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Staff profiles: LaurieThorp

Laurie Thorp, director of the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, talks about the program's mission and benefit to students.

Publish Date: Oct. 08, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)Video(s)

Mobile lab allows MSU researchers to study air quality, health effects

A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain airborne particles - emitted from plants and vehicles - induce disease and illness.

Publish Date: Oct. 07, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

MSU scientists land $14.4 million to improve quality of fruit

Hungry to make fruit better for longer, Michigan State University scientists will lead a four-year, $14.4 million grant-funded research project. The grant is the largest ever awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative since its inception in 2007.

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

MSU pilot program puts veterans back to work

Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth have teamed up to put a dozen veterans back to work.

Publish Date: Oct. 02, 2009

MSU’s arthropod research collection to benefit from stimulus grant

Michigan State University's Department of Entomology will use a federal stimulus grant to upgrade its arthropod research collection, which is good news for students, scientists and others who depend on the 1.5 million-specimen collection for their work.

Publish Date: Sept. 30, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)Video(s)

'Art in Nature' classes offered at KBS

This fall Michigan State University’s Kellogg Biological Station is offering “Art in Nature” classes, featuring bird fauna.

Publish Date: Sept. 29, 2009

Animal agricultural initiative research pre-proposals due Oct. 9

Michigan’s animal agriculture industry continues to confront numerous challenges on various fronts while simultaneously seeking out potential opportunities.

Publish Date: Sept. 29, 2009

Green technology focus of a regional conference for black chemists, chemical engineers

The Michigan State University chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, or NOBCChE, will host a green technology conference Oct. 30 – Nov. 1. Registration, abstract submission and MSU Visitation Day sign-up are due Oct. 20.

Publish Date: Sept. 28, 2009

Michigan State to open new shooting sports facility

Target shooters and archers have a new location to learn, hone their skills and brush up on hunting safety, with the opening of Michigan State University’s John and Marnie Demmer Shooting Sports Education and Training Center.

Publish Date: Sept. 25, 2009 | Multimedia: Picture(s)

Planting trees was their Go Green challenge goal

Michigan State University Federal Credit Union employees are rolling up their sleeves this fall and planting 57 new trees in the East Lansing area thanks to their members who took the "Go Green 2000 Challenge."

Publish Date: Sept. 25, 2009

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