Mississippi State University Associate Professor Margaret A. Hagerman has been honored with the Distinguished Early Career Award by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Children and Youth. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional contributions by early-career sociologists in childhood and youth studies.

Creating a buzz in Nature this week, a Mississippi State biologist’s research has led to the discovery of a new parasitic wasp species with unusual biology in the Eastern U.S., opening doors for future research in fundamental biological processes.

—Pierce, “Youth Poetry Writing Workshop,” 10:45 a.m., Galloway Tween Room; “Mississippi Youth Poetry Project,” 2:45 p.m., State Capitol 201A; “Book Signing,” 4:15 p.m., book signing tent. —Foreman, “Mississippi Culture,” 2:45 p.m., State Capitol 103; “Book Signing,” 4:15 p.m., book signing tent.

Brian Shoup, professor and head of Mississippi State’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, delivers this year’s Constitution Day lecture as part of the Lamar Conerly Governance Lecture Series on Sept. 17. The lecture, “What We Owe to Each Other: Civic Responsibility in a Narcissistic Age,” focuses on the importance of civic responsibility in contemporary society.

Mississippi State faculty members will tackle issues ranging from childhood experiences to emerging diseases to ancient literary collections in this semester’s MSU Faculty Book Talk series hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences.

Evidence shows that direct mentorship and support help students flourish and achieve their full potential, and Mississippi State is expanding a key mentor’s role to fully invest in this aspect of his work.

Mississippi State University’s Psychology Clinic invites the Starkville and university communities to make use of the wide range of mental health services including therapy, assessment and telehealth options at its new location in Rice Hall.

A distinguished Mississippi State postdoctoral research associate renowned for her groundbreaking work in wetlands ecology is being recognized by the Society of Wetland Scientists with two major honors.

A Mississippi State faculty member with more than two decades of experience in anthropology and Near Eastern archeology is now the head of MSU’s Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures.

Mississippi State’s new head of the Department of Chemistry in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences originally hails from England, but most recently was a University of Texas at Arlington faculty member with more than 20 years of experience in organic chemistry and biochemistry.

The winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction—one of the most prestigious U.S. literary honors—makes an appearance at Mississippi State next month for the university’s Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.

With a new understanding of past life on the planet through fossils, a Mississippi State biological sciences faculty member is helping researchers better predict Earth’s future.