A gift of more than $120,000 in laboratory equipment from The Dow Chemical Co. will assist Michigan State University in establishing a planned Center for Packaging Innovation and Sustainability on campus. The equipment will help researchers associated with the center develop technologies for improving the environmental impact of product packaging and production processes.
Publish Date: Nov. 18, 2009
Based on evidence people work harder with a partner than when working alone, a team of Michigan State University researchers are pairing college-age students with a virtual workout partner to study the impact on exercise trends.
Publish Date: Nov. 11, 2009 | Multimedia: 
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:
Ensuring a sustainable supply of woody biomass for the state's first cellulosic ethanol plant is the goal of a research partnership between Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University, supported by Frontier Renewable Resources of Kinross, Mich.
Publish Date: Nov. 09, 2009 | Multimedia:
Officials from the National Institutes of Health will brief Michigan’s life sciences community – from academic researchers to entrepreneurs and industry scientists – on new opportunities.
Publish Date: Nov. 03, 2009
Research by Michigan State University scientists has shed new light on the properties of neutron stars, galactic oddities that are formed when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses.
Publish Date: Nov. 02, 2009 | Multimedia: 
Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist at Michigan State University. They’re developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.
Publish Date: Nov. 02, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University researchers have received a $2.5 million federal stimulus grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a prototype new engine and generator technology that can dramatically improve efficiencies and reduce costs of electric hybrid vehicles.
Publish Date: Oct. 29, 2009 | Multimedia:
A fixable error in the way carbon is counted in current U.S. climate legislation and in the Kyoto Protocol could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using biofuels, says a premier group of national environmental and land-use scientists.
Publish Date: Oct. 22, 2009 | Multimedia:
Peter McGhee, research assistant in the Department of Entomology, discusses his work with insects' pheromones to save Michigan crops.
Publish Date: Oct. 22, 2009 | Multimedia:
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