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  MSU received $750K grant from NASA to study urbanization and sustainability

  Published on May 9, 2017
  In 2015, the MSU Center for Global Change and Earth Observations received three years of funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study Urbanization and Sustainability Under Global Change and Transitional Economies.

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  Landscape Architecture senior receives $2K grant from the CANR Undergraduate Research Program to support research on erosion

  Published on January 8, 2019
  Amanda Wakefield, a senior majoring in Landscape Architecture at the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction, received a $2,000 grant from the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Undergraduate Research Program fund.

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  RTI International and MSU receive $1.5M grant from U.S. Coast Guard to conduct the National Recreational Boating Survey

  Published on August 31, 2017
  RTI International and the MSU Center for Economic and Spatial Analysis for Planning and Management in the Land Policy Institute recently received funding from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to conduct the National Recreational Boating Survey.

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  SPDC’s Dr. Kotval-K receives $106K grant from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to innovatively address factors influencing the health of older adults in Michigan

  Published on June 5, 2018
  SPDC along with the MSU College of Nursing receives funding from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the 500 Cities dataset and design innovative solutions to address social factors that influence health.

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  MSU receives $107K grant from MDOT to assess the condition of Michigan’s public transit system

  Published on June 30, 2017
  Last month, the MSU Urban & Regional Planning Program received funding from the Michigan Department of Transportation's Office of Passenger Transportation to assess the condition of Michigan's transit system.

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  MSU receives $547K MDOT grant to study customer satisfaction, trip purpose of MI’s transit agencies

  Published on May 9, 2017
  In 2015, the MSU Urban & Regional Planning Program received funding from the Michigan Department of Transportation's Office of Passenger Transportation for a study on "Measuring Customer Satisfaction and Identifying Trip Purpose. . ."

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  MSU receives $104K grant from USACE to study web-based GIS tool for natural resources management

  Published on June 22, 2017
  The MSU Land Policy Institute recently received funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study a web-based GIS system in support of USACE’s Visitation Estimation and Reporting System and the Natural Resources Risk Assessment Tool.

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  MSU Construction Management Program receives $100K grant from the National Housing Endowment’s Homebuilding Education Leadership Program

  Published on February 19, 2018
  The MSU Construction Management Program recently received a multiyear, $100K grant from the NHE’s Homebuilding Education Leadership Program.

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  MSU received $247K U.S. Forest Service grant to develop tool for cross-laminated timber in commercial building construction

  Published on June 20, 2019
  The MSU Construction Management program was selected by the U.S. Forest Service to develop a construction time and cost estimating tool for use of CLT in commercial building construction.

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  MSU Construction Management graduate student earns $2,500 Irvin Yackness Foundation Fellowship to attend program in Washington, DC

  Published on November 15, 2018
  Shay Chakraborty, a CM graduate student in SPDC earned a $2,500 fellowship from the Irvin Yackness Foundation, which enabled her to travel and attend an urban development executive program related to her master’s research at George Washington University.

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  MSU receives $1.2M NSF grant to study intelligent social network interventions

  Published on December 13, 2019
  A MSU trans-disciplinary team receives NSF grant to develop a research model of intelligent social network interventions.

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  MSU receives $201K grant from Michigan Department of Transportation to conduct research on speed feedback signs

  Published on April 10, 2018
  The MSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with SPDC have received funding from the Michigan Department of Transportation to conduct research on the operational cost and benefit of speed feedback signs.

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  MSU receives $417K NSF grant to study impacts of social network interventions on engineering project outcomes

  Published on November 12, 2018
  In August, the MSU Construction Management Program in the SPDC was selected by the National Science Foundation to conduct research on “Understanding Impacts of Social Network Interventions on Engineering Project Outcomes.”

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  MSU receives $231K grant from Federal Highway Administration to conduct research on work zone safety

  Published on March 30, 2018
  The MSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with SPDC received funding from the FHWA to contribute to the development of highway work zone safety guidelines materials.