Two Mississippi State faculty members will connect with their literary fans at the annual Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson this weekend.

Mississippi State University is leading a $4 million, five-year National Science Foundation-funded effort to study climate change impacts in the Mississippi Delta and increase resilience among vulnerable populations.

Mississippi adults will continue to be offered science-based vaccine information by the Mississippi State University Extension Service with help from a national grant. MSU Extension received the Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching and Engagement, or EXCITE, grant to provide adult vaccine education in Mississippi. MSU was one of 37 institutions chosen for this award.

A Mississippi State University psychology faculty member is adding a new title from the Gerontological Society of America to her accolades.

A Mississippi State University faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is confronting real-world problems with funding from two National Science Foundation grants, using math to address issues ranging from weather events to computational biology.

Kiswahili: how a standard version of the east African language was formed – and spread across the world

With the 2023 Women’s World Cup just days away, a Mississippi State University faculty member is leading the charge to increase visibility for women in sports, and her work is specifically helping shift media coverage of soccer.

Two Mississippi State University psychology faculty members won a prestigious Emmy Award at the 2023 Southeast Emmy Awards in Atlanta, Georgia this spring for their film about suicide prevention.

Professor Becky Hagenston in Mississippi State’s Department of English is adding to the department’s creative writing prowess with an elite short story prize and the release of six recent pieces of original work.

Mississippi State English faculty member Shalyn Claggett’s new work focuses on the subversive ways women writers of the Victorian era used popular scientific rhetoric—associated with the now-debunked theory of phrenology—to challenge socially constructed forms of power and gender inequality.

The daughter of a teacher, Winata said growing up in a rural village in Indonesia meant there weren’t many teachers around, so she took on the role herself, teaching friends and peers to read and count during their elementary years. “I have always wanted to be a teacher,” said the assistant professor of geography and geospatial sciences in MSU’s Department of Geosciences.

A Mississippi State physicist and her colleagues are the first scientists to observe how subatomic particles—known as lambda particles—are formed, helping researchers learn more about their production and formation in atomic nuclei, deepening the overall understanding of the dynamics of subatomic structure that governs most of the visible matter in the universe.