Contact: Carl Smith

STARKVILLE, Miss—The top FBI agent in Mississippi visited Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum and other university administrators on Friday (Nov. 1) to reaffirm the agency’s partnership with the Magnolia State’s premier land-grant institution.

Robert Eikhoff, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Jackson Field Office, visited several MSU research facilities, including the Advanced Composites Institute, the Raspet Flight Research Laboratory and the Agricultural Autonomy Institute, and discussed how the agency and the university can collaborate to build a “stronger”. cohesive fabric’ for the future.

“This was a great opportunity for us to really share our appreciation for the partnership we have with the school. It’s unusual to have this degree of relationship with academia, so we want to celebrate and honor that and find ways to have better points of collaboration,” Eikhoff said. “We recognize the importance of academia in our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. We have existential threats that only together can we mitigate and hopefully disrupt and dismantle.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray named Eikhoff special agent in charge of the Jackson office in March. Previously, Eikhoff served as a section chief in the Operational Technology Division at FBI headquarters in Washington and in numerous counterterrorism positions.

Before joining the FBI, Eikhoff served in the US Navy as a surface warfare officer and later worked in the credit and recruiting industry. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Georgia State University.

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