Warhawk Weekly 1-30: Homecoming 2024; Basketball doubleheaders
Get involved in Homecoming 2024 competitions
Nominations for the 2024 Homecoming Court and entries for the Chancellor’s Cup competition are due to the Office of Student Involvement & Leadership Programs this week.
Homecoming Court nominations, which are open to candidates from approved student clubs and organizations, athletic teams, residence halls and AUM colleges and departments, must be submitted by noon on Wednesday, Jan. 31. Chancellor’s Cup team rosters must be submitted by Friday, Feb. 2. Complete rules for both submission processes can be found on the 2024 Homecoming website.
A full week of Homecoming events will begin on Sunday, Feb. 2, and end with the women’s and men’s basketball doubleheader on Saturday, Feb. 10, at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Events include the Campus Activity Board’s Homecoming Tent Party, the SGA Pep Rally and Bonfire, and a Casino Night hosted by the AUM Alumni Association.
Basketball teams hosting GSC doubleheaders
AUM will welcome Mississippi College and Delta State to the Athletics Complex this week for Gulf South Conference basketball doubleheaders.
AUM’s women and men will host Mississippi College Thursday, Feb. 1, at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively. Delta State will visit Saturday for games at 2 and 4 p.m.
AUM welcomes Mississippi College (Thursday, Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m.) and Delta State (Saturday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m.) this week.
The AUM women, who are fourth in the GSC standings (11-7 overall, 9-5 in league), will try to extend a four-game winning streak that includes a 55-30 weekend blowout of Shorter College. Allasha Dudley leads the Warhawks in scoring at 17.1 points per game, good for third in the conference.
The AUM men (8-10, 5-9) cruises to a 100-80 win over Shorter behind a 31-point, six-assist effort from Travis Anderson.
Counseling students support new Montgomery creative space
AUM’s chapter of Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society International organized two professional development workshops during the Fall 2023 semester that raised funds to support a new Montgomery arts organization serving adults with special needs.
Collaborating with AUM faculty members Paul Hard and Keith Cates, Chi Sigma Iota provided the workshops to faculty, students, and Montgomery area professional counselors at AUM in 2023. The workshops explored telemental health ethics and issues, as well as supervision ethics and establishment of a private practice.
Proceeds from both workshops have been donated to Montgomery’s new Many Colors Arts Collective, a day program for adults with a variety of disabilities such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Downs Syndrome, and other disability types.
Spring sports seasons open this week
AUM’s tennis, softball and baseball teams will begin regular season play on the road this week.
The AUM women’s and men’s tennis teams will travel to Macon, Georgia, to face Middle Georgia State University on Friday, Feb. 1, at 1 p.m. The teams enter the season under the leadership of first-year head coach Michael O’Brien having qualified for the NCAA Division II South Region tournament in 2023.
The softball team, which reached the 2023 NCAA Division II South Regional championship game last season, opens play Friday at 10 a.m. against 5th-ranked Nova Southeastern University in the Gulf Shores Invitational tournament. The Warhawks, who have received NCAA Division II Top 25 votes in the preseason poll, will also play Lubbock Christian on the opening day of the tournament.
The baseball team will open its season under new head coach Franklin Bush on Friday at 5 p.m. at St. Leo (Fla.). After finishing the three-game series in Florida and visiting Miles College next week, the Warhawks will open a three-game home series against Embry-Riddle on Friday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m.
Deadline approaches for Southern Studies Conference submissions
Faculty, staff and students have until Wednesday, Jan. 31, to enter submissions for the 2024 Southern Studies Conference.
The interdisciplinary conference welcomes individual paper submissions, complete panels/roundtables, posters or other exhibits such as artistic displays that explore the politics, history, literature, culture and arts of the American South. Submit your proposals online.
AUM will host the 2024 Southern Studies Conference March 28-29. The conference’s registration fee is waived for all AUM students, retirees, and employees.
Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and every submission received by January 31, 2024, will receive full consideration.
To recognize the outstanding contributions made by student presenters, the Southern Studies Conference will award two Best Paper prizes to the following:
- One undergraduate student project ($100)
- One graduate student project ($150)
The Conference will also award two Best Poster/Exhibit prizes to the following:
- One undergraduate student project ($100)
- One graduate student project ($150).
If you have any questions about the 2024 Southern Studies Conference, please feel free to contact the conference chair, David Hughes, at [email protected].
Apply for the Graduate Study Merit Scholarship
If you’re a current graduate student who has completed at least nine course hours and possess a GPA of 3.4 or better, you may be eligible to receive the 2024-2025 Graduate Study Merit Scholarship offered by the AUM Alumni Association.
To apply for the scholarship, submit the following documents to [email protected] (include “Scholarship Committee, AUM Alumni Association” in the subject line) by March 15:
- Your graduate GPA
- Two letters of support, preferably from AUM faculty or staff (on AUM official letterhead), emphasizing leadership attributes
- A 250-word essay outlining the applicant’s educational and career objectives, academic honors/civic activities, and how the award will benefit them.
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