$4 million grant helps MSU continue supporting migrant children in Mississippi
More than $4 million in federal funding is enabling Mississippi State University to continue meeting the educational needs of migrant children across the state through the Mississippi Migrant Education Service Center. Administered by the Mississippi Department of Education, the five-year grant supports MSU’s ongoing efforts...
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Mississippi State’s Department of Chemistry is touting another prestigious grant—$1.4 million—from the National Science Foundation
Mississippi State’s Department of Chemistry is touting another prestigious grant—$1.4 million—from the National Science Foundation, positioning faculty to advance scientific exploration at the land-grant university through NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program-funded projects. Professor Dongmao Zhang is the third chemistry faculty member this year to receive...
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MSU GRANT INCREASES ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES IN MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi State University is increasing access to behavioral health services in rural communities across the Magnolia State thanks to a $943,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. Awarded to MSU’s Applied Behavior Analysis program in the College of Education, the two-year funding addresses...
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MSU researchers pioneer new method to detect Chronic Wasting Disease
Mississippi State University researchers are pioneering a new way to detect the local presence of chronic wasting disease, a fatal disease threatening the nation’s deer populations.
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New ride: MSU students to transform Cadillac LYRIQ as part of EcoCAR competition
MSU’s EcoCAR Electric Vehicle Challenge team officially unveiled its new Cadillac LYRIQ at the university’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems. The EcoCAR team has spent over a year developing designs to implement an all-electric powertrain, as well as connected and autonomous features into the vehicle....
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MSU School of Architecture’s Gregory receives national community engagement award
Mississippi State University School of Architecture Associate Professor Alexis Gregory is the recipient of the 2023 PCI Foundation Community Engagement Award. Gregory, who also was awarded a $100,000 grant in 2020 from the nonprofit organization to incorporate precast and prestressed concrete projects into MSU architecture...
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Radicioni named MSU’s newest Rhodes Scholarship finalist
Mississippi State G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Presidential Endowed Scholar Ann Olivia Radicioni is the university’s newest Rhodes Scholarship finalist. The senior political science major and Shackouls Honors College student from Clinton also was honored by the university as Miss MSU and was introduced alongside other members...
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MSU senior Brode claims prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Madison Brode, a senior biological sciences major at Mississippi State, is the university’s first recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, a prestigious award annually providing a select 50 American students graduate-level study in the United Kingdom. Brode, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, will study biodiversity, conservation...
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$4.8 million grant, three dozen national experts take on threats to sweet potato seed program through CleanSEED Project
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A $4.8 million multi-state project led by Mississippi State is bringing together more than 30 national experts to address problems jeopardizing seed programs of a U.S. crop currently valued at $680 million. University research and extension scientists from major sweet potato states are partnering...
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