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MSU Researchers to Explore Climate Change Solutions Based on Indigenous Knowledge in New NSF Grant

In a new international joint initiative, researchers led by Emilio Moran, a Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, will not only work with Indigenous communities to document the numerous challenges they face from climate change but will also collaborate with these communities to explore their innovations for addressing sustainability, adaptation, and mitigation.
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MSU Study Finds ‘DNA Scavengers’ Can Stop Some Antibiotic Resistance from Spreading

For nearly a century, scientists have waged war on antibiotic-resistant microbes. Michigan State University researchers say they’ve found a new way to prevent it – by unleashing “DNA scavengers” in wastewater treatment plants.
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Building a Connection Between Forests and Drinking Water

A team of MSU researchers has shown there’s “untapped potential” for ensuring that Michigan forests provide clean and abundant drinking water.
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NSF Grant Awarded to Study What Happens When Plants “Overspend”

Researchers Berkley Walker and Hiroshi Maeda have been awarded a total of $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how plants compensate when they “overspend” the carbon that they take in during photosynthesis.
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MSU Announces Fulbright Student Awards for 2024-25

Ten Michigan State University students and alumni were offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2024-25 academic year. In total, nine Spartans accepted the awards offered and will be traveling to seven different countries to conduct research or teach English during the 2024-25 academic year.
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MSU Researchers Find Regional Variations in Concussion Diagnoses

Researchers in Michigan State University’s Department of Kinesiology found significant geographic variations in concussion diagnoses in United States emergency departments — with the highest rates in the South and lower rates in the Midwest and Northeast.
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Art is Revolutionary

Aspiring law student Amaya Aten is a major in James Madison’s Comparative Cultures and Politics, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities with a focus in Language and Culture, as well as part of the Arts Living-Learning Community. She uses her complimentary majors to study how language affects the way people interact, and how that applies to policy theory and how laws are written.

NSF CAREER Writing Group

This writing group is designed to prepare early-career faculty at MSU to submit a strong CAREER proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF).