MSU's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) is now accepting proposals through the Michigan Applied Public Policy Research grant program (MAPPR) for applied research on a current policy-relevant issue in Michigan.

The MSU Office of Research and Innovation is pleased to announce Manifold, a new podcast series that aims to take a hard look at today’s intellectual issues and controversies from varying points of view.

To use the Ability system effectively, we are encouraging supervisors to learn about subject tracks in addition to specific courses. Adding tracks to your new employees’ Ability accounts helps them start training quickly and with confidence. Using tracks ensures email reminders are sent and can improve compliance inspection results.

"MSU Scholars" is a new public-facing site showcasing MSU faculty scholarly activity at scholars.msu.edu. "Faculty Insight" is an internal site, accessible via MSU Net ID, and displays grant funding opportunities from federal, corporate, and foundation sources, along with experts at MSU for collaboration possibilities at insight.discovery.academicanalytics.com/msu.

Information about the partial federal shutdown and how it may impact faculty-researchers.

The Open Access Monograph Publishing Award (OAMPA) provides $15,000 to be used as a subvention in support of the publication of an open-access digital monograph of up to 90,000 words.

The highest national research award for foreign language education recently was awarded to the team of Xiaowan Zhang, MSU Ph.D. alumna in Second Language Studies; Paula Winke, Professor in MSU’s Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures; and Shaunna Clark, Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, for their research paper, “Background Characteristics and Oral Proficiency Development Over Time in Lower-Division College Foreign Language Programs.”

Following a rigorous review process, Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion for the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, has been named one of 46 American Council on Education Fellows for academic year 2022-23.

Gregg Howe, an MSU College of Natural Science researcher who is internationally known for his work on plant resilience and how plants respond to insect attacks, will be heading to Japan as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year to apply cutting-edge genetic technologies to the development of crop plants that will contribute to sustainable agriculture and food security.