STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) by his fellow presidents/chancellors at the SEC’s summer meeting in Destin, Florida. Keenum succeeds Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos. “I am honored to be chosen to lead and…
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI -- June 6, 2016 The Satchel Podcast Player is about to change the game for podcasters and podcast listeners alike. SATCHEL Founders Beau York and Briar Bowser have developed a brand new take on the podcast app which allows users to discover podcasts created near and for their local area. “We hear all the time how…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist, Mississippi Business Journal Feature, News, Technology, June 2, 2016. There was a time when football didn’t require much more than a haphazardly cleared cow pasture and a spheroid pigskin. “Sports rehab” was a taped-on aspirin and a spoonful of mustard applied to the location of the pain.…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, June 2, 2016 I’m a big fan of the ABC show “Shark Tank” for a lot of reasons. When it first came on, I quickly noticed how much it resembled our entrepreneurial development work at Innovate Mississippi. Now that the show has become so…
By Josh Mabus, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, May 26, 2016. Have you ever seen those “Free beer tomorrow” signs that decorate the walls of dive bars all across the country? No matter how many times you’ve seen them, they’re still a little funny. When you realize that every tomorrow the…
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that the firm is now known as Bradley. This change follows a strategic rebranding exercise that includes a new logo and signage, as well as a refreshed website with advanced technologies that will be unveiled next month. While the firm will…
STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Mississippi State University Student Technology Exchange Program completed a banner year with its graduation ceremony and also secured a $150,000 grant from Entergy Mississippi to promote future growth. A record 82 students recently graduated from the industrial robotics training program during a ceremony held in the Nissan Manufacturing…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, May 26, 2016 In 1993 I moved to Tokyo to teach English and study Japanese. The only Japanese I knew was “Domo arigatto, Mr. Roboto,” so I was looking for an immersive experience. That’s fortunate, because $2 a minute phone calls and the 14-hour time…
A network of cybersecurity experts working from their homes in South Mississippi are on the hunt for cyber threats in a multitude of industry environments. Rebekah Wilke, who works from her Bay St. Louis home, heads a virtual security operations center for Raytheon Foreground Security that provides advance cyber monitoring,…
By Dr. Sumesh Arora, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, May 26, 2016. The time it takes for a vehicle at rest to achieve a velocity of 60 miles per her is a commonly used performance measure in the automotive world. Given that today’s high performance cars can achieve this acceleration in…