Resources & Scholarships

Eligibility:

• UM graduate
• Mississippi resident
• Must attend the University of Mississippi School of Dentistry
• Students with other tuition-based scholarships cannot receive the Bynum Memorial scholarship.

Application process:

• For current students who are attending the UMMC for medical or dental school, there is a separate application for the Culley and Bynum Scholarship. 

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Dr. Joseph Medicus Bynum:

This scholarship was established to assist students pursuing a career in dentistry. Dr. Joseph Medicus Bynum, Jr. (1876- 1955), a native of Booneville, MS, received his BA from UM in 1898 from the School of Science, Literature and Arts, and was granted his license to practice medicine in 1901.

 Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• Preference is given to Mississippi residents
• plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About B.H. Richardson Jr.: 

This scholarship was established in 1999 to honor B.H. Richardson Jr. (1922-2007), a native of rural Kemper County, who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army after being wounded during the World War II invasion of Normandy. Mr. Richardson lost his life to Alzheimer’s disease in April 1998. To honor their brother and the humble life he chose to live, Bobby E. Richardson of Vicksburg and Bernice Goldman of Philadelphia established the B.H. Richardson Jr. Memorial Scholarship Endowment. None of the Richardson family has ties to UM, but B.H. Richardson’s brother and sister chose to memorialize their late brother by giving to a state institution with a medical school whose students might one day find the key that unlocks the mystery behind Alzheimer’s.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• entering freshmen
• Graduates of Tupelo High School, Tupelo Christian Preparatory School, and home schooled students from Tupelo, MS
• plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Dr. Bob Bennett:

This scholarship was established in 2004 by Dr. Bob Bennett, who earned his BA in Biological Science from UM in 1984 and MD from UM Medical School in 1988. He is a retired anesthesiologist from the East Texas Anesthesiology Associates.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• natural sciences major within the College of Liberal Arts
• Financial Need (FAFSA required)

Application process:

The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu. 

About Charles R. McMurchy:

This scholarship was established in 2007 by Dr. Charles R. McMurchy, Jr.  He was originally from Fayette, MS, and graduated with a BA in biological science degree from UM in 1970 and a MD from UM Medical School in 1974.  Dr. McMurchy has been in private practice specializing in gastroenterology in Winston-Salem, NC, for more than 40 years.

Eligibility

• Full-time student
• Mississippi resident
• graduate of UM
• attend UM School of Medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu 
• For current students who are attending the UMMC for medical or dental school, there is a separate application for the Culley and Bynum Scholarship
• Students with other tuition-based scholarships cannot receive the Culley Memorial scholarship. 

About Dr. John C. Culley

This scholarship was established in 1968 to assist students attending medical school. Dr. John C. Culley (1886- 1966) was a distinguished physician and surgeon who was born in Madison, MS, and received his medical degree at Vanderbilt in 1909.  He served for 10 years as Professor of Medicine at UM (1914-1924), was superintendent & owner of the first hospital in Oxford, and also served as President of the MS Medical Association (1931-1932). He was also part-time University of Mississippi physician until 1945.  His wife, Nina Somerville Culley (1897-1965), a native Oxonian and daughter of the Dean of the UM School of Law, received her BS from UM in 1915.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu. 

About Dr. Hugh Bateman:

This scholarship was established in 2014 to honor Dr. Hugh Bateman (1937-2015), a native of Franklinton, Louisiana, who received his MS and PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1970, Dr. Bateman became coordinator of clinical services in the Department of Speech and Hearing (now Communicative Sciences and Disorders) at the University of Mississippi, then chair of the department and then assistant dean of liberal arts for health related professions advisement He later was a research advocate for the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• Preference is given to Mississippi residents
• plans to pursue a career in medicine
• attend the University of Mississippi School of Medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Dr. and Mrs. James C. Hays:

This scholarship was established in 1987 by Dr. and Mrs. James C. Hays.  Dr. Hays earned his MD at UMC in 1962, completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic, and served a tour of duty with the Air Force.  He returned to Jackson, MS, and had a long career in private practice with specialization in internal medicine & cardiovascular disease.  Mrs. Preston Myers Hays (1940-2012) was born in Indianola, MS, raised in Jackson and earned her BA in Math from UM in 1961.  She received many outstanding volunteer awards, was involved in the cultural and civic life of Jackson, MS, for many years, and was a driving force in the inception of the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

This scholarship was established in 2000 by Mrs. Lauderdale to honor Dr. James Abner Lauderdale (1914- 1996).  After graduating from Tulane University and serving in the Navy in the South Pacific, he began medical practice in Meridian in 1948, retiring in 1988.  He was chairman of the ‘Knock Out Polio’ immunization campaign in 1964 sponsored by the East Mississippi Medical Society.

