A professor and director of Russia’s Institute of History and International Relations at the Southern Federal University in Rostov-na-Donu will give this year’s Lamar Conerly Governance Lecture Series address at Mississippi State.

Portia Ballard Espy, the chief executive officer of the Mississippi Urban League, is the featured speaker in Feb. 15’s Orators Lecture Series, a collaboration between Mississippi State University’s Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College and College of Arts and Sciences’ Institute for the Humanities.

Pete Smith, an associate professor of communication at Mississippi State University, is MSU’s 2023 Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year.

Mississippi State Associate Professor Melody Fisher fills a void in social science literature about public relations history with her 2022 book highlighting the practices and scholarship contributions to the field by members of ethnically and racially underrepresented groups.

Mississippi State University’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program is celebrating the memory of Cadet Colby Marlow through the creation of an endowed scholarship.

Research by Mississippi State Professor Jinwu Ye is featured in Nature—the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal—as part of an interdisciplinary team whose computer coding created a holographic universe in order to test the existence of space-time passages or wormholes.

A Mississippi State faculty member’s new book focuses on how lessons about safety and safety precautions enhance fear of crime.

Mississippi State University’s Story State 2023—an annual event aimed at sharing Mississippi stories—is open for entries for new and original written, oral or filmed stories. The competition is open to all students enrolled at a Mississippi institution of higher learning, with entries accepted until Feb. 1.

Emma Wade, a highly decorated senior computer science major and biological sciences minor from Decatur, Alabama, is Mississippi State’s first Churchill Scholar.

Mississippi State’s College of Arts and Sciences has selected four new recipients of the Dean’s Eminent Scholar Awards honoring “exceptionally meritorious faculty who have achieved national recognition and enhanced the quality and stature of academic programs.”

Four Mississippi State students are recent winners of achievement awards from the university’s Association of Retired Faculty.

Christina Gorman, a Marion resident is Mississippi State University-Meridian’s selection for this fall’s Dennis J. Mitchell Award of Excellence and recognized as the Outstanding Undergraduate Student in the Division of Arts and Sciences.