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Local Government Relief Funds

Published on April 9, 2020
In order to assist our community members and partners, the Center for Local Government Finance and Policy has compiled brief overviews of COVID-19 response efforts as well as potential implications and impacts for local governments.
Sharpen Your Dairy Skills while We Flatten the Curve - Webinar Series II

Published on April 9, 2020
A second round of Michigan State University Extension webinars to help dairy industry advisors with continuing education during the current stay-at-home mandate.
Be on the lookout for a new pigweed species, purple amaranth

Published on April 9, 2020
Purple amaranth was identified for the first time in Michigan in 2019.
Michigan has muscle when it comes to agriculture

Published on April 9, 2020
Michigan farmers produce 300 different crops, providing Michigan residents with a safe, secure and abundant food supply.
Video demonstrates managing mustard cover crops for biofumigation

Published on April 9, 2020
How to grow, mow and incorporate mustard cover crops to maximize potential biofumigation benefits is explained in MSU Extension video.
What the CARES Act Means for Unemployment

Published on April 9, 2020
In order to assist our community members and partners, the Center for Local Government Finance and Policy has compiled brief overviews of COVID-19 response efforts as well as potential implications and impacts for local governments.
Successful learning at home

Published on April 9, 2020
How do you help support your children’s learning at home? What should be expected of children while they’re learning? Learn how to support your children’s learning while they’re home.
Venezuela: When Economic Policy Can do Little, if Anything, to Deal with a Crisis

Published on April 8, 2020
Luis Zambrano Sequín, Professor of economics at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, Caracas, Venezuela (translated from the original in Spanish with the assistance of David L. Ortega, Associate Professor at Michigan State University)
Ashley is an MSU Communications Fellow

Published on April 8, 2020
For the Spring 2020 semester, Ashley is engaged in training as an MSU Academic Communications Fellow!
MSU water scientist chairing international task force examining wastewater for community infection of novel coronavirus

Published on April 8, 2020
Joan Rose, the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at MSU, is leading the International Water Association Covid-19 Task Force's efforts to enhance water supply safety.