Human Sciences

The School of Human Sciences research is focused on improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities.

To learn more please visit https://www.humansci.msstate.edu/

Dressing Ham
Dressing Ham

A Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station scientist in the School of Human Sciences is hamming it up with a MAFES food scientist, an entomologist at Kansas...
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From Row Crop to Runway
From Row Crop to Runway

From the field to fabric, from row-crop to runway, cotton plays a pivotal role in dozens of industries. Scientists in the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment fr...
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From Seeds to Standards
From Seeds to Standards

One in eight U.S. preschoolers is considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control. One-third of three- and four-year-olds and half of five-year-olds in Missi...
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From the Cradle to the Grave
From the Cradle to the Grave

The ever changing family dynamic creates numerous opportunities for research by scientists like Drs. Joe Wilmoth and Tommy Phillips. The duo, both researchers in the Missis...
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Improved Care for Teens
Improved Care for Teens

Even though teen pregnancy is down more than 25 percent nationally and in Mississippi, there is still much work to do to reduce the U.S. teen birth rate, which remains one ...
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