An Emmy-winning MSU Films production exploring youth suicide in the Magnolia State will air on Mississippi Public Broadcasting next week.

Mississippi State University is part of a European-American collaboration studying how human activities, like fertilizer use and polluting, are impacting nitrogen-fixing plants which are crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems by adding nitrogen to the soil.

Sarah Randolph, a senior biological sciences major from Vicksburg, receives the Mississippi State University crown during the annual pageant Thursday night [Oct. 17] at Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. Miss MSU is a preliminary pageant for Miss Mississippi and Miss America. Crowning Randolph is 2024 Miss MSU Morgan Nelson of Vicksburg.