Candace Lukasik, an assistant professor in Mississippi State’s Department of Philosophy and Religion, is joining a highly selective program for emerging scholars poised to shape the future of religious studies.

A Mississippi State faculty member with more than two decades of experience in anthropology and Near Eastern archeology is now the head of MSU’s Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures.

Mississippi State students who aspire to become attorneys now have a new accelerated pathway into the legal profession thanks to a new university partnership with Mississippi College.