STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Aug. 9 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: Mississippi State University's College of Arts and Sciences is launching an interdisciplinary initiative aimed at promoting outstanding teaching practices and collaboration within the largest academic college at the university. Teaching Excellence and Motivating Success, or TEAMS, stems from universitywide directives to increase effective teaching practices, said Kelly Moser, MSU Department of Classical   more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Aug. 9 (TNSres) -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: A Mississippi State University faculty member provides critical updates regarding the spread of infectious diseases and rise of chronic and degenerative diseases in a second edition of her co-authored book "Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present" released this summer. Her work on ancient DNA also has been published this summer in several highly laude  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Aug. 9 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: NASA is awarding a Mississippi State University assistant professor a $1.13 million grant to develop a new simulation tool to aid the design of hypersonic vehicles used in space exploration. Vilas Shinde of MSU's Department of Aerospace Engineering won the grant to develop a new flow stability and transition analysis tool, which will aid researchers and aircraft designers in understanding and predicting   more