illinois–Alexis H. “Lexi” Waarich, a senior management major.

ENTERPRISE–Annedrea L. McMillan, a senior biological sciences/pre-optometry major.

FLORENCE–Brett R. Harris, a senior management and marketing double-major.

FLOWOOD–Jamie A. Aron, a senior political science and mathematics double-major.

GREENVILLE–Alissa A. McKinnon, a senior communication/public relations major.

GULFPORT–Margaret L. Bernheim, a senior psychology major.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama–Haley P. Wheeler, a junior food science, nutrition and health promotion/food and nutrition major.

INDIA–Vineetha Menon, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student.

JACKSON–Timothy Bradford Jr., an agricultural science/agricultural and extension education doctoral student; and Fredrick K. Wilson Jr., a senior communication/broadcasting major.

MARIETTA, Georgia–Bethany M. Crooks, a senior communication/public relations major.

MERIDIAN–Adrian L. Cross, a community college education master’s student at the MSU-Meridian Campus.

NEW ALBANY–Roderick C. Erby, a junior business information systems and information technology services double-major.

PICAYUNE–Kate Thompson, a senior biochemistry/pre-veterinary major.

PICKENS–Brittany S. Moore-Henderson, a doctoral student in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

PONTOTOC–Edward M. “Eddie Mac” Huddleston, a senior biochemistry/pre-medicine major.

RESERVE, Louisiana–Ryan M. Breaud, a senior biochemistry/pre-medicine major.

SCOTTSBORO, Alabama–Logan M. Chaney, a senior criminology major.

SHAW–Roderick D. Davis, a senior kinesiology/health fitness studies major.

STAR–Haley V. Grantham, a senior political science/pre-law major.

STARKVILLE–Dylan P. Karges, an applied anthropology master’s student; Casey E. McGee, a senior communication/public relations major; Meredith D. Pearson, a senior psychology major; and Chasity R. Swoopes, a senior kinesiology/clinical exercise physiology major.

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