From left to right, Amy Tuck, vice president for campus services, Karen Bishop, of the Mississippi Development Authority, and David Sparks, of the Tennessee Valley Authority, attend Wednesday's press conference to announce a U.S. Department of Energy grant awarded to help Mississippi create an energy efficiency retrofit strategy for the state's Institutions of Higher Learning. The $725,000 grant is complemented by an additional $150,000 commitment by the Tennessee Valley Authority to each university in its service area.