Leaders in Mississippi State University’s theater program, part of the Department of Communication, are adding to their faculty awards this academic year, showcasing the program’s outstanding achievements in theater arts and dedication to creative excellence.

Mississippi State University assistant professor, Amanda Patrick, is one of only 19 early career scientists globally to be named an “Emerging Investigator” by the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

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.