"Professor Joseph Thompson’s exploration of the longstanding ties between the U.S. military and country music doesn’t just help you rethink country music, but the ways in which America uses popular music to its own ends."

Mississippi State University is part of a European-American collaboration studying how human activities, like fertilizer use and polluting, are impacting nitrogen-fixing plants which are crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems by adding nitrogen to the soil.

A new study shows Mississippi State continues to generate a high return on investment for stakeholders with an estimated $3.9 billion annual economic impact.