MSU Baseball Championship, Parade and Nuclear Research, JSU Space Grant Project | Jackson Free Press

Mississippi State University is holding a parade through downtown Starkville on Friday, July 2 at 5:30 p.m. to celebrate their 2021 National Baseball Championship, which culminates with an event at Dudy Noble Field in Polk Dement Stadium . Photo courtesy MSU

Mississippi State University is holding a parade through downtown Starkville on Friday, July 2 at 5:30 p.m. to celebrate their 2021 National Baseball Championship, which culminates with an event at Dudy Noble Field in Polk Dement Stadium . The event is free and public.

The parade route begins at Little Dooey on University Drive and ends in front of the home plate gate at Dudy Noble Field. The parade will be attended by Diamond Dawg student athletes and coaches, track and field and campus administrators, as well as other invited guests and award winners, according to a message from MSU.

MSU will hold a ceremony at 6:15 p.m. at Dudy Noble Field to honor head coach Chris Lemonis and his 2021 national champion Diamond Dawgs for beating Vanderbilt University in the recent three-game championship series at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb . Lemonis, MSU President Mark Keenum, Athletics Director John Cohen and Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill will speak at the ceremony.

The gates at Dudy Noble Field will open at 2:30 p.m. The seats are allocated according to the “first come, first served” principle. Fans can take personal cool boxes, snacks and drinks with them into the stadium. Overflow seating will be available in the Humphrey Coliseum, which opens at 4:00 p.m. Free parking spaces are available on campus.

For more information, including a map of the parade route, road closures and open parking spaces, please visit https://hailstate.com/news/2021/6/30/baseball-msu-to-hold-parade-and-celebration- for-national -championship-team.aspx.

MSU professors receive research grants in the field of nuclear energy

Zhenhua Tian, ​​assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Mississippi State University, serves as principal examiner for a $ 800,000 grant to develop and validate wireless ultrasonic sensor arrays for real-time monitoring of welded dry canisters that store spent nuclear fuel.

The grant is part of a $ 1.6 million US Department of Energy funding for two separate projects. Rinat Gabitov, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences, received the other $ 800,000 for a project to improve the functionality of technical barrier systems by adding phosphate minerals to backfill mixtures.

Both grants are part of 99 advanced nuclear energy projects announced by the DOE as part of its efforts to strengthen resilience and use of nuclear energy, according to a statement from the MSU.

Staff on Tian’s project include Junbo Zhao, an MSU assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Intelligent Automation, Inc. and Orano Federal Services, LLC. Gabitov’s project is part of a collaboration with researchers from the University of Alabama and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

For more information, see ae.msstate.edu or geosciences.msstate.edu.

JSU Mississippi Space Grant Consortium Project

Kejun Wen, an assistant professor at Jackson State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, recently received a $ 28,741 grant from the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium to research the uses of bio-inspired building materials in space.

The focus of the grant is on studying the effects of atmospheric pressure and other hardening conditions with a new technology called microbially induced calcite precipitation, according to a JSU press release. The aim of the research is to develop an environmentally friendly and inexpensive method of binding soil particles in order to consolidate and improve the soil.

Wen’s project will also examine the potential uses of bio-inspired building materials on other planets, the press release said. The technical aim of the proposed research project is to investigate the effects of different reaction environments on the mechanical behavior of such bioinspired materials.

Mississippi Space Grant Consortium partners sponsor information programs, conferences, summer courses for teachers, and scholarship and scholarship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the STEM fields related to NASA. More information is available at http://msspacegrant.org/.