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Farms, tables and revealing vast impacts between and beyond

Published on November 17, 2020
A unique study in Nature Communications examines how food, energy, water and greenhouse gases create a vast front in the battle to feed the planet.
CANR names Roloff to lead Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Published on November 17, 2020
Gary Roloff, Ph.D., named chairperson for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
Li heads for the clouds with cyber fellowship

Published on November 11, 2020
CSIS's Yingjie Li named an MSU Cloud Computing Fellow
Shocking biodiversity decline more than one-solution crisis

Published on October 22, 2020
MSU sustainability scientist Jianguo "Jack" Liu is part of an international team of scientists analyzing new goals for nature in a United Nations effort published in Science Magazine.
New project allows steelhead anglers to track wild and stocked fish in Michigan rivers

Published on October 20, 2020
Michigan Sea Grant Extension seeks volunteers to use Great Lakes Angler Diary.
Networks, clusters and how global meat markets tick

Published on October 7, 2020
MSU researchers in Scientific Reports combined a network model approach with cluster analysis of meat trade in 134 countries from 1995 to 2015.
Michigan Clean Water Corps to be administered by MSU through new $1.7 million grant

Published on September 30, 2020
The Michigan Clean Water Corps, a statewide network of volunteer programs for monitoring lake and stream water quality, will now be administered through MSU with a grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.
Gary Roloff: Increasing academic opportunities

Published on September 25, 2020
Gary Roloff, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, sees diversity, equity and inclusion as critical to developing effective leaders in STEM.
Jill Cruth: Creating a sense of belonging

Published on September 25, 2020
Jill Cruth, academic program coordinator in the Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, is committed to making students feel welcome and offering personal and professional support.
New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure

Published on September 17, 2020
Sustainability scientists at MSU find policies governing wildlife trade and tourism sometimes have more success than intended to achieve some of the UN SDGs. Yet in some cases those paths have created roadblocks and detours to success.
Partnership between MSU, Sault Tribe encourages tribe members to consider pursuing natural resources careers

Published on September 15, 2020
A collaboration between Michigan State University and the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians is preparing tribal members to join the fisheries and wildlife management field through a graduate program.
CANR names special advisor to assist with faculty affairs

Published on September 15, 2020
Fisheries and wildlife faculty member will support culture and belonging for college reappointment, promotion, tenure and faculty development.
MSU doctoral candidate granted research award from Ecological Society of America

Published on September 4, 2020
Katelyn King, a doctoral candidate in the Data Intensive Limnology Lab, recently won the Exceptional Promise in Graduate Research Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Striving and stumbling towards sustainability amongst pandas and people

Published on September 3, 2020
Understanding how achieving one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals spins off more SDG success – or sabotages progress on another goal across spatial and administrative boundaries.
Joint MSU, U-M project studying effect of inclusivity on STEM faculty receives $1.4 million grant from National Science Foundation

Published on August 20, 2020
CLIMBS-UP, a collaborative research project between MSU and U-M to study inclusive environments in science, technology, engineering and math within academia, has been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.