
A Mississippi State civil engineering faculty member who researches resilience against extreme events and natural hazards is responding to lessons learned from California’s deadly Camp Fire by outlining how to utilize the power of data to help improve disaster response and minimize economic loss and human harm in similar events.

Electric Cooperatives of Mississippi, headquartered in Ridgeland, is benefitting Mississippi State’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering through a $300,000 lead gift for updates to the Paul B. Jacob High Voltage Laboratory.
Bagley College of Engineering graduate student Tim Murphy was recently honored with the Barry Dempsey Bituminous Technical Contribution of the Year award at the Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference. Murphy is a distance education student studying construction materials through Bagley’s civil & environmental engineering department. “We are very proud of Tim’s accomplishments,” said Isaac Howard, professor…
The Carnegie Foundation has released an update of the influential Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and Mississippi State is designated as a “Very High Research Activity” doctoral university.

Generous support from Entergy Mississippi of Jackson will enhance the Paul B. Jacob High Voltage Laboratory in the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University.

Construction on the Richard A. Rula Engineering and Science Complex at Mississippi State University is officially underway after today’s [Dec. 7] groundbreaking ceremony on the MSU campus.

Mississippi State is recognizing four major outreach projects with inaugural Excellence in Community Engagement Awards.

An aerospace engineering major is one of four MSU students who are the newest recipients of outstanding achievement awards from the university’s Association of Retired Faculty.

Mississippi State University is honoring construction industry leader Richard A. Rula with its highest alumni honor. In a campus ceremony on March 1, 2019, the longtime Ridgeland resident will be recognized formally as the university’s 2019 National Alumnus.
Mississippi State remains ranked among the nation’s top 100 research institutions and the Magnolia State’s leading research university in a new report from the National Science Foundation.