From leading soldiers in combat to managing wildlife damage nationally, Dr. Jimmy Taylor, '92 Bachelor of Science in forest management, '96 Master of Science in wildlife and fisheries, and '01 Doctor of Philosophy in forest resources, has spent a lifetime protecting and serving.
The three-time CFR graduate and U.S. veteran was deployed during Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom and retired from the U.S. Army as lieutenan...
Frank Owens, an associate professor in the Mississippi State Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, is the new president of the Forest Products Society, a premier international wood products organization.
Established in 1947, the FPS is a global network for professionals and researchers in the forest products industry. A nonprofit association, it is dedicated to enhancing the development of forest resources in an environmentally resp...
A Mississippi State University Extension Service fisheries specialist is being inducted as a fellow of the American Fisheries Society.
Wes Neal, also a MSU Forest and Wildlife Research Center research professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, will be among several newly elected Fellows of the Society recognized at the AFS annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, in September.
The designation is reserved...
A prestigious international organization is honoring a Mississippi State faculty member and two students for their achievements in forest products.
Assistant Professor Mostafa Mohammadabadi of MSU's Department of Sustainable Bioproducts is the recipient of the Wood Engineering Achievement Award from the Forest Products Society, an organization representing all segments of the worldwide forest products industry. The scientist in the F...
From some 8,000 miles away, Mississippi State scientist Manuel Ruiz-Aravena in the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center is studying flying foxes, or fruit bats, in Australia to determine the likely causes of viral spillover from animal to human.
The assistant professor in wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture watches thousands of signatures streak across his computer screen as a cauldron of flying foxes leave their roost ne...
A recent contribution from the Mississippi Forestry Commission is providing immediate, practical benefits for Mississippi State forestry students and the university's nationally ranked student chapter of the Society of American Foresters.
The MFC's donation of an enclosed trailer and $12,000 are enhancing the chapter's equipment capabilities and bolstering the College of Forest Resources' prescribed burn team, known as Fire Dawgs.
Wood rot can be a homeowner's worst nightmare. Spotting signs of decay often means significant structural damage has already occurred. But what if you could detect wood rot before it is visible?
Researchers in the Mississippi State University Forest and Wildlife Research Center are teaming with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory to identify the earliest presence of brown rot fungus in southern yellow...
Many Mississippi landowners and hunters are receiving black bear surveys this week in their mailboxes from Mississippi State University researchers studying how the public feels about the carnivore in the Magnolia State.
Sharp Professor of Human Dimensions Kevin Hunt in the MSU Forest and Wildlife Research Center—in collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, or MDWFP—is conducting the su...
A Mississippi State faculty member is being recognized by the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society for his exceptional dedication to service.
Joshua Granger, assistant professor in the College of Forest Resources, is the national selection for the Phi Kappa Phi Ray Sylvester Distinguished Service Award for 2024-2026. The honor is given to a member who represents the society's principles through ach...
A Mississippi State sustainable bioproducts student is one of only four graduate students in the country to receive a summer fellowship from the Electrochemical Society.
Ridwan Ayinla, a doctoral student in the College of Forest Resources, will use the $5,000 ES award to expand his research into green batteries and supercapacitors powered by biomass—the harnessing and storing of energy from agricultural waste products.
"L...
On a clear spring morning along the Mississippi coast, Scott Rush, a scientist in Mississippi State University's Forest and Wildlife Research Center, ascends over an open savannah in a specialized utility bucket truck designed to climb nearly 10 stories high. When he nears the top of the towering pine tree, where a sizable eagle's nest rests securely in a forked branch, Rush extends a dip net and carefully scoops up one eaglet, then the next, ...
Mississippi State Associate Professor Frank Owens sees wood as a window to the world. His forest products career has taken him to 26 countries where he has connected different cultures through the beauty of wood.
A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, he earned his bachelor's in international relations from the University of Minnesota and his master's in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles. He the...
Mississippi State scientists and leading experts in deer and prion research are weighing in on recent news about deer diseases and potential risk to human health.
A recent brief published in the journal Neurology stated that in 2022, two hunters from the same hunting lodge were afflicted with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD. Steve Demar...
Mississippi State is announcing a junior wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major from Southaven as the university's latest Udall Scholar.
Lily Langstaff is the university's fifth recipient of the prestigious national award given annually to approximately 55 students across the country interested in conservation and environmental issues, and Native American learners working toward careers in Tribal policy and health care.
As a...
Three Mississippi State University students—Kylie LaBelle, Sydney Maheu and Adele Taber—spark new meaning to the phrase "girl power" as volunteer firefighters with the East Oktibbeha Volunteer Fire Department.
Maheu, a Collierville, Tennessee, native who grew up in Chicago, is a freshman business major with the hopes of eventually starting her own business. She said business and firefighting go hand in hand.
"My mom...
