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Mary Peyton Barnette

When Mary Peyton Barnette walks through the doors of Partnership Middle School at Mississippi State, she’s not just showing ...
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MSU Club Pickleball team earns national bid

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Club Pickleball team has earned a bid to the 2026 Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating, or DUPR, Collegiate Nationals following a first-place win during ...
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MSU physicist recreates neutron star reaction, reveals how explosive stars forge elements

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State physicist has achieved a significant scientific advancement, producing a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during ...
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MSU Reflector named Mississippi Press Foundation’s top student media publication

Hosted by the Mississippi Press Association Foundation in Ridgeland, The Reflector was awarded first place in General Excellence among collegiate media during the annual competition, with the ...
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MSU delegation visits future home of Rome programs, takes part in personal audience with Pope Leo XIV

During a personal audience with Pope Leo XIV earlier this month in Rome, Italy, Mississippi State University officials presented the first American-born pontiff in history with a personalized MSU ...
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MSU-Meridian’s McCullum named president-elect of National Association of School Psychologists

A Mississippi State University-Meridian faculty member is the incoming leader of the largest organization of school psychologists worldwide. Charcelor “Chase” McCullum, a school psychology assistant ...
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MSU celebrates 12 school district teachers earning prestigious National Board Certification

Mississippi State celebrates teachers who recently achieved or renewed National Board Certification through the university’s World Class Teaching Program. Pictured front row, from left: Hagen Jones, ...
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MSU-Meridian 2027 PA class receives white coats in ceremony

In a time-honored tradition of the medical profession, 27 Mississippi State University-Meridian Master of Physician Assistant Studies students in the university program’s 5th cohort have received ...
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Barrett named director of MSU’s Water Resources Research Institute

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Jason Barrett, an award-winning Mississippi State Extension specialist with an extensive background in agriculture, is the new director of MSU’s Water Resources Research Institute.
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From the Eye of the Storm: New accounts of Katrina shared at MSU Price Caldwell Lecture

Mississippi State University’s Department of English will welcome Mississippi author and MSU alumna Julie Liddell Whitehead as the featured guest for the 2026 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series, ...
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Across the Pond and into the Field: Visiting scholar joins MSU Ag Autonomy Institute to ‘rethink the possible’

Pictured is Kit Franklin, a visiting scholar at Mississippi State University's Agricultural Autonomy Institute, at the R. R. Foil Plant Science Research Center, also known as the North Farm. Franklin ...
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Three MSU students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

Hannah Henson of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Jessica “Rayne” Rutherford of Huntsville, Alabama, and India “Alex” White of Saltillo are receiving one of the nation’s premier undergraduate scholarships for ...