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NSF grant to improve decision-making about network technologies

As the U.S. government and technology providers grapple with issues related to broadband policy, Michigan State University researchers are seeking ways to make business and regulatory decisions around such technology more informed.

Publish Date: Nov. 12, 2009

MSU faculty members receive grant to study digital health games

Three Michigan State University faculty members received a $284,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how digitally delivered games such as Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution can improve health.

Publish Date: Nov. 11, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

MSU study finds fatty foods, alcohol use often part of kids’ TV shows

A Michigan State University study has found that many unhealthy foods and even alcohol use make their way quite easily into television shows that are favored by children and so-called “tweens,” youth between the ages of nine and 14.

Publish Date: Aug. 12, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

MSU study: Girls game less because they have less free time

A Michigan State University study finds that girls spend less time playing digital games than boys because they have less leisure time, a finding that could have long-term implications on the technology gender gap.

Publish Date: July 23, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

Michigan residents to graduate from film training program

Sixty Michigan residents now have a career boost, thanks to a joint training program designed to prepare Michigan residents seeking employment in the state’s growing film industry. Michigan State University, Lansing Community College and Capital Area Michigan Works! will award certificates Monday to the program’s graduates.

Publish Date: June 05, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)Video(s)

New MSU lecture series looks at economic, social and political impact of information and communication technologies

On Jan. 30, Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences will host, “Where Next for Information and Communication Technologies for International Development?” The lecture will begin at noon in the Deeb Room (room 191) of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building. 

Publish Date: Jan. 23, 2009

Michigan State University professors offer holiday e-shopping tips

JupiterResearch, an Internet research firm, projects that online holiday retail sales will surpass $39 billion in 2007, with the number of Web users who plan to buy online increasing by more than 6 percent compared with last year’s number.

Publish Date: Nov. 20, 2007

Got tech, business challenges? MSU students want to help

Several teams of Michigan State University undergraduates and master’s students are ready and waiting to help Michigan businesses and nonprofits solve some of their technology and advertising problems – for free.

Publish Date: Nov. 05, 2007

MSU's Great Lakes Wiki receives national recognition

A Michigan State University experiment in environmental reporting is among the projects recently recognized by a national competition for cutting-edge journalism.

Publish Date: Sept. 21, 2007

Michigan State University launches ‘serious’ game design program

Michigan State University is getting serious about video games.

Publish Date: Jan. 29, 2007

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