Lara Dodds, professor and head of Mississippi State University’s Department of English, highlights the often-overlooked literary contributions of women in the early modern period in the new book “Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Future of Literary History.”

A Mississippi State University proposal to use cutting-edge tools to better understand and address “forever chemicals” in Gulf Coast waters is a finalist for a $20 million prize from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program and Lever for Change.