MVSU "Slam Dunks" new outdoor Basketball Court
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By LaTunya Evans, Communications Specialist
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By LaTunya Evans, Communications Specialist

By: Donell Maxie, Communication Director
A person's legacy is about the richness of the individual's life, including what that person accomplished and their impact on people and places.
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Pictured from left are Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants Olga Ponomareva (Russia), Dr. Vikas Kadam (India), Ms. Omnia Mahmoud (Egypt), and Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence: Prof Dr. Vandana Saxena (India).

91×ÔÅÄ has been selected to host a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from India to teach and pursue research in the Department of Education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Dr. Vandana Saxena, an Education, Diversity, and Inclusion expert at CIE, University of Delhi, was selected for the Fulbright award by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

91×ÔÅÄ held its annual Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP) Summer Bridge Program this summer. The Program was held for four weeks and designed to help students transition from high school to college life and prepare them for academic rigor and life skills.
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By LaTunya Evans, Communications Specialist
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By Donell Maxie, MVSU Communications Director
Athletics in the Totten Family is a way of life, so it was given when Trasity Totten decided to become a basketball coach. The twist in her story is that she has been named a new assistant coach with the 91×ÔÅÄ Men's Basketball Team.

By: Michael Coleman, MVSU Communications Intern
The Black Collegiate Gaming Association (BCGA) is kicking off summer with education and gaming by teaming up with seven HBCUs for the Corners to Colleges HBCU program.
91×ÔÅÄ (MVSU) has partnered with the BCGA to assemble a gaming laboratory on campus for students to learn the preliminaries of gaming.
By Michael Coleman, MVSU Communications Intern
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded 91×ÔÅÄ over $3.9 million to continue funding the Upward Bound I Program for the next five years.
MVSU’s Upward Bound I Program serves low-income and first-generation students at Amanda Elzy High School, Gentry High School, Greenwood High School, Holmes County Central High School, Humphreys County High School, Leflore County High School, and Thomas Edwards Sr. High School.