Mississippi State faculty member Joseph Thompson continues to earn widespread recognition for his groundbreaking work on the intersection of music and military history, earning an international award for his acclaimed book “Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism.”

Mississippi State University is hosting the inaugural Social Science Symposium “Where Passion Meets Action,” an immersive program May 19-22 designed for students interested in studying social sciences at the land-grant institution.

The Institute for the Humanities, part of Mississippi State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, continues its annual lecture series this month with “Building Community: The Humanities as Social Glue.”