Mississippi State University

Perrin Crews recently graduated from the University of Mississippi with degrees in political science and Spanish. Despite academic accomplishments that included enrollment in the Barksdale Honors College at Ole Miss, he is not immediately headed into...

There's only so much a student can learn within the confines of a classroom when it comes to automotive engineering. In order to better equip future generations of engineers with hands-on experience, the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors have...

The first thing Raven Proby notices about people she meets are their smiles -- or rather, their teeth. The Cathedral School senior's fascination with teeth turned from always nagging her friends about brushing and flossing to considering a career in...

The future of business and education met the present Tuesday morning with an announcement by CREATE Foundation, Toyota Education Endowment and Mississippi State University that students in 14 Northeast Mississippi high schools will be eligible in...

People who are deaf must overcome hurdles in their lives, much like other people who have physical challenges. When Ramon Alford, who has been deaf since he was 18 months old, was at a mall recently with some of his deaf friends, they all got to...

High school students from three Northeast Mississippi counties soon will learn from university professors how to create, market and sell smart phone applications. Mississippi State University announced a new partnership with the Toyota Education...

Mississippi State University has crossed a big hurdle in its quest to bring a chapter of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society to its campus. The institution was recently notified it passed a round of cuts of universities applying to PBK, MSU...

The Moss Point mayor's race in the May 7 primary election features an incumbent and two challengers. Incumbent Aneice Liddell has served as mayor since 2009. One of her opponents, Billy Broomfield, is currently a state representative for District 110....

A May 7 execution by lethal injection was set Thursday for death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning. He was convicted in the murders of two Mississippi State University students in Oktibbeha County. On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his...

Education Ross Vaughn, associate dean of the College of Education, will retire at the end of spring semester after 40 years with Boise State University. Vaughn joined the Boise State faculty in 1973 and during his tenure served as: head baseball...

In a week-long series that concluded on Friday, the Daily Journal looked at the critical importance of good teachers to the success of Mississippi schoolchildren and examined ways to attract more of the state's brightest college students to the...

CHICAGO — There's a scary bedtime story on money in politics about how the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling unleashed a tidal wave of corporate cash into politics and drowned out the voices of the little people. But as researchers...