Community Engagement & Outreach News

Image Alternative Text: The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll logo, featuring an eagle and American shield.

MSU earns prestigious spot as finalist on president’s community service honor roll

Mississippi State University is one of four universities nationwide recognized as a finalist in the recently announced 2015 President’s Higher…

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Project helps strengthen local foods network
Image Alternative Text: Six Mississippi State students recently teamed with members of Slidell, Louisiana-based nonprofit The Epworth Project to gut a house in Ponchatoula, one of many cities that experienced widespread damage due to last month’s historic flooding in south Louisiana.

Bulldog spirit at work: MSU students help flood victims rebuild
Image Alternative Text: Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, MSU President Mark E. Keenum, NSPARC Executive Director Domenico “Mimmo” Parisi, and Mississippi Speaker of the House Philip Gunn pose for a picture following Reeves’ keynote speech at the inaugural ‘Mississippi – A Data Driven State’ summit, held at Mississippi State University. (Photo by Russ Houston)

Summit showcases Mississippi as leader in putting data to use

Leaders in state government, education and economic development showcased the importance of reliable data during the inaugural ‘Mississippi – A Data…

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MSU’s T.K. Martin Center to host ‘Super Fun Run’ Sept. 30
Image Alternative Text: “Night Shadows,” an etching creation by late American realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper, is among 30 works by various artists on display through Nov. 11 at Mississippi State’s Department of Art Gallery in McComas Hall. Photo Credit: Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Night Shadows, not dated. etching. Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson. Gift of the Gallery Guild, Inc. 1980.150.

‘Artists of the Armory Show’ exhibit at MSU opens Sept. 29
Image Alternative Text: Award-winning guitarist, organist, blues singer and songwriter Zac Harmon will perform at Mississippi State Sept. 28 as part of the university’s Lyceum Series. (Photo submitted)

Blues artist, Mississippi native Zac Harmon to perform at MSU
Image Alternative Text: An MSU student works on a walkway at the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as part of Service DAWGS Day in August, one of many programs designed to engage students in civic activity. (Photo by Russ Houston)

MSU selected for national student affairs leadership program
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MSU researchers awarded NSF grant to encourage women in computing
Image Alternative Text: Mississippi State University’s student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects hosted PARK(ing) Day September 16 near Colvard Student Union. The annual event turns a parking space (or two) into a temporary park. (Photo by Megan Bean)

Paving the way for green space: ASLA chapter converts parking spaces into temporary park
Image Alternative Text: Leslie M. Corey (Photo by Russ Houston)

MSU employees honored for United Way service
Image Alternative Text: Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum speaks at the U.N. in New York in 2014.

Keenum to speak at agriculture data summit at UN