Mississippi State University welcomed a special guest from one of the United States’ greatest global allies on Wednesday.
British Consul General to the Southeast U.S. Rachel Galloway visited the school’s Starkville campus for a discussion with university President Mark Keenum on leadership and shared U.K.-American cultural and education connections.
Their meeting followed a day of tours and talks across campus for the consulate, who viewed Mississippi State’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Raspet Flight Research Laboratory, and the Advanced Composites Institute, ending the day in talks with several of the state’s aerospace and defense company leaders.
Mississippi State officials said Galloway also took part in a Shackouls Honors College “lunch and learn” session, where she discussed Marshall Scholarship opportunities. The Marshall Scholarship funds up to 50 American students annually for one to two years of graduate study at any university in the U.K. Mississippi State biological sciences graduate Madison Brode was the university’s first Marshall Scholarship recipient in 2023.
A former ambassador to the Republic of North Macedonia, Galloway began serving as consul general in Atlanta in 2022. She is one of seven U.K. consuls general in the U.S., not including the country’s embassy in Washington, D.C.
