Alumnus to Lead Mississippi School for Math and Science

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The educator chosen to guide the Mississippi College for Arithmetic and Science was a member of the varsity’s first graduating class in 1990.

The state Board of Schooling voted Thursday to rent Donald Prepare dinner as government director of the residential public highschool that gives an accelerated curriculum for highschool juniors and seniors. He begins June 1 on the college, which is on the campus of Mississippi College for Ladies in Columbus.

Germain McConnell had been government director of MSMS for eight years. He left Jan. 1 to turn out to be chief of employees for the Oxford College District. The interim director of MSMS has been Rick Smith.

Prepare dinner earned a bachelor’s in psychology/ pre-med from Mississippi State College in 1994, a grasp’s in science schooling from Mississippi Faculty in 1997 and a doctorate in schooling from Liberty College in 2018.

He started his schooling profession in 1996 as a chemistry/physics instructor at Northwest Rankin Attendance Middle in Brandon. He later returned to MSMS as a chemistry teacher, resident adviser and assistant resident corridor director.

He’s at present an teacher at Southern Union State Neighborhood Faculty in Opelika, Alabama, and is a science instructor at Newnan Excessive College in Newnan, Georgia.

Prepare dinner was division chair and professor of science and arithmetic at Level College in West Level, Georgia, from 2011 to 2021. He has designed a curriculum framework for Superior Placement physics and created on-line science programs and labs.

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