Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum (left) and members of the Powe family -- Sarah Powe, Pam Powe, Debbie Powe Miller and Amber Miller -- congratulate art professor Brent Funderburk for winning the 2015 Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award Thursday afternoon [April 30]. The Powe Award is a memorial to the MSU alumnus and longtime research vice president who died in 1996. It is selected at the university level from nominations received from the MSU community.