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
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: 
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: 
Scores of Michigan State University Extension offices and research stations across the state are jeopardized by a potential funding cutoff, if Gov. Jennifer Granholm blocks appropriations from reaching them.
Publish Date: Oct. 23, 2009 | Multimedia:
It is estimated that 40,170 women will die from breast cancer in 2009, and while much less common in men, they are not immune to the disease. It is estimated that 1,910 diagnoses of invasive breast cancer in men will be made this year.
Publish Date: Oct. 23, 2009
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:
Jean Tsao, assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University, will present a program on Lyme disease Oct. 20 at Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station.
Publish Date: Oct. 14, 2009
SCID, HYPP, LWS, HERDA, GBED: the letters can be confusing and their descriptions frightening for horse owners and breeders. To learn more about these and other equine genetic disorders, including where they originate and tests available to detect them, Michigan State University Extension’s My Horse University and the University of Minnesota are offering a free Webcast at 1 p.m. EDT on Oct. 21.
Publish Date: Oct. 13, 2009
A team of international researchers led by a Michigan State University climatologist will conduct a first-of-its-kind study to measure the effects of climate change on global industries.
Publish Date: Oct. 12, 2009 | Multimedia:
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