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Mississippi’s AI Ambitions Take Shape With NVIDIA Partnership
Government Technology
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July 10, 2025
Mississippi is carving a new path in its artificial intelligence landscape by partnering with technology company NVIDIA to expand AI education, research and workforce development across the state. Similar to other NVIDIA partnerships in...
SLU Research Explores Depression's Ripple Effect on Diabetes
Newswise
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July 10, 2025
Newswise — ST. LOUIS — A study conducted by researchers at Saint Louis University found that patients with depression were more likely to have uncontrolled diabetes over time and that depression contributes to a heightened economic burden to...
Hyde-Smith advances agriculture funding bill for Mississippi's needs
Hinds Today - Mississippi
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July 10, 2025
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, US Senator for Mississippi | Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith official websiteSenator Cindy Hyde-Smith, US Senator for Mississippi | Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith official website U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced that...
Mississippi State scientists make progress against resistant weeds
Mississippi State University
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July 9, 2025
Contact: Anslee Boyd STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is one of 10 land-grant universities leading a nationwide effort to combat herbicide resistant weeds threatening U.S. soybean production. Supported by a $500,000 grant from the United...
Mississippi picked wrong state bird
Gazette
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July 9, 2025
The mockingbird is Mississippi’s official state bird; I looked it up. After spending several days in our neighboring state a few years ago, I’m of the opinion that whoever chose the mocker picked the wrong bird. The right choice, in my opinion,...
STEM Scale-Up program engages children, local organizations and schools in science, technology, engineering, math at…
The Gazette - Iowa
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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in STEM in Iowa 2025, an annual special section distributed in The Gazette that provides an in-depth look at how this...
What to know about the layoffs at the Science Museum of Minnesota
St. Cloud Times - Minnesota
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The Science Museum of Minnesota is laying off 43 full-time employees, or 13% of its workforce, in response to diminished attendance and decreased government support, the institution announced July 9. In its statement, the museum said the changes...
Lime may remove carbon, not emit it, new research says
AGDAILY - Michigan
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July 10, 2025
DAILY Bites New Yale-led research challenges global assumptions, showing lime can remove carbon dioxide from soil rather than emit it. Acidic inputs from fertilizer and pollution, not lime itself, are the main driver of carbon dioxide emissions...
Cash in black carp for $100 and help invasive species research
Stuttgart Daily Leader - Arkansas
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July 10, 2025
LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources are mapping the spread of invasive black carp throughout the Mississippi River Basin through a program called “Keep, Cool, Call.” Arkansas anglers may...
Health cuts put 8 rural Mississippi hospitals 'at-risk' of closing. Here's why
The Clarion Ledger - Mississippi
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Eight rural Mississippi hospitals are at risk of closing due to financial strain. The hospitals are at risk because of low Medicaid payer mix and/or consecutive years of negative profit margins. Recent healthcare legislation reducing Medicaid...
Person of the Day | Joe Austin and the Tallahatchies: ‘It’s Very Mississippi, You Know?’
Mississippi Free Press
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July 10, 2025
Years ago, Labelle Turner adjusted his bass guitar in his lap before his fingers play the opening notes of Ricky Skaggs’ “Honey, Won’t You Open That Door?” He worked hard, and there was no better way for him to unwind from his days as a...
Is it safe to eat catfish caught in the Mississippi River? Curious Louisiana investigates.
The Advocate - Louisiana
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Louisiana residents with a penchant for fishing in the Mississippi River can skip the trip to the grocery store for their next Friday fish fry, because the experts have spoken: There is zero chance that eating catfish caught in the river will...
STEM education could strengthen Mississippi
The Clarion Ledger - Mississippi
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Nearly 200 Mississippi high school students participated in a STEM summer camp focused on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). The camp, a partnership between Jackson State University, ExxonMobil, and Rice University, provided hands-on...
Experts on Esparto Fireworks Explosion | DNA Analysis at the Davis Science Cafe | Dave Brubeck Concert at Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
Capradio - California
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Family members of Jhony and Jesus Ramos put up signs asking for justice Monday, July 7, 2025, in Esparto. Gerardo Zavala/CapRadio Firework and explosion experts weigh in on the deadly Esparto warehouse explosion. Also, Davis Science Cafe explores...
Agricultural liming in the US is a large CO₂ sink, say researchers
Phys.org
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July 9, 2025
Adding lime to agricultural soils can remove CO2 from the atmosphere, rather than cause CO2 emissions, claims new research. The findings, based on more than 100 years of data from the Mississippi River basin and detailed computer modeling, run...
Mississippi State University Launches AI Master’s Degree
Government Technology
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July 7, 2025
Starting this fall, Mississippi State University will offer artificial intelligence as a focus at the graduate level. Aiming to prepare students for in-demand jobs, the university’s new master’s degree program builds on recent initiatives to...
Mississippi State to develop autonomous soaring for federal DARPA Albatross program
Mississippi State University
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July 7, 2025
Contact: Claire Wilson STARKVILLE, Miss.—The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has selected Mississippi State University’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory to be a prime performer for its groundbreaking Albatross...
ASU-Newport chancellor to depart for president’s role at Rust College in Mississippi
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 9, 2025
Johnny Moore, who has been chancellor of Arkansas State University-Newport for more than four years, will depart at the end of the month to take over as leader of a college in Mississippi. Serving as ASU-Newport's chancellor "has been one of the...
‘A Good Deal of Nostalgia’: New York’s Uneven Embrace of the Science of Reading
Education Week
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July 9, 2025
An ongoing effort in New York state to encourage schools to adopt the “science of reading” is seeing some early success, according to a new survey, with the majority of educators reporting that their schools have adopted evidence-based...
Research reveals the identity of the enslaved teen girl in this 1848 New Orleans painting
Nola - Louisiana
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In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the premier slave traders in New Orleans. The painting may have been a memorial to the central figure, 5-year-old William Slacum...