Union County students graduate from MSU, other on honors lists

Several students from this area received degrees from Mississippi State University following the fall term of 2020.

Honor graduates include all bachelor-degree candidates with exceptional scholastic averages and at least half the total required course hours earned at MSU. Their specific levels of recognition and the minimum required averages for each, based on a 4.0 scale, include: summa cum laude, 3.80; magna cum laude, 3.60; and cum laude, 3.40.

The academic honors are recorded on the graduates’ diplomas and permanent records, as well as in the commencement program.

Local graduates include:

Russell T. Basham, Blue Springs, Bagley College of Engineering, BS, Summa Cum Laude

Mason Matthew Chapin, New Albany, College of Business, BBA,

Michaela Lyerly, Myrtle, College of Arts & Sciences, BA,

Myranda Grace Pearson, Blue Springs, College of Arts & Sciences, BSW,

John Thomas Wicker, Blue Springs, College of Arts & Sciences, BA, Cum Laude

MSU has released the names of local students named to the President’s List for the term.

Students on the President’s List achieved a 3.80 or better grade-point average, based on a 4.0 scale, while completing at least 12 semester hours of course work with no incomplete grades or grades lower than a C.

Russell T. Basham, Blue Springs,

Emily Elizabeth Bruce, Blue Springs,

Samuel Carnell Cagle, New Albany,

Maggie Jo Everett, New Albany,

Austin Kent Gafford, New Albany,

Molly K Gafford, New Albany,

Anna B Gandy, New Albany,

Lillian Grace Harmon, New Albany,

Kylie C Harrison, New Albany,

Amanda Brooke Herring, New Albany,

Sallie Paige Humphreys, Blue Springs,

Carley Elizabeth Jumper, New Albany,

Carley B Lawrence, Etta,

Mary Spencer Little, New Albany,

Akayla K Martin, New Albany,

Racheal Alise McCullough, New Albany,

Maggie Marie Moore, New Albany,

Audra Claire Myers, Blue Springs,

Morgan Leigh Nance, New Albany,

Hayes J Richey, New Albany,

Samuel Chase Sanders, New Albany,

Pierston Ty Schrock, New Albany,

Mallory G Tillery, New Albany,

John Thomas Wicker, Blue Springs,

MSU also released the Dean’s List for the fall semester. Deans’ List students achieved a grade-point average between 3.5 and 3.79, based on a 4.0 scale, while completing at least 12 semester hours of course work with no incomplete grades or grades lower than a C.

Adalyn Claire Aldridge, New Albany,

Anna Marie Bullock, New Albany,

Becca Childers, Myrtle,

Angelia Humphreys Churchill, Myrtle,

Dawson Elizabeth Crawford, Blue Springs,

Georgia Kathryn Crawford, Blue Springs,

Michael Shane Crotts, New Albany,

Maggie C Meinz, Blue Springs,

Gavin James Mitchell, New Albany,

Kortney Lynn Parker, New Albany,

Myranda Grace Pearson, Blue Springs,

Harlynn Beth Robinson, Blue Springs,

Kennedy Noel Rogers, New Albany,

Grace Anne Thompson, New Albany,

Robert Andrew Vance, New Albany,