Research

Does Mississippi have the workforce capacity to compete for the fastest-growing jobs in the nation that require a four-year college degree? The purpose of this brief is to show that Mississippi’s institutions of higher learning, when leveraged as a value proposition for economic development, can support efforts to attract these jobs and play a role in reversing trends where many of the state’s college-educated workers are leaving the state, a problem known as “brain drain.”

This article outlines the Athlete Engineering BaseLine Ecosystem (AeBLE) framework. AeBLE is a collection of integrated innovations impacting human performance, health, and wellness. AeBLE integrates artificial intelligence-driven mobile markerless motion capture, embedded wearable sensors, and augmented and virtual immersive technologies to train healthy movements and mitigate at-risk motion patterns which can lead to musculoskeletal injuries.

This study examines the relationship between high school academic success and college readiness using data from Mississippi’s Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) and the National Student Clearinghouse. Outcomes for three cohorts of Mississippi public high school graduates are examined.

In 2014, Flint, MI, changed its public water source, resulting in severe water contamination and a public health crisis. This study examines the effect of in-utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Vital statistics birth records are aligned with other data sources to estimate the causal impact of water pollution on key birth outcomes.