Haley Meier was destined to become a meteorologist. Born in Omaha, Nebraska—part of the classic Tornado Alley of the Midwest—and nicknamed “Hailstorm” by her family for her temperamental outbursts as a young child, Meier said she’s always been in the weather. At 3 years old, she named clouds and used whipped cream to draw them in pie tins, and as a high school student, she shadowed the meteorology team at KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas, where she was a standout soccer player.

The Institute for the Humanities at Mississippi State will spotlight short research presentations by three 2023 faculty fellows, who also will take questions about their work during a May 2 panel session, free and open to the public.

Mississippi State University this summer is providing a second year of Humanities Camp, an in-depth experience aimed at providing young scholars an understanding of human motivation through exposure to humanities-related courses.

Rose MacLean, associate professor of classics at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will be the featured speaker in Mississippi State’s Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Distinguished Lecturer Series this week.

Meet Deepali M. Dhruve! Deepali is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology from Irvine, CA. In 2016, she received a Bachelor of Science in anthropology and a minor in psychology from the University of California, Davis. She plans to graduate with a Ph.D. next May.

Mississippi State is encouraging its faculty to continue building new global partnerships with the university’s impactful international research already expanding across all seven continents.

Mississippi’s Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce will host the Mississippi Young Writers Poetry Festival, a culmination of her statewide K-12 poetry-writing initiative and competition My Town Mississippi Poetry Project, at Mississippi State next week.

A quick Q&A with senior Chemistry major and College of Arts and Sciences Ambassador Sarah Labbé, on her time here at Mississippi State, what she's learn, and what's next in her journey.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Exceptional Mississippi State faculty and staff are being honored with annual awards recognizing their outstanding teaching, mentoring and advising at the university.

A Mississippi State forensic anthropologist is the university’s first fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the premiere organization for professional forensic scientists in the country.

Mississippi State’s Department of Physics and Astronomy again is hosting its annual Physics Summer Camp for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, for those age 14 and older.

Two Mississippi State University faculty members in the Department of Psychology have garnered $2.4 million in external funding to help improve mental health access for youth across Mississippi.