Oktibbeha County is a county in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census the population was 51,788. The county seat is Starkville. The county's name is derived from a local Native American word meaning either "bloody water" or "icy creek". The Choctaw had long occupied much of this territory prior to European exploration and United States acquisition.
Starkville is a city in,and the county seat of,Oktibbeha County,Mississippi,United States. Mississippi State University is a land-grant institution and is located partially in Starkville but primarily in an adjacent unincorporated area designated by the United States Census Bureau as Mississippi State,Mississippi. The population was 25,653 in 2019. Starkville is the most populous city of the Golden Triangle region of Mississippi. The Starkville micropolitan statistical area includes all of Oktibbeha County.
Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science,commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU),is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville,Mississippi. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very High Research Activity" and has a total research and development budget of $239.4 million,the largest in Mississippi.
Amy Tuck is an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 2000 to 2008. A member of the Republican Party,she was previously a member of the Mississippi State Senate. She is the second woman to be elected to statewide office in Mississippi,and the first to have been reelected. Tuck later served as the Vice President of Campus Services at Mississippi State University from 2008 to 2019.
Northeast Mississippi Community College (NEMCC) is a public community college in Booneville,Mississippi.
James Harrison "Babe" McCarthy,was an American professional and collegiate basketball coach. McCarthy was originally from Baldwyn,Mississippi. McCarthy may best be remembered for Mississippi State's appearance in the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament when his all-white team sneaked out of town in order to face Loyola University Chicago,which had four black starters.
Area code 662 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northern half of the U.S. state of Mississippi,including the six counties that are part of the Memphis metro area. It also includes the cities that are home to the state's two largest universities,Oxford and Starkville.
Mississippi State Bulldogs is the name given to the athletic teams of Mississippi State University,in Mississippi State,Mississippi. The university is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and competes in NCAA Division I.
Dean Wallace Colvard was a president of Mississippi State University,notable for his role in a 1963 controversy surrounding the participation of the university's basketball team in the NCAA tournament.
Richard E. Holmes is an American medical doctor who specialized in emergency department medicine. As a third-year college student,in 1965 he enrolled in the previously segregated Mississippi State University. He was one of five black Mississippians who pioneered the effort to desegregate the major state universities of Mississippi as part of the Civil Rights Movement. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,his enrollment was the most peaceful of these efforts to that point.
Brady J. Deaton,is an American educator and the former chancellor of the University of Missouri in Columbia,Missouri.
Bully is the official mascot of the Mississippi State University Bulldogs in Starkville,Mississippi,and the name is given to both the costumed mascot and the live bulldog that appears at State games. The live mascot Bully is an American Kennel Club registered English Bulldog,and each dog is given the inherited title of "Bully". The name "Bully" is traditionally considered a title and not the official name of the specific dog that holds it.
William Lincoln Giles was president of Mississippi State University from 1966 to 1976.
Donald W. Zacharias was the 15th President of Mississippi State University from 1985 to 1997. He died of complications of multiple sclerosis on March 3,2013,at 77 years of age. Previously he served as the 6th president of Western Kentucky University from 1979 until 1985.
Thomas Brent Funderburk is an awarded visual artist and W. L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Art at Mississippi State University where he has worked for several decades. He is known for his illustrated-lecture performances and workshops,as well as for exhibiting his watercolors and other visual artwork in the United States. Funderburk acknowledges influences by watercolor painters such as Edward Reep,Charles E. Burchfield and Walter Inglis Anderson. His art has been featured in specialized art magazines.
The 2017 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs played their home games at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville,Mississippi and competed in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by ninth-year head coach Dan Mullen. They finished the season 9–4,4–4 in SEC play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the Western Division. They were invited to the TaxSlayer Bowl where they beat Louisville.
The Cobb Institute of Archaeology is a research and service unit of the College of Arts and Sciences at Mississippi State University (MSU). It was established in 1971 with a goal of promoting archaeological research and education at Mississippi State University. The Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology and its artifact collections are included in the Institute's facilities,and many of the Institute's staff serve as teaching faculty while having formal cross-affiliations with the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures. The Institute's archaeological research projects cover a wide geographic and temporal range,but focus on the cultures of the Near East and the Southeastern United States. Through collaboration with academic departments on campus,the Institute offers a wide range of opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at Mississippi State University to engage in archaeological-related research and learning activities.
Starkville–MSU Area Rapid Transit operates fixed-route and an ADA paratransit demand response service throughout Mississippi State University and the City of Starkville,Mississippi,United States. As of April 2021,the entire S.M.A.R.T. system is free to use. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult to ride on the system.
