Farmers in Mississippi and across the globe face critical challenges in land degradation and drought resilience, and Mississippi State University’s Narcissa Pricope will join other experts in land systems science in Saudi Arabia next week for discussions on solutions to these issues.

Mississippi State once again is celebrating an all-time high in enrollment with 23,150 students, surpassing 2021’s record of 23,086. Mississippi’s land-grant research university is the only public higher education institution in the Magnolia State to grow in overall numbers for nine of the last 10 years, increasing 11%.