Mississippi State’s 3+3 Accelerated Law program is celebrating its first graduate, Caroline Griffith of Brandon, who earned her MSU bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies in August while beginning her legal education through the accelerated pathway.

Mississippi State University historian James C. “Jim” Giesen’s latest book explores the cultural, environmental and economic influence of cotton on the American South and its people. Released this month by University of Georgia Press, “The Land of Cotton: Culture, Landscape, and the Fabric of Southern History,” examines approximately 150 years of history and shows how cotton became more than simply the South’s signature crop.

Andrew Wilson’s love of weather has taken him from a Mississippi State classroom to a TV station and now into a hurricane. Wilson, a 2nd lieutenant with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, is part of the U.S. Air Force’s Hurricane Hunters currently flying specialized Super Hercules Weatherbirds from Biloxi’s Keesler Air Force Base into Hurricane Isaias as it approaches the Gulf Coast.