The chief strategy officer for the National Alliance of Forest Owners presents the 2024 Carlton Owen Lecture, an annual event presented by Mississippi State's College of Forest Resources held in anticipation of Earth Week.
Kate Gatto will lead the April 16 public program "It's Not Easy Being Green: Forestry as a Bipartisan Solution" at 2 p.m. in Tully Auditorium, Thompson Hall.
"Forestry is one of the unique areas of society wh...
Deep in the difficult terrain of the Gulf Coast high marsh lives a tiny, dark and white-speckled bird called the black rail. These elusive birds that make their homes near muddy waters and among sharp-bladed grasses are easier to hear than see. Yet to catch their distinct sound "kick-ee-kerr" is a rare experience.
Black rails, along with high marsh-dwelling yellow rails and mottled ducks, are at the heart of the National Oceanic and At...
A Mississippi State junior will spend this summer in Germany as part of a prestigious undergraduate research program.
Surabhi Gupta, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major from Jaipur, India, is the university's latest winner of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst-Research Internships in Science and Engineering, or DAAD-RISE. DAAD, the German academic exchange service, and the RISE program provide research opportunities th...
Frank Owens, associate professor in the Department of Sustainable Bioproducts in MSU's College of Forest Resources, was recently reelected to the Council of the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA). Owens, who is also the current vice president of the Forest Products Society, is the only council member from North America. Having been a council member for the past three years, he will serve another three-year ter...
Two Mississippi State juniors hoping to shape public policy in the future will spend this summer in a prestigious and intensive national fellowship program that will prepare them for graduate-level studies.
Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College members Alijah Jones, a political science major from Greenwood, and Lily Langstaff, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture major from Southaven, recently were named fellows in the Public Policy...
Birds migrating from north to south are a given but migrating from the southwest to the southeast is a little rarer. A burrowing owl is overwintering on a Tennessee River peninsula near New Johnsonville, Tennessee, marking the first sighting of the species in the state, and a Mississippi State wildlife ecologist is researching the fascinating oddity.
As the burrowing owl made its first home on a former Tennessee Valley Authority fossil...
Mississippi State University faculty, staff and students today [Feb. 9] planted 140 trees to transform the College View Connector walking path in celebration of Arbor Day. The event also marked 70 years of the MSU College of Forest Resources, the state's only nationally accredited education program in natural resources.
"A third of our state is forested, and forestry is a $13.12 billion industry for Mississippi. Educating MSU students ...
For Aleria Story, a high-achieving master's student in MSU's Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, success is a combination of individual passion, drive and a strong support system.
The Tupelo native's passion for engineering blossomed through her high school STEM program, which introduced her to diverse engineering fields and opportunities.
"I chose Mississippi State because of its outstanding engineering program and lucrativ...
Several Mississippi State faculty and staff in the College of Forest Resources are entering the spring semester with new awards following the college's annual recognition ceremony at the close of 2023.
Dean Wes Burger said the college, as well as the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center, of which he serves as director, "accomplish great things in natural resource teaching, research and service because of the extraordinary f...
;Ray Iglay, an assistant professor in Mississippi State's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, is among a handful of wildlife professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada newly recognized as a fellow of The Wildlife Society.
The Wildlife Society was founded in 1937 and includes more than 11,000 leaders in wildlife science, management and conservation across North America. TWS Fellows are wildlife professionals engaged wit...
The future of fuel is practical, sustainable and green, and Mississippi State's Department of Sustainable Bioproducts is committed to discovering solutions that will power tomorrow's fuels.
El Barbary Hassan, department professor and scientist in the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center, has received a National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant totaling over $610,000 to take foundational steps toward producing viable ...
As wildlife researchers continue studying the spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal infectious disease threatening North America's deer populations, scientists in Mississippi State University's Deer Lab are sharing how certain management practices, including supplemental feeding of deer, can impact disease transmission rates.
Steve Demarais, MSU Deer Lab co-director, said minimizing direct contact by eliminating opportunities for ...
Mississippi State University researchers are pioneering a new way to detect the local presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal disease threatening the nation's deer populations.
Steve Demarais, Taylor Chair in Applied Big Game Research and Instruction in MSU's Forest and Wildlife Research Center, leads a team studying how scrapes left by deer could be a game changer in detecting CWD before noticeable physical symptoms surface...
While the gridiron brought Emily White's family across the South to Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas, she found her passion in another kind of field—the wide-open spaces of the great outdoors. White is the daughter of an NCAA college football coach—an occupation which can lead to relocation—and remembers a childhood spent fascinated by the natural world around her.
"I've loved the outdoors forever. I have picture...
Approximately 10,000 years ago, the last glaciers retreated, helping form the northern prairies in North America. Among dozens of waterfowl species, mallards and black ducks settled in what are now Canada and the United States. These species share many common traits, but they remained geographically partitioned until recent history.
"When the glaciers melted, mallards settled in the prairie wetland systems of southern Canada and midcon...
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