To better serve faculty in conducting cutting-edge research into pressing social and scientific issues, Mississippi State’s College of Arts and Sciences announces this year’s recipients of the Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) programs -- the Faculty Seed Funding program and the Race and Racism Research Funding program -- an annual grant program providing funds for faculty research.

Mississippi State University faculty member Tara E. Sutton has been recognized as an emerging scholar by a division of the American Society of Criminology for her in-depth criminology research with a focus on women, Black families and LGBTQIA2S+ young adults.

Mississippi State University-Meridian’s Angela Savage, director of the MSU-Meridian social work program and an assistant clinical professor, is being recognized as this year’s Social Work Educator of the Year by the Alabama/Mississippi Social Work Educators Conference.