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Departmental News

(2011-10-19) A botanical collection by former Master's degree student Lucas Majure has revealed an intriguing botanical link between Gypsy royalty and a Meridian, MS cemetery. The story was published Oct 19, 2001 by the USDA Agricultural Research Service and can be viewed by clicking here. Additional coverage is available from LiveScience.

(2010-12-17) Dr. Karen Coats represented the American Society for Microbiology's regional branches at the ASM Council Policy Committee meeting in Washington, DC.

(2010-12-08) Dr. David Chevalier received one of the 2010-11 ORED mini-grants to form a multi-disciplinary research group with the goal of developing new collaborations in "Understanding Heat Stress and Foliar Bleaching Mechanisms" in plants.

(2010-12-07) Two Biological Sciences majors were 2010 inductees into the College of Arts & Sciences Society of Scholars. Deani Haggerty of Biloxi and Rachel Heintz of Oswego, Illinois were among the nineteen inductees for fall 2010.

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The Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University is home to 25 instructors and tenure-track faculty and more than 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students. We offer three B.S. degrees (Biological Sciences, Microbiology, and Medical Technology) and three graduate degrees (an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and an M.S. in General Biology, a distance program for science teachers).

Research in the Department represents the breadth of the Biological Sciences, including work in Cellular and Developmental Biology, Microbiology, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Our faculty have received research funding from all major federal funding agencies, as well as many state and private funding sources, and we have nationally respected faculty in each of the major research disciplines named above.

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