School of Planning, Design and Construction students are playing a major role in "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" during the show's Lansing-area visit. More than 300 SPDC students have volunteered to help ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” as they build a new home and landscape design for a Holt, Mich. family this week.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition:Student teams are serving as designers, supervisors and volunteers under the direction of SPDC faculty in areas of interior design, construction management, landscape architecture and horticulture and urban and regional planning.More »

Gross Awarded ESA 2008 Distinguished Service Citation. Professor Kay Gross, director of the Kellogg Biological Station, has been recognized by the Ecological Society of America with its 2008 Distinguished Service Citation. She received the award for her scientific contributions to plant ecology and her support in developing the institutional infrastructure of the field.

Distinguished Service Awards, 1954 – 2008, now online! Check out the photos and Bios!

Steve Pueppke, director of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and the MSU Office of Biobased Technologies, provides an update on the bioeconomy movement at MSU and around the world. Listen here to the Spartan Podcast.

Jeffrey Armstrong, dean of the CANR, discusses many of the college’s important initiatives and partnerships. Listen here

Also read an interview with Dean Armstrong in the MSU News Bulletin.