Mississippi State University Professor Matthew Brown, the Donald L. Hall Professor of Biology, has received the university’s 2025 Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, MSU’s top honor for research achievement.

Mississippi State University doctoral student Mayra Vazquez-Nunez was one of only 60 graduate students in North America selected to attend the 2025 National X-ray School at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, this summer, where she explored advanced X-ray techniques to address challenges in green chemistry.

Mississippi State University graduate student Max Wamsley is turning cutting-edge research into a real-world solution for the pet food industry.