Mississippi State’s Jordan Spencer is now the director of the university’s ACCESS Program and Specialized College Services, a new unit that expands MSU’s support to students with intellectual, developmental and neurodiverse needs.

A New York City high school junior swapped the hum of a bustling metropolis for the chirp of grasshoppers across the Mississippi prairie, gaining hands-on experience in entomology through a two-week internship this summer at Mississippi State University.