Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU is hosting former student and Shakespearean and commedia clown actor Jarrod Bates on campus April 18-22 for a week of performances, acting lessons and lectures as actor-in-residence. Bates will present a hybrid lecture/comedy show—“Shaking Up Shakespeare: a comedic, radically irreverent resuscitation of the bard”—on Wednesday [April 20] at 5 p.m. on McComas Hall’s main stage. The event is free and open to the public.

After witnessing the “slap heard around the world” during the 2022 Oscars, I wasn’t surprised when the internet split into two camps: #TeamWill and #TeamChris.

Two Mississippi State undergraduates with outstanding research accomplishments are new Goldwater Scholarship winners and will receive the country’s most preeminent undergraduate award for students in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.

Award-winning author and Mississippi State English Professor Catherine Pierce is dedicating her work as the state’s current Poet Laureate to helping all Mississippians gain access to poetry in a meaningful way.

A Mississippi State faculty member is featuring the university’s proposed interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science at this weekend’s SEC Mini-Conference on Artificial Intelligence in the Curriculum.

Mississippi native Jesmyn Ward, the first woman and first person of color to win two National Book Awards for fiction, will present a public reading Tuesday [April 12], sharing with the Mississippi State community excerpts from her nationally acclaimed writing.

Mississippi State English Professor Catherine Pierce—also serving as Mississippi’s Poet Laureate—officially is being recognized for this prestigious, statewide appointment on April 11.

Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU will run its fourth and final production of the year this week.

Mississippi State Geology Professor Renee Clary is being honored this week as a new Fellow of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences.

Acclaimed novelist Deborah Johnson will be the featured spring guest on Tuesday [March 29] for Mississippi State’s Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.

What happens when a student finds themselves struggling in a class with nowhere to turn for additional instruction? Assistant Clinical Professor of Chemistry Eric Van Dornshuld anticipated this need, creating an online tool to benefit his students as well as students around the world.

A Mississippi State associate professor of history who specializes in Soviet/Russian history will give a lecture Tuesday [March 29], which is accessible as an in-person event—free and open to all—and as a simultaneous live-stream for online viewers.