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Lisa McCusker of Gautier has been named the Parent of the Year for both Gautier High School (GHS) and the Pascagoula-Gautier School District (PGSD).

For most Americans, NOAA means weather, but this critically important federal agency is so much more, and the local office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wants to show you exactly what else they do to impact our lives and our communities.

The Mississippi Department of Labor has approved an apprenticeship program between VT Halter Marine and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

A Mississippi State associate professor of English and a senior English major serving as editor-in-chief of The Reflector represented the university as 2020 William Winter Scholars Feb. 27 to 29 at the 31st annual Natchez Trace Literary and Cinema Conference.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College received approval through the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) to begin offering an Associate Degree Nursing Program option on evenings and weekends.

A Mississippi State faculty member in the Department of Psychology is using nearly $1 million in federal grant funds to prevent alcohol and tobacco addiction in Oktibbeha County and prevent suicide among college students.

Mississippi State is the third SEC university and one of only 85 universities nationwide to gain accreditation from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Carin Platt, Improvement of Study instructor at the Jackson County Campus, was selected as a Dale P. Parnell Distinguished Faculty member for 2020.  Fifty-six faculty members were selected nationwide. Platt is the only instructor from Mississippi to receive the prestigious national award.

In celebration of Black History Month, Mississippi State’s Men of Excellence student organization is presenting its bi-annual State of Black Men Symposium Tuesday [Feb. 18] at Colvard Student Union.

Angie Thomas speaks at University Forum to give an honest conversation about the topics seen in her novels.

Mississippi State faculty, staff and students commemorated Arbor Day on Friday, Feb. 7, by planting trees along Hail State Boulevard.

Aaron Cleveland, instructor in the Instrumentation and Control Technology program at the Jackson County Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, has been selected as the 2020 Educator of the Year by ETA International, an internationally recognized certification association founded in 1978 by electronics professionals.

Angela Chandler, an administrative assistant for the College & Career Technical Institute (CCTI) for the Pascagoula-Gautier School District (PGSD), has been named Staff Member of the Year.

Singing River Electric and Cooperative Energy recently donated a collective $5,000 to Jackson County FABLAB to host two STEM education summer camps in 2020.

Five students from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College were selected as semifinalists for the highly selective and competitive Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. They are Edgar Marquez of Gautier, Austin Baldwin of D’Iberville, Ciara Brewer of Lucedale, Gloria Giddes of Gulfport and Katelyn Winstead of Ocean Springs. 

Two students in the Commercial Truck Driving (CDL) program at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College are participating in the F.E.B. Distributing Truck Driver Apprenticeship program that began in October 2019.  The two students –James Holland of Gulfport and Adam Graham of Long Beach– are scheduled to complete the program in eight to 10 weeks.