by MBJ Staff Published: May 1,2013
Tags: college, education, higher education, laboratory, marine life, postsecondary education, public university, research, science, scientist, settlement, state agency, state government, university, wildlife
HATTIESBURG — Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has presented the University of Southern Mississippi with a check for $432,307 in the President’s Conference Room at the Aubrey K. Lucas Administration Building on the University’s Hattiesburg campus. The funds are part of a settlement agreement reached in 2002 resolving long standing land issues on a piece [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 29,2013
Tags: aviation, college, education, higher education, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, polymer, postsecondary education, public university, research, researcher, sceince, school, science, scientist, university
ELLISVILLE and HATTIESBURG — The official opening of GE Aviation’s new plant in Ellisville will mark a significant uptick in the partnership between the manufacturer and the University of Southern Mississippi. Tomorrow, GE Aviation opens its new facility at the Howard Technology Park in Ellisville. Previously, the Southern Miss School of Polymers and High Performance [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 26,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, Congress, development, engine, federal agency, federal government, funding, high technology, lawmaker, legislative, research, rockety, science, scientist, Senate, Senator, space, space exploration, technology, test, test stand, testing
HANCOCK COUNTY – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) wants NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to continue providing Congress information that will help ensure the upgrade of the Stennis Space Center’s B-2 test stand remains on schedule. Cochran addressed the NASA budget at a Senate Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing where Bolden provided testimony on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 25,2013
Tags: college, current, drift card, education, energy, gulf, higher education, oil spill, public university, research, researcher, science, scientist, university, water
GULF OF MEXICO — A Texas A&M University research program could put cash in a finder’s pocket for something that washes ashore along the Gulf of Mexico. So-called “drift cards” are meant to study ocean currents. People who report the location of the biodegradable notes will be eligible to win a $25 gift card. Piers [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 15,2013
Tags: aerodefense, aerospace, aid, college, defense, development, funding, grant, high technology, military, public university, research, researcher, rocket, science, scientist, space, space exploration, spaceship
STARKVILLE — NASA has awarded grants to nine universities for advanced development activities for the nation’s next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). The agency is providing approximately $2.25 million that will be shared by all the proposals under this NASA Research Announcement to seek solutions to evolve the launch vehicle from its initial [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 14,2013
Tags: agriculture, climate, college, food, fruit, garden, higher education, horticulture, public university, researcher, reserarch, rooftop garden, science, scientist, study, vegetable
GULFPORT — Horticulture scientists at Mississippi State University are studying and recording the effects of the coastal climate on rooftop gardens in Gulfport. When they learned the eight green roofs at the Armed Forces Retirement Home were struggling to survive, Christine Coker and Gary Bachman, both horticulture scientists at MSU’s Coastal Research and Extension Center, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 7,2012
Tags: agriculture, award, beetle, education, forest, forester, forestry, higher education, insect, pest, pine tree, prevention, public university, research, science, scientist, timber, timberland, tree, wood
STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State University Extension Service recently gained national recognition for a program designed to protect the state’s timberlands from an insect pest. The Mississippi Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program received the 2012 Family Forests Education Award at the Society of American Foresters’ national convention, held in Spokane, Wash. The honor is given [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 5,2012
Tags: agriculture, commodity, development, education, farm, farmer, farming, field, higher education, moisture, plant, professor, report, research, researcher, rice, row crop, science, scientist, study, test, university, water
STONEVILLE — Ten years of research indicates that a water management strategy can save rice producers money on fuel and conserve water without hurting yields. Joe Massey, a scientist with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and professor in Mississippi State University’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, has focused his career on water [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 26,2012
Tags: agriculture, animal, bat, ecosystem, education, environment, Extension Service, farm, farmer, farming, fungus, higher education, insect, insecticide, mammal, mortality, pesticiade, public university, research, researcher, science, scientist, wildlife
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Bats, an organic method of pest control, may become rare in the United States and Canada. The primary predators of night-flying insects, bats reduce the need for chemical pesticides and save the agriculture industry an estimated $3 billion per year in pest-control costs. But bat populations across the Eastern United States are [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 20,2012
Tags: developer, development, economic development, education, employee, expand, expansion, higher education, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plastics, polymer, research, researcher, science, scientist, work, worker
HATTIESBURG — The Manufacturing Extension Partnership of Mississippi (MEP.ms) reports the Mississippi Polymer Institute provided outstanding technical assistance to four Mississippi-based manufacturing companies, yielding $2.9 million in direct financial impact during the 2012 fiscal year. This assistance also led to the creation of 18 news jobs in the state. This work was reflected by independent [...] [...]
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