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.

Gov. Tate Reeves has appointed a Mississippi State University associate professor to the governing board regulating practicing Magnolia State psychologists.

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.