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Mississippi State University and the Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity broke ground Monday [Aug.
August 10, 2015

President Mark E. Keenum welcomes student Fulbright Scholars to Mississippi State’s campus for an American South-themed course sponsored by the English Language Institute.
July 20, 2015

Dr. Richard E. Holmes became the first African American student admitted to Mississippi State University on July 19, 1965.
July 19, 2015

MSU President Mark E. Keenum, left, presents a maroon cowbell to Nihon University's College of Industrial Technology Dean Minoru Ochiai after the two leaders signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday.
June 23, 2015

President Mark Keenum speaks at Mississippi State University Friday [June 5] during a campus press conference about the Federal Aviation Administration designating the university as a National Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
June 5, 2015

Mississippi Gov.
May 26, 2015

Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives met Thursday, May 14, for a news conference to discuss the next steps and goals for the newly-named Unmanned Aerial Systems Center of Excellence (UAS COE), a consortium of universities that will res
May 15, 2015

More than 21,000 Mississippi State fans came to Saturday’s Maroon and White game and watched as Jak, bottom center, became Bully XXI. He accepted mascot duties from his father, Bully XX known as “Champ,” bottom right.
April 20, 2015

MSU officials including, from left, former coach Al Schmidt, track coach Steve Dudley, MSU President Mark E. Keenum, MSU Athletic Director Scott Stricklin, Nan and Mike Sanders, as well as additional members of their family, celebrated the official namin
April 13, 2015

Mississippi State University and Hinds Community forged a new 2 Plus 2 partnership program in precision agriculture on April 9 to strengthen the agricultural economy in Mississippi and promote the interests of farm families that are the foundation of tha
April 10, 2015

MSU President Mark E. Keenum, left, presents Shirley Kinsey, her husband Bernard, and son Khalil, right, with a chrome cowbell during the March 20 ribbon cutting ceremony for The Kinsey Collection’s “African American Treasures” exhibit at the unive
March 24, 2015

MSU President Mark E. Keenum gives a “thumbs-up” at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the on-course shelter at the 10th hole on the MSU Golf Course.
March 23, 2015

Mississippi State's Riley Center for Education and Performing Arts was recently honored as a recipient of the 2015 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, given annually by the Mississippi Arts Commission.
March 16, 2015

Mississippi State officials, along with members of the university's student chapter of the Society of American Foresters and the Campus Tree Advisory Committee, gathered today [Feb.
February 13, 2015

Mississippi State University celebrated the naming of the Robert B. Deen Jr.
February 13, 2015

MSU President Mark E. Keenum meets with the university's Freshman Council each spring semester to give the students an update on happenings around the campus and to answer their questions.
February 11, 2015

Moroccan Ambassador Rachad Bouhlal, left, accepts a complementary cowbell from Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum.
January 20, 2015

William B. Bynum Jr., left, president of Mississippi Valley State University, received a special cowbell from MSU President Mark E. Keenum.
January 19, 2015

Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum (front row, fifth from right) and leaders from other universities around the nation signed the Presidents' Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security (PUSH) at the United Nations in New York City on De
December 17, 2014

MSU President Mark E. Keenum, right, presents commencement speaker Haley R. Fisackerly with a chrome cowbell during Saturday’s graduation activities at Humphrey Coliseum.
December 13, 2014

Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum gave an address at the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday, representing more than 30 universities in the U.S., Canada and Central America that have formed a collective group with the focus of ending worl
December 10, 2014

Santa Claus met with MSU President Mark E. Keenum moments before the Bulldog Family lit the Christmas tree at Holiday in The Junction on Monday night.
December 2, 2014

Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum, center left, and Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman serve Starkville firefighters and first responders at the annual Thanksgiving celebration at Fire Station One.
November 25, 2014

Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum, left, congratulated senior football players in Davis Wade Stadium on Senior Night before the Bulldogs faced the Vanderbilt Commodores.
November 24, 2014

MSU President Mark E. Keenum and other MSU officials met Nov.
November 19, 2014

General Motors’ Gary Rushton visited Mississippi State Tuesday (Nov.
November 18, 2014

MSU President Mark E. Keenum, Head Football Coach Dan Mullen, and Lt. Col.
November 18, 2014

Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum was the featured speaker at an on-campus Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday as MSU students, faculty, staff and community members joined with millions of other Americans around the U.S. to honor and thank
November 11, 2014

Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum, left, discusses the university’s partnership with G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Administration Medical Center Director Joe D. Battle and Veterans Health Administration Office of Rural Health Director Gina
November 5, 2014

MSU President Mark E. Keenum, center, listens as a second-year architecture student explains the service project she and her classmates are completing.
October 30, 2014

Jeffery P. Holland (l-r), director of the U.S. Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, and MSU President Mark E. Keenum celebrate the signing of an agreement establishing the Institute for Systems Engineering Research Thursday aft
October 24, 2014

MSU President Mark E. Keenum introduces Mississippi Sen. Buck Clarke during his Honor’s leadership class Monday afternoon.
October 14, 2014

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