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ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥ Orientation Leaders welcome new students to campus beginning next week

ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥ Orientation Leaders welcome new students to campus beginning next week

Contact: Cammie Hopkins

Group photo of ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥ Orientation Leaders wearing maroon shirts
ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥ Orientation Leaders welcoming new students to campus this summer include (front row, left to right): Carrington Davis, Nathan Mosley, Vyusti Yadav, Grace Breuers and Jamarcus Sutton; (second row, left to right) Omega Storey, Madison Beckham, Sara Frances Wolfe, Raegan Rushing, Camila Salazar and Anna Schumacher; (third row, left to right) Emily Shand, Dehn Basham, Trey O’Neal, Tim Boyd and Titus Neyland; (back row, left to right) Jacob Carter, Obuchi Aga and Kelan Traylor. (Photo submitted)

STARKVILLE, Miss.—ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥ State is recognizing 19 students from ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and India who are leaders of the university’s orientation programs that begin next week.

Working with the Office of Orientation and Events, ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥ Orientation Leaders provide assistance and share their knowledge of the 144-year-old land-grant institution with incoming freshman students and transfers—and their families—during each of the school year’s many information and registration sessions.

Selected from nearly 60 applicants, Orientation Leaders participate in a rigorous screening process to earn this distinction. In preparation for orientation sessions and events, these leaders take a concentrated course that prepares them to welcome the newest members of the Bulldog family to campus.

Students who have served this year include (by hometown):

BILOXI—Raegan Rushing, a senior industrial engineering major.

BYRAM—Jamarcus Sutton, a senior marketing and psychology major.

CANTON—Jacob Carter, a senior communication major.

COLLIERVILLE, Tennessee—Dehn Basham, a senior landscape architecture major.

COLUMBIA, Tennessee—Emily Shand, a junior industrial engineering major.

COLUMBUS—Carrington Davis, a junior elementary education major.

DECATUR, Alabama—Grace Breuers, a senior marketing major.

FORT WORTH, Texas—Anna Schumacher, a junior communication major.

GURGAON, India—Vyusti Yadav, a junior business administration and finance major.  

JACKSON—Titus Neyland, a senior computer science major.

NETTLETON—Trey O’Neal, a senior software engineering major.

RIPLEY—Omega Storey, a junior elementary education major.

SALISBURY, North Carolina—Timothy Boyd, a senior biological sciences major.

SOUTHAVEN—Madison Beckham, a senior educational psychology major.

STARKVILLE—Camila Salazar, a senior biomedical engineering major.

TERRY—Obuchi Aga, a senior marketing major.

TUPELO—Kelan Traylor, a senior communication major; and Sara Frances Wolfe, a senior biochemistry major.

VICKSBURG—Nathan Mosley, a junior biomedical engineering major.

For more on this summer’s orientation sessions and to register, visit ÌÒ»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Office of Admissions and Scholarships at .

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