MSU professor pens book on Shubuta lynchings
A Mississippi State University associate professor of history has released a new book chronicling events in a small Mississippi town that is home to a tragic monument to racial struggle.
MSU professor helps feed a community
One in nine people on earth do not have enough to eat; in America it’s one in seven; and in Mississippi, one in four.
Pearson named interim associate vice president at MSU
A respected Mississippi State management professor who has served in a number of interim administrative roles now has another at the university.
Prof. studies why Delta deer are biggest in state
There are roughly 1.75 million deer in Mississippi and they bring an estimated $1 billion economic impact to the state.
Man arrested in JSU professor’s slaying
Madison Police Chief Gene Waldrop says a 20-year-old man has been charged with murder in the May 21 slaying Jackson State University professor Garrick Shelton.
Ukrainian MUW professor keeping close eye on conflict
With Russia and Ukraine teetering on the brink of armed conflict, a local professor is speaking out about what is happening in his home country.
George Pinchuk, a native of Ukraine, teaches biology at Mississippi University for Women and his wife, Lesya Pinchuk, teaches at Mississippi State University. The two have been in the United States for nearly 25 years.
Internal email says MSU engineering dean moving to new job with school
Mississippi State University Bagley College of Engineering Dean Achille Messac will transition to a tenured professor position within school’s aerospace engineering department on March 1, according to an email sent to faculty and staff from the provost’s office.
Tuesday marks book launch for Smith’s heralded ‘Rivers’
Sept. 10, 2013. That red letter date has been a long time coming on Michael Farris Smith’s calendar. It was ear-marked many months ago by
Chasing Rabbits: Part III
Rachel sits on the ground by the road, leaning against the mailbox post. She watches the fire through the windows as it spreads from the sofa to the carpet and begins to crawl up the walls of the living room. Smoke seeps from underneath the closed windows in a slow exhale.
Chasing Rabbits: Part II
In Part I Sunday, Rachel awakes in the night to find her home being vandalized, hiding under the bed until the intruders have departed. Her brother, Stephen, urges her to leave for Ohio to live with their mother, leaving behind her meager life as a truck-stop waitress and every-scheming boyfriend, Dale, who is in Hattiesburg talking to some strangers about the dubious prospects of opening a buffalo ranching operation…
Chasing Rabbits: A short story
Rachel crawls out from under the bed. She takes her robe from the hook on the closet door. She had awakened in the middle of the night and heard the voices outside the house, then heard the back door forced open, and she slipped out of bed and onto the floor, scurrying under like an insect.
Rave reviews of ‘Rivers’ putting Smith at ease
Michael Farris Smith, wearing sandals, a white T-shirt and shorts, opened his Columbus front door Thursday afternoon looking laid back and calm. He admitted, though, that on the inside, his emotional state is quite different.
MSU professor arrested on sexual battery charge
Yoginder Dandass, 45, of 701 Sherwood Road in Starkville was indicted by the grand jury in Oktibbeha County for one count of sexual battery earlier this month. He was arrested Monday by the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Department.
A revered historian – the ‘cheerful assassin’ — inspires a surprise tribute by protégés
Some of John Marszalek’s friends are pretty good at keeping a secret. The distinguished scholar’s wife, Jeanne, was even in on it.
For three years or more, unbeknownst to the Mississippi State Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus, a network of his former doctoral students worked on a tribute to the mentor who had so stirred their passion for studying the Civil War era and its influence on shaping America.
Polk, noted Scholar and MSU professor dead at 69
Noel Polk, a widely respected literary scholar and English professor at Mississippi State University, has died at the age of 69.