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This month, we talk with Dr. David Hoffman, the Director of the Office of Prestigious External Scholarships. He speaks with us about external scholarships for current MSU students and how to be competitive for those scholarships. Dr. Hoffman started his service to the Office of Prestigious External Scholarships as the Fulbright Program Administrator, Boren Scholarship/Fellowship Advisor, and the Critical Language Scholarship Advisor for the Honors college in the Fall of 2015. As a former Fulbrighter (Mexico 2003-2004), Dr. Hoffman is a firm believer in the power of international research, study and language training via these scholarships! Under his guidance, MSU has had at least one Fulbright finalist for six years running.

Mississippi State’s athlete engineering program is rapidly gaining ground in the science of wearable technology and human assessment — a growing field that holds exciting potential for improving athletic performance and mitigating injuries.

As home of the one-of-a-kind Paul B. Jacob High Voltage Laboratory, Mississippi State University is preparing future engineers for a rapidly growing field that’s ripe for innovation.

In 2015, MSU’s Space Cowboys soared above all opponents at the international collegiate rocket competition, placing first out of 70 universities from seven countries. That’s makes them the best in the world and they’re still climbing.

Mississippi State was selected by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2015 as the National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. That means our teams are writing the flight plans for a new industry right on our MSU campus.

At Mississippi State University, the next generation of cybersecurity professionals is being trained at one of the country’s leading programs.

Learning is supersonic at Mississippi State University, where students have one of the world’s fastest academic supercomputer systems at their fingertips.

As one of the nation's leading research universities, MSU is driven to lead the way in innovative research, discover solutions to real-world problems, and ignite the futures of students from across the globe. We are ready for the future. We are the future.

As a leader in integrated computational materials engineering, MSU stands at the forefront of research of mechanical responses for the brain under car crashes, football concussions and military explosions.