Mike Brown, MSU professor of geosciences and state climatologist, helped develop and now oversees an app that allows him to submit detailed, highly localized information to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The Drought Monitor is a publication provided by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is the basis of much drought-relief efforts nationwide.

Students seeking scientific medical knowledge at Mississippi State University now have a cutting-edge resource to help them dissect human anatomy with the most-advanced medical education system available—state-of-the-art Anatomage Tables.

The latest cohort of Mississippi State’s Institute for the Humanities Fellows is exploring expansive historical and cultural topics, including Central American national identity, American medical history and the role of satire in Elizabethan society.