About
These are workshops for the MSU One Team Research 2026 Spring Sprint. View the One Team Research webpage for more information.
Who should attend the workshops?
These workshops are open to any interested MSU faculty member. They are especially useful for faculty who want to test early themes, identify missing perspectives, meet potential collaborators, or help improve the practical framing of this work at MSU.
You do not need to submit an RFI to attend. You do not need a proposal or an established team. Interest and willingness to contribute are enough.
What will happen at these workshops?
Faculty will work with draft theme clusters synthesized from the RFI. In these sessions, participants will help sharpen theme language, merge overlapping areas, separate themes that are too broad, identify missing expertise, and test whether each theme is genuinely cross-cutting and workable. These are not pitch sessions. There will be no ranking and no winner-take-all process. The purpose is to improve the themes and the logic behind them, as well as identify any missing themes that should be added for consideration.
What are theme clusters?
Theme clusters are provisional groupings created by the sprint synthesis team from recurring patterns in the RFI responses. They are not final decisions. They are working starting points for faculty discussion.
How your input will be used
In the large workshops, faculty will work directly with these draft theme clusters. Submitted ideas will be used to refine the scope and language of each cluster, merge overlapping themes, split clusters that are too broad, and sharpen what makes each theme meaningfully a One Health theme using the MSU working definition. Workshop participants will also use the synthesized input to identify missing expertise, propose potential collaborators, and surface key governance, ethics, equity, and knowledge-system considerations that must be addressed for the theme to be credible and actionable.
After the workshops, OR&I will update the theme clusters based on workshop feedback and document the main changes in a short summary shared with participants. Those revised clusters will then become the starting point for the smaller working workshops that draft investment-ready concept briefs. OR&I will also share a brief summary of the draft themes and major takeaways after the April workshops so faculty can see how input is being used as the process moves forward.
What attending does or does not imply: Attending an April workshop does not commit you to joining a May workshop, endorsing a final theme, or participating in later stages of planning.