Contact: Kenneth Billings

STARKVILLE, Miss.--Joshua Jeanson is the new licensing associate in Mississippi State's Office of Technology and Commercialization.
Jeanson will be responsible for identifying, protecting, marketing, and licensing intellectual properties developed at the university, among other duties. He succeeds Chase Kasper, who became the office's new assistant director last year.
Jeanson holds bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Mississippi. Currently completing a master's at Mississippi State in industrial systems and engineering, he has served as a research assistant at the university's Geosystems Research Institute.
The Southaven native holds membership in numerous professional organizations, including the Association for University Technology Managers, Mississippi and American Bar and American Intellectual Property Law associations.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.