Mississippi States’ Thad Cochran research park aims to keep expanding
The land that used to be Mississippi State University’s 26-acre dairy farm now has more industry than university employees — and that is the goal, said Marc McGee, director of the Research and Technology Corporation.
DNA-collecting agencies use genetic data for research
A strand of DNA analyzed in a rape kit from 1990 was the key piece of evidence in Starkville Police Department’s 28-year-old investigation into the murders of Betty Jones and Kathryn Crigler.
Biden threatens funding cut if cancer trials conceal results
Vice President Joe Biden threatened Wednesday to pull federal funding for cancer studies that fail to publicly disclose their results, putting pressure on researchers, clinicians and drug companies to speed up progress toward cancer cures.
MSU, UMMC expanding research partnership
Representatives of Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Medical Center signed an agreement on Monday to expand ongoing research collaborations combating health care disparity in the state.
Feds propose multi-pronged plan to bolster decline in bees
The federal government hopes to reverse America’s declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making more federal land bee-friendly, spending more money on research and considering the use of less pesticides.
Gordy Forum to highlight student research Thursday
When Columbus native Amber Shoffner’s younger brother Jacob received cochlear implants and began speech therapy nine years ago, she was inspired to pursue speech-language pathology as a career.
Scientists withdraw report on simpler stem cells, cite ‘extensive’ errors
U.S. and Japanese scientists who reported that they’d found a startlingly simple way to make stem cells withdrew that claim Wednesday, admitting to “extensive” errors in the research.
Southern Co. agrees to coal research with Chinese firm
Southern Co. says it has signed a deal with a state-owned Chinese coal and energy company to work together to develop coal technologies, based in part on the coal gasification and carbon capture technology that Southern subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. is deploying at the $5 billion Kemper County power plant.
Research gives MSU a global footprint
While David Shaw walked down the halls of a United Nations building in Rome last year, on his way to a conference hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization, a host escorting his group told Shaw that there was someone he needed to meet.
“It was a black gentleman from Ghana,” he recalled. “He shook my hand and told me that he graduated from Mississippi State.
Vaughn named VP of MSU research
A nationally recognized authority on cyber-security and head of Mississippi State University’s computer science and engineering department is the university’s new associate vice president for research.