“I realized there are so many types of writing—you can write for a magazine, for essays, for news stories,” said Portia Agyapong, reflecting on her internship in Mississippi State’s College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office last summer. “Even though I initially struggled because I was stuck with an academic writing mindset, it was an amazing experience to learn different ways of writing during my internship. I really learned a lot from it.”

Kenneth Swan, a senior year Geosciences major student at Mississippi State University and Shackouls Honors College has earned co-author credit in a newly published journal article. The study is titled "Quantifying Tornado Outbreak Intensity and Frequency Relationships with Interannual and Monthly Variability."

Mississippi State University sophomore Isabelle Stewart is the fourth annual recipient of the FOX Weather Scholarship, a long-term partnership between the weather mogul and MSU that supports students pursuing careers in meteorology.