Faculty & Staff News

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MSU employees honored for United Way service

Three Mississippi State employees are being honored for outstanding achievements by the United Way of North Central Mississippi.

Image Alternative Text: Dr. Bindu Nanduri of Mississippi State (at right) recently uncovered new information about the genes in S. pneumoniae, a common bacterium associated with ear infections and pneumonia. She and university colleagues Allen Shack (left) and Dr. Seongbin Park are hopeful the finding can be used to develop better treatment and vaccine options. (Photo by Tom Thompson)

Improved pneumonia treatment focus of current MSU research

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Michelangelo, ‘David’ to share spotlight in MSU program
Image Alternative Text: During her first formal presentation as a John Grisham Master Teacher this week, Mississippi State Associate Professor of English Kelly A. Marsh emphasized the importance of ensuring that all students’ voices are validated in class discussions. Marsh provided audience members in Mitchell Memorial Library’s John Grisham Room with an overview of strategies she feels validates guided discussion as a foundational aspect of students’ education. (Photo by Megan Bean)

New MSU Grisham Master Teacher encourages diverse voices

Acknowledgement of all voices and viewpoints is the key to successfully engaging students in academic discourse, according to a distinguished faculty…

Image Alternative Text: The Clothesline Project returns to MSU this week. Taking place on the Drill Field, it enables participants to create shirt designs that promote awareness of different forms of violence, as well as healing for victims. (Photo by Hunter Hart)

Clothesline Project returns to MSU campus
Image Alternative Text: In recognition of his accomplishments and leadership, Mississippi State Biological Sciences Department Head Angus Dawe (right) was formally appointed Friday [Sept. 9] as the College of Arts and Sciences’ first endowed professor. The Cornwall, England, native has been named the Dr. Donald L. Hall Distinguished Professor, a position made possible with an endowment created by its namesake, (left) 1962 MSU pre-medicine graduate and Vicksburg native Donald L. Hall. Congratulating Dawe and Hall is Rick Travis, in

Dawe named holder of MSU College of Arts and Sciences first professorship

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MSU welcomes newest guest for Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series
Image Alternative Text: Mississippi State is touting another historic enrollment, along with the largest freshman class in university history. (Photo by Robert Lewis)

MSU announces record enrollment, welcomes largest freshman class
Image Alternative Text: Performing here with the Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra, the Mississippi State University State Singers are welcoming middle and high school musicians from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee Sunday-Monday [Sept. 11 and 12] for the university’s sixth annual Choral Colloquium. (Photo by Megan Bean)

MSU State Singers welcome school choirs for annual colloquium
Image Alternative Text: Charles H. “Chip” Templeton (Photo by Russ Houston)

Templeton announced as Telehealth Champion at the South Central Telehealth Forum
Image Alternative Text: The Starkville-Mississippi State University Symphony Orchestra opens its 48th performance season with a fall concert Sept. 16 at Mississippi University for Women’s Rent Auditorium in Columbus. (Photo by Megan Bean)

Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra opens 48th season with fall concert
Image Alternative Text: Robyn Havard (second from left), executive committee chair of the Starkville-based United Way of North Central Mississippi, recently presented an $8,000 check to MSU’s Autism and Development Disabilities Clinic. Accepting were (from left) Alex Clarke, Dan Gadke Margaret Bernheim and Adam Weseloh. Gadke, an assistant professor of psychology, is clinic director, while the others are graduate students working there. (Photo submitted)

State, local and private donors supporting MSU Autism Clinic