Eligibility: 

• Full-time student
• Rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• Preference is given to Mississippi resident
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

•     The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your     personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Dr. And Mrs. James A. Lauderdale:  

This scholarship was established in 2000 by Mrs. Lauderdale to honor Dr. James Abner Lauderdale (1914- 1996).  After graduating from Tulane University and serving in the Navy in the South Pacific, he began medical practice in Meridian in 1948, retiring in 1988.  He was chairman of the ‘Knock Out Polio’ immunization campaign in 1964 sponsored by the East Mississippi Medical Society.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application,     please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Dr. Sidney H. Warren:  

This scholarship was established by Warren Ball to honor Dr. Sidney H. Warren Jr. (1938-1985), who earned his chemistry degree from UM in 1960. He was born in Natchez, MS, and lived in Houma, Louisiana.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• Rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• Preference is given to Mississippi residents
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine
• Attend the University of Mississippi School of Medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu. 

About Dr. Jefferson F. Hollingsworth

This scholarship was established in 1987 to honor Dr. Jefferson F. Hollingsworth (1943-1986), a native of Meridian, MS, who received a BS from UM (1965) and MD from Tulane University (1968). He was a cardiovascular surgeon in Jackson, MS, and was instrumental in getting the cardiac catheterization program started in Meridian.  

 Eligibility: 

• Full-time student 
• Major in biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or psychology
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Dr. John E. Ray:

This scholarship was established in 1999 by Dr. John E. Ray (1922-2006), a native of Hinkle Creek, MS, who lived in New Orleans for 43 years. He was a graduate of UM & Northwestern Univ. Med School & served in the US Army in the Korean War. Dr. Ray was a former Department Head of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Ochsner Medical Institutions and Professor of Surgery at Tulane University. 

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• Rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Marie Dees and C. Walter Mattingly:

This scholarship was established in 1994 to honor Marie Dees and C. Walter Mattingly.  Dr. Walter Mattingly (1900-1981), a New Orleans surgeon and horse breeder, grew up in White Castle, Louisiana and graduated from Tulane University of Louisiana School of Medicine in 1926. He was appointed house surgeon at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Marie Dees Mattingly (1896-1993), native of Copiah County, MS, received her BS from UM in 1917 and MD from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1921.  She was an Associate Professor of Anatomy at Tulane for a number of years.  

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• Rising sophomore, junior, or senior
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

 About Mary Eugenia Miller and Bradford (J.B.) Pittman:

This scholarship was established in 2003 to honor Mary Eugenia Miller (1908-2002) who received a degree in landscape design from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in English from Columbia University. She was a schoolteacher, a world traveler, and a resident of Crenshaw for more than 90 years. The scholarship also honors Miller’s Uncle “Doc” Pittman, a country doctor. Dr. Judge Bradford (J.B.) Pittman, M.D. (1867- 1940) was born in Webster County, MS and practiced medicine in Crenshaw, MS.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• Entering freshman
• Mississippi resident
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine
• Active with community service, excels academically
• Financial Need (FAFSA required)

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Pearl Linda Walters and Otis W. Walters:

This scholarship was established in 1994 to honor Pearl Linda Walters (1909 -1995) and Otis W. Walters (1922-1993).  The Walters were business owners on the Gulf Coast and real estate developers in the Biloxi, MS area.

Eligibility:

• Full-time student
• Entering freshman
• Majoring in biological science
• Plans to pursue a career in medicine
• Plans to attend medical school
• Financial Need (FAFSA required)

Application process:

• The application deadline is March 24. In addition to the application, please submit your personal statement and resume to the Health Professions Advising Office or email to hpao@olemiss.edu.

About Sydney Kelli Smith:

The scholarship was established in 2016 to honor Sydney Kelli Smith by family and friends.  Ms. Smith (1997-2015) passed away on her eighteenth birthday, March 12, 2015, in a tragic car accident. She grew up in Texas & was just a few months from graduation from high school, having decided to attend the University of Mississippi in the fall. Sydney planned to major in biological science and pursue a career in trauma surgery. From her obituary:”Trauma surgery would have been the perfect career for her as she lived her life with passion and emotion.”