From genetics lessons to environmental education, Mississippi State researcher Lourdes Cardozo Gaibisso is working to make science more accessible for multilingual students. An assistant professor of TESOL and linguistics in MSU’s Department of English, Cardozo Gaibisso studies how multilingual students learn science and how educators can create more effective learning experiences. Through a Design-Based Research and Implementation (DBRI) approach, she develops, tests and refines instructional strategies that help connect science concepts to students’ languages, cultures and communities.

Anne E. Marshall, Mississippi State Department of History professor and executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, is a finalist for the 2026 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, one of the most significant honors for scholarship in the field of American history.

Mississippi State University biologist Jean-Francois Gout’s contributions to a study highlighting key advances in the complexity of aging now are published in Science Advances, a leading peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.