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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak March 26 at Mississippi State University as part of the school's Global Lecture Series.

Rice will speak at 7 p.m. at Humphrey Coliseum on the Starkville campus.

Rice served as national security adviser during President George W. Bush's first term and secretary of state during his second term. She is currently a professor of political economy and political science at Stanford University, where she has taught off and on since the early 1980s.

She is also a founding partner of RiceHadleyGates LLC.