Community Engagement & Outreach News

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Vicksburg mayor to speak at MSU’s Conerly forum

Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. will discuss his work in public service Thursday [Nov. 19] as part of the Lamar Conerly Governance Forum at…

Image Alternative Text: Mississippi State senior Corinne D. “Cori” Reece, a music/vocal major from Aberdeen, will be among performers this weekend at an Opera Workshop performance in downtown Starkville. (Photo by Megan Bean)

MSU to present ‘Dido & Aeneas,’ ‘Scenes from American Musicals’
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MSU announces African American intellectual history workshop
Image Alternative Text: MSU will observe Veterans Day with a formal ceremony at 2 p.m. on the historic Drill Field. (Photo by Megan Bean)

Campus, area communities invited to MSU Veterans Day events

Mississippi State’s 2015 observance of national Veterans Day will take place all day Wednesday [Nov. 11].

Image Alternative Text: Demarcus Pippens, a Special Olympics athlete from Central Mississippi, gets in some reps at quarterback during a late October practice for the Unified Egg Bowl. The game, a fundraiser for Special Olympics Mississippi, will feature teams from Ole Miss and Mississippi State that will consist of Special Olympics and traditional athletes. Kickoff for this year’s Unified Egg Bowl is set for 5 p.m. Nov. 16 at the University of Mississippi intermural fields in Oxford. (Photo by Mitch Phillips)

Special Olympics athletes prep for Unified Egg Bowl
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Travel photographer Gary Arndt comes to MSU Nov. 18

Image Alternative Text: A design model created by MSU architecture majors shows shade areas planned for a community garden improvement project at the Starkville Boys and Girls Club. Involving a significant campus collaboration, the project also will feature six raised garden beds, two shade areas and storage space. (Photo by Megan Bean)

MSU team helps improve local community garden

Image Alternative Text: Mike Illanne, left, vice president of Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico Business Unit, and Bruce Chinn, right, general manager of Chevron’s Pascagoula Refinery, present a check accepted by MSU President Mark E. Keenum and MGCCC President Mary S. Graham. The $150,000 gift will support a new bachelor’s degree program in engineering offered through a MSU and MGCCC partnership. (Photo by Rich Kopp)

Chevron donates $150,000 to MSU/MGCCC engineering program
Image Alternative Text: studentspack 10,000 nutritious meals in an effort to combat malnutrition and aid in the worldwide fight against hunger.

True Maroon students at MSU pack 10,000 meals to combat world hunger
Image Alternative Text: Mississippi State graduate student Nick Timmerman moderates a panel including Stephanie Rolph, assistant professor of history at Millsaps College; Shirley Hanshaw, associate professor of English at MSU; Michael Vinson Williams, dean of social sciences at Tougaloo College; and Chris Taylor, president of the Oktibbeha County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The forum, held Thursday [Oct. 29] at the Hilton Garden Inn in Starkville, highlighted the struggle of African A

Civil Rights forum highlights struggle, progress
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ACT prep workshops set for spring semester

Image Alternative Text: Under the direction of Cliff Taylor, MSU’s Jazz Ensemble presents its fall concert Monday [Nov. 2] in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. (Photo by Megan Bean)

MSU Jazz Ensemble fall concert set for Monday