The following local students recently graduated from Mississippi State University and received their degrees. Their specific levels of recognition and the minimum required averages for each, based on a 4.0 scale, include: summa cum laude, 3.80; magna cum laude, 3.60; and cum laude, 3.40. Local graduates are listed by home town:

• From Laurel: Anna Gale Alexander (College of Arts & Sciences, summa cum laude), Taylor Dion Bell (College of Business), Susan Lynn Blackwell (College of Arts & Sciences), Mason Alan Blakeney (Bagley College of Engineering), James Nathaniel Breland (Bagley School of Engineering, summa cum laude), Karoline Hope Butler (College of Education, summa cum laude), William Jacob Foster (Bagley College of Engineering), Philip Kaleb Hilton (Bagley College of Engineering), Laura K. Jones (College of Architecture, Art & Design), John Andrew Lowery (College of Forest Resources), Steven Craig Miller (College of Business, MBA), Brandon Louis Shelby (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences)

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