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Staff profiles: Shari Conroy

After 31 years as an administrative assistant at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Shari Conroy has seen the facility celebrate many milestones. The most recent was the Department of Energy awarding the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams contract to the NSCL last December.

Publish Date: Nov. 06, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)Video(s)

Stimulus grant to help MSU team improve drug development from plants

Scientists at Michigan State University are receiving nearly $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to uncover how several popular plants make medicinal compounds.

Publish Date: Nov. 05, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

NIH comes to Michigan Nov. 11 to brief life sciences community

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

MSU research sheds new light on neutron stars

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: Video(s)

Michigan State collaboration spawns robotic fish to monitor water quality

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: Picture(s)Video(s)

MSU Ag Tech dairy judging team is successful at World Dairy Expo

Four second-year students from the Michigan State University Institute of Agricultural Technology dairy production program competed in a close-scoring International Postsecondary Dairy Judging Contest held during World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., in early October.

Publish Date: Oct. 30, 2009

MSU receives $2.5 million DOE award to build advanced hybrid engine

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: Picture(s)Video(s)

MSU Extension for the 21st century will move Michigan forward

MSU Extension has conducted a vigorous internal discussion focused on resculpting itself into a 21st-century organization, while continuing its dedication to furthering the quality of life and prosperity of Michigan citizens. The program now will carry that conversation to its external stakeholders, starting with partners in state government.

Publish Date: Oct. 28, 2009

Simple measures can yield big greenhouse gas cuts, MSU scientist says

New technologies and policies that save energy, remove atmospheric carbon and limit greenhouse gas emissions are needed to fight global climate change – but face daunting technological, economic and political hurdles, a Michigan State University scientist said.

Publish Date: Oct. 26, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

Miscounting bioenergy benefits may increase greenhouse gas release

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: Picture(s)

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