27 MSU students receive Spirit of State Awards

Mississippi State’s College of Professional and Continuing Studies is empowering the next generation of leaders with its new, fully online Master of Applied Science in Organizational Leadership.

A long-term shift toward drier conditions is reshaping landscapes and livelihoods across the globe. Known as aridification, this gradual drying trend now affects 2.3 billion people and 40% of Earth’s land, with serious implications for agriculture and water systems—especially in the U.S. From California’s Central Valley to the Great Plains, often called the world’s breadbasket, farmers are facing tough decisions about what to plant, how to irrigate, and how to adapt to a future where water is no longer guaranteed. These findings appear in the Nature Water article “Increasing aridification calls for urgent global adaptive solutions and policy action,” led by Mississippi State University Associate Vice President and Professor Narcisa Pricope in collaboration with a team of international scientists.