The New Partnership for Africa’s Development and Michigan State University will use a five-year, $10.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to connect African biosafety regulators with advances in technology – an initiative aimed at reducing poverty through improved agricultural practices.
Publish Date: Oct. 15, 2009 | Multimedia: 
James Pritchett, director of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University, discusses how International Studies and Programs mobilize resources and bring students and professors together to study cultures.
Publish Date: Sept. 03, 2009 | Multimedia: 
History professor David Robinson speaks about his research on Islam in Africa.
Publish Date: Aug. 27, 2009 | Multimedia:
Catherine Foley, MATRIX digital librarian, discusses her collaboration with history professor David Robinson to create a database of photos and audio regarding his current research examining Islamic cultures in west Africa.
Publish Date: Aug. 13, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University researchers will use a $750,000 federal grant to collect oral narratives from African citizens who often are left out of the official written record.
Publish Date: Aug. 12, 2009 | Multimedia:
A new federal grant will help a Michigan State University history professor and colleagues to document the lives of Muslims in West Africa.
Publish Date: Aug. 06, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University is a world leader in using environmental research aimed at fighting poverty and slowing climate change. Called Carbon2Markets, the research encompasses many collaborative projects with researchers and farmers in Thailand, Laos and other Asian and African countries to incorporate new crops such as jatropha trees into farming operations.
Publish Date: June 26, 2009 | Multimedia:
A Michigan State University student project to provide supplemental meals and build a safe house in Zonkiziziwe, South Africa, will receive funds from former President Bill Clinton's youth humanitarian program.
Publish Date: June 17, 2009 | Multimedia:
To Amy McLean, nothing is more personally fulfilling than improving the livelihood of mistreated animals. This lifetime love and appreciation for animals, especially mules and donkeys, has led McLean to Mali, a country in western Africa, where she is working with a team of Michigan State University colleagues to teach people there how to care for donkeys properly.
Publish Date: June 10, 2009
Peter Alegi, associate professor of history, has been appointed a Fulbright Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, in South Africa for the calendar year 2010. Alegi’s project is to explore “Sport and Leisure: Colonial and Post-colonial Transformations.”
Publish Date: June 05, 2009 | Multimedia:
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