MSU awarded ‘Voices’ contract

ATLANTA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Gulf of Mexico Program announced a $24,925 award to Mississippi Writing/Thinking Institute at Mississippi State University to work with students in developing environmental awareness content for ‘Rural Voices Radio: Voices Along the Gulf’. The award will support two school groups, Bay-Waveland Middle School in Bay St. Louis and Stone High School in Wiggins, and one non-profit organization, the Hancock County Historical Society. EPA will work with ‘Rural Voices Radio’ to guide participants and help identify, and learn about environmental issues within the Gulf of Mexico region. Participants will then write about what they learn and record a segment for radio. The Gulf of Mexico Program began in 1988 to protect, restore and maintain the health and productivity of the Gulf’s ecosystem in economically sustainable ways. A consortium of state and federal government agencies and representatives is made up of business and agricultural community, fishing industry, scientists, environmentalists, and community leaders from all five Gulf States. Rural Voices Radio (RVR) is a partnership between the Mississippi Writing/Thinking Institute at MSU and Mississippi Public Broadcasting. It works with children and adults to write and record radio content. Those radio segments from the RVR series air weekdays at 3:28 p.m. and are broadcast throughout the state, in neighboring states and via the internet. (Source: EPA 02/26/18)