The Department of Communication at Mississippi State University recently announced the winners of the 2024 Faculty Awards recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service as well as outstanding lecturer.

Anne Louise Phillips is a sophomore English major who enjoys being involved with campus life. Raised on a homestead in Attala County, Phillips earned a prestigious G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Presidential Scholarship in 2022 and is using MSU opportunities to hone her skills and prepare for a fulfilling career.

Terry Likes, head of Mississippi State’s Department of Communication, is the winner of the national 2024 Broadcast Historian Award from the Library of American Broadcasting’s Foundation, in conjunction with the Broadcast Education Association.

Mississippi State students’ dynamic skills are known as “best in the country” after three broadcasters from WMSV—MSU’s radio station—won first place in the nation for Best Sports Talk Program at the 2024 Intercollegiate Broadcasting System convention in New York City earlier this semester.

A Mississippi State political scientist is among the inaugural slate of researchers granted funding through nonprofit Public Agenda’s Democracy Renewal Project aimed at exploring and strengthening voter trust and experience as the country moves toward the 2024 presidential election.

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.

Mississippi State claimed numerous honors at the recent Mississippi Association of Broadcasters Excellence in Broadcasting Awards, with the University Television Center taking a record 11 first place awards and its fourth consecutive Achievement Award.

Close family and friends gathered Thursday [April 18] with Mississippi State’s Army ROTC Bulldog Battalion to remember student Colby L. Marlow, described as someone who “set an example to not just soldiers, but to everyone.”

Mississippi State’s Institute for the Humanities is hosting an end-of-year showcase this month highlighting the 2024 IH Faculty Fellows’ scholarship and creativity.

Mississippi State’s Institute for the Humanities will host an in-depth discussion this month with a university astrophysicist and historian of science regarding current phenomena in space and what it means to humankind.