Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

News

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  MSU scholar who integrates people and nature so both thrive named to National Academy of Sciences

  Published on May 7, 2025
  Jianguo "Jack" Liu, known for both his work on panda habitat and innovative global sustainabiity, is one of three MSU professors honored this year.

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  Frans and Liu receive outstanding paper in landscape ecology award

  Published on April 21, 2025
  Landscape ecologists recognize a paper that promises to redefine the understanding of species distribution modeling considering human activity.

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  The rising tide of sand mining: a growing threat to marine life

  Published on February 21, 2025
  Jianguo "Jack" Liu and colleagues call to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity. In One Earth.

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  Russia-Ukraine War’s unexpected casualties: Hungry people in distant nations

  Published on December 20, 2024
  A unique study shows how the war that has destroyed Ukrainian croplands is disrupting food supply chains thousands of miles away from the battlefields.

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  Liu among “most cited” on global list of top researchers

  Published on November 19, 2024
  Jianguo "Jack" Liu, director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has been named to the “2024 Highly Cited Researchers” list, a ranking organized annually by Clarivate Analytics.

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  National Academies release multi-scale research report by committee on which two Spartans serve

  Published on October 22, 2024
  Two MSU sustainability scholars are on a prestigious National Academies committee releasing their findings Thursday about the best ways to understand the biological world.

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  Humans are the elephant in the room where conservation is debated

  Published on June 12, 2024
  Studies working to map conservation historically have left humans out of the equation. This study proposes ways to build in the outsized footprint created by people in wild places.

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  CSIS doctoral candidate named a Stanford Science Fellow

  Published on April 23, 2024
  Veronica Frans earns a spot in the prestigious post-doctoral program to work predict human-wildlife relationships under global change.

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  Moran and team earn Distinguished Partner Award for International Community-Engaged Scholarship

  Published on March 28, 2024
  They earned the award for their work on the Energy Convergence for Off-Grid Amazonian Communities project.

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  War a biodiversity enemy – even in peaceful locales

  Published on March 1, 2024
  Wars can threaten biodiversity in lands far from conflict, but informed policy has an opportunity to rein in profits that can cause long-term harm. In Nature Sustainability.

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  Grant to support PhD student pursuing sustainability research

  Published on February 13, 2024
  The new grant represents a way to pay it forward after Liu won a significant global science prize.

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  Study: World sustainability is different from sum of its parts

  Published on January 30, 2024
  Global sustainable development cannot be achieved by countries that act alone, a study underscores. In Nature Communications.

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  Anniversary lecture series brings prominent scientists

  Published on January 16, 2024
  Jan. 16, 2024 - The weekly Rachel Carson Anniversary Lecture Series brings a variety of scholars to explore aspects of sustainability and systems integration.

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  Pandas active posters on social media

  Published on December 19, 2023
  A new study finds the iconic bears check in with family, check out the dating scene and network. A smelly tree is their Facebook.

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  Getting evangelical about science to a Christian audience

  Published on November 17, 2023
  Veronica Frans joins with BIoLogos to talk put environmental stewardship in a context of Christianity.

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  Liu again recognized as global top researcher

  Published on November 15, 2023
  Jianguo "Jack" Liu, director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has been named to the “2023 Highly Cited Researchers” list, a ranking organized annually by Clarivate Analytics.

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  NASA-MSU award returns – applications open

  Published on November 13, 2023
  The program has supported more than 440 junior scholars from some 170 institutions worldwide since 1998 to present their research and interact with leading scientists.

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  Going with, and understanding, flow key to sustainability

  Published on September 20, 2023
  Sept. 20, 2023 - Devising a way to characterize how human and natural systems interact with each other. In Ecology & Society.

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  Balancing biodiversity, climate change, food for a trifecta

  Published on September 5, 2023
  Sept. 5, 2023 - Scientists identify ways landowners in rural Brazil can find win-win situations, with biodiversity with farming.

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  Brazil's soybean trade still harbors Amazon deforestation

  Published on July 13, 2023
  Growing and trading soybeans, a burgeoning global commodity for both human food and animal feed, has enormous environmental impacts. Explored in Scientific Reports.