Many say theater has a way of reaching kids and changing their lives. This is true for Tabitha Hewitt-Rafferty, a freshman at Mississippi State University and former foster child who found solace in the performing arts.

In 2021, Mississippi State University was awarded a “voter-friendly” status for student voter turn-out in the 2020 elections. State officials and MSU student organizations and departments have made efforts to maintain youth participation in the upcoming midterm election.

National Fossil Day is approaching, and Mississippi State’s Department of Geosciences is ready to rock the day with a new virtual exhibit.

In a time of divisive culture wars, distrust in government and political uncertainty, Brian Shoup, a professor in and the head of Mississippi State’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, said Americans can do two things to ensure the continued durability of the republic: love one another and love their country.

Looking back on his four years at UMMC, senior medical student JoJo Dodd says working with the Jackson Free Clinic has been one of his most fulfilling experiences during his time here.

Mississippi State’s head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration will be the featured speaker Monday [Sept. 19] during the university’s annual Constitution Day program.

Mississippi State’s annual Classical Week returns Sept. 19-23 featuring a lecture by a renowned classics expert and two outdoor performances of an early Roman comedy. The week is an exploration of this year’s Orators Lecture Series’ theme “Family Secrets and Societal Roles: Finding Meaning in Human Connectivity.”

Emmie Perkins, Miss Mississippi State University 2021, crowns Anna Katherine Thompson as Miss MSU 2022 during Sunday's [Sept. 11] competition at Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium. Thompson, a junior communication major from Ruston, Louisiana, will represent MSU in the Miss Mississippi pageant next year.

The Department of English at Mississippi State University presented its inaugural Wendy Herd Award for Research in Linguistics this spring in honor and memory of the late Wendy Herd, former director of MSU’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program and founder of the department’s Linguistics Research Laboratory.

A Mississippi State associate professor of political science and public administration is a featured speaker this month for The British Academy’s conference on the Russo-Ukrainian War.

The College of Arts and Sciences at Mississippi State University has solidified administrative roles in the academic affairs division for the largest college within the land-grant university by removing the interim title of two assistant deans.

Despite its unusually slow start, a Mississippi State meteorologist says not to rule out an increase in activity during the last months of the Atlantic Ocean’s hurricane season, a time each year concerned Mississippians monitor.