A trio of Mississippi State juniors are taking their studies across the world thanks in part to an award from one of the nation’s most selective honor societies.

A Mississippi State University graduate student whose work benefitted the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons is the recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation fellowship.

The winners of a statewide storytelling competition all hail from Mississippi State University and received top prizes for their moving narratives of struggles, human triumph and finding identity through poetry.

Mississippi State University’s College of Arts and Sciences this spring inducted its newest member into the Graduate Student Hall of Fame and celebrated the academic achievements of more than a dozen graduate students at the spring graduate student awards program.

For the first time, the Mississippi State Bulldogs are national champions of collegiate debate. The MSU Debate Team claimed top honors at the April 2024 International Public Debate Association National Tournament. In another first, MSU also served as the tournament host, with 50 colleges and universities making their way to Starkville to compete for national titles.

Grace Moen’s journey in higher education took her farther than most students: The Pacific Northwest native traveled almost 7,000 miles to find her home at Mississippi State University.

Last week at the semester’s end, Mississippi State University students enrolled in a community-engaged learning class held an event in downtown Starkville to present their digital humanities project honoring the legacy of Dr. Douglas L. Conner, a noted civil rights activist and one of the first Black physicians to practice in Starkville.

Mississippi State University’s Institute for the Humanities announces the inaugural Summer Support Scholars recipients—each receiving $1000 for extended summer research, simultaneously allowing the Institute to highlight graduate research at the land-grant university.

Two senior chemistry majors at Mississippi State were named presentation winners at this spring’s 2024 Southeast Undergraduate Research Conference—an annual event aimed at showcasing undergraduate chemistry research.

Mississippi State University chemistry graduate student Matthew Carlo recently was selected for the National Research Council Research Associate Award to conduct his postdoctoral training at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, CA.

MSU student-journalists won top awards at the 2024 Mississippi Press Association Better News/Media Conference in Ridgeland this spring. The Reflector, MSU's student newspaper, won the overall General Excellence award for the fourth year in a row.

Two Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College students are Mississippi State’s most recent national finalists for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship.