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Nderu named 2023 James Ian Gray Scholar in Entrepreneurial Studies

Nderu is a senior majoring in experience architecture within MSU's College of Arts and Letters, and he possesses a rare blend of artistic sensibility and entrepreneurial acumen.
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How Plants Respond to Environmental Threats with Proper Defense

A study from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) Howe lab looks at how plants respond to environmental threats in the correct way.
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Scientists Identify Win-Win Situations with Biodiversity and Farming

Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, or CSIS, identify ways for landowners in rural areas to be able to capitalize on win-win situations, whether they have fruitful land or not.
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Search for Senior Fellow for Research Infrastructure

The Office for Research and Innovation invites applications for a new position, the Senior Fellow for Research Infrastructure. Open to MSU faculty, this is a two-year, 50% position.
Art in the Board Room: Honoring the Wharton Legacy

Art in the Board Room: Honoring the Wharton Legacy, Dr. Judith Stoddart

Judith Stoddart serves as vice provost for University Arts and Collections. In this role, Dr. Stoddart is responsible for supporting those units across campus that hold significant cultural and intellectual collections that serve the research, scholarship, and outreach missions of the University, including the Beal Botanical Garden, MSU Broad Art Museum, MSU Museum, and the Wharton Center. She also serves as the coordinator for the comprehensive, campus-wide arts strategy which was showcased to the MSU Board of Trustees on September 8, 2023.
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Study Shows Machine Learning More Accurately Monitor PFAS in Michigan Drinking Water

Newly published research from Michigan State University scientists demonstrates how regionally specific machine learning-based modeling more effectively monitors levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals in Michigan drinking water compared to nationwide models.
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MSU Scientists Find Plants' Ability to Fight Climate Change is Weakening

New research indicating that plants' ability to absorb carbon dioxide may have stalled, suggesting that perhaps we shouldn't put all our climate mitigation hopes in too many plant-based strategies either, at least for the time being.
Spartan Tetrad Program

Tetrad Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research

The Tetrad Initiative is designed to foster new cross-unit and cross-college collaborations among faculty who have not worked together before, resulting in projects that create opportunities for extramural support of unique research programs.
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Rhee Receives NSF Grant to Study Plant Metabolism

Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee, Director of the Plant Resilience Institute, is researching the processes underpinning plant metabolism and how the process relates to other areas of plant biology.
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MacFarlane Called Upon for Deforestation Expertise

David MacFarlane of the MSU Department of Forestry was invited with a group of entomologists in February 2020 to visit the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to help examine declining bee populations in a changing forest landscape.