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State Tipoffs Involving Mississippi Newsletter for Wednesday August 21, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Georgia Southern Awarded National Science Foundation EAGER Grant for a $220k Project to Help Reduce the Global Warming Rate
STATESBORO, Georgia, Aug. 21 -- Georgia Southern University issued the following news release: Exploratory research by an electrical engineering professor at Georgia Southern University that could help combat climate change has garnered the attention of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) through a collaborative grant totaling $220,000. The research by principal investigator Masoud Davari, Ph.D., associate professor in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing, and coll  more

MSU Welcomes This Year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Recipient for Visiting Writers Series
STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Aug. 21 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: The winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction--one of the most prestigious U.S. literary honors--makes an appearance at Mississippi State next month for the university's Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series. Celebrated fiction writer Claire Jimenez speaks at MSU Sept. 9, reading from the novel that garnered her the prize--"What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez"--a 2023 Grand Central Publishing book.   more