Mississippi State University Associate Professor Margaret A. Hagerman has been honored with the Distinguished Early Career Award by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Children and Youth. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional contributions by early-career sociologists in childhood and youth studies.

A Mississippi State faculty member steeped in literary knowledge is the new head of the university’s Department of English.

Mississippi State’s new head of the Department of Chemistry in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences originally hails from England, but most recently was a University of Texas at Arlington faculty member with more than 20 years of experience in organic chemistry and biochemistry.