Michigan State University once again this year placed in the top half of the top-40 “Best Places to Work 2009: Academia” rankings for United States institutions published by The Scientist magazine.
Publish Date: Nov. 19, 2009
Officials from the National Institutes of Health will brief Michigan’s life sciences community – from academic researchers to entrepreneurs and industry scientists – on new opportunities.
Publish Date: Nov. 03, 2009
Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist at Michigan State University. They’re developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.
Publish Date: Nov. 02, 2009 | Multimedia: 

A fixable error in the way carbon is counted in current U.S. climate legislation and in the Kyoto Protocol could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using biofuels, says a premier group of national environmental and land-use scientists.
Publish Date: Oct. 22, 2009 | Multimedia: 
A collaboration of chemists, mathematicians and engineers at Michigan State University is driving to improve solar panel technology, backed by a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Publish Date: Oct. 14, 2009 | Multimedia: 

Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged from hiding on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University scientist.
Publish Date: Oct. 13, 2009 | Multimedia: 

A Michigan State University scholar will use a $1 million federal grant to create a program designed to better prepare high-schoolers for technical careers by spurring interest in science, technology, engineering and math courses.
Publish Date: Oct. 06, 2009 | Multimedia: 
Because all Michigan State University digital assets are at risk of becoming inaccessible due to changing technology, MSU will develop a plan and guidelines to ensure trustworthy preservation, management and stewardship of its digital assets and intellectual property.
Publish Date: Sept. 30, 2009
Michigan State University's Department of Entomology will use a federal stimulus grant to upgrade its arthropod research collection, which is good news for students, scientists and others who depend on the 1.5 million-specimen collection for their work.
Publish Date: Sept. 30, 2009 | Multimedia: 

Technology that could enhance plants’ seed oil content for food and animal feed applications has been licensed to BASF Plant Science under an exclusive commercial agreement with Michigan State University.
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