MSU Faculty in the News Archive 2004
ESPP featured in the Fall 2004 issue of the Graduate Post, the newsletter of MSU's Graduate School
12/25/2004
Introduction [pdf] | Full Story [pdf]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address Bush administration's anti-environmental stance in speech at MSU
11/10/2004
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will discuss "Our Environmental Destiny" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, at the Wharton Center at Michigan State University. Kennedy is speaking in conjunction with the publication of his book, "Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy."
MSU study shows how common soil minerals might mop up pesticides
11/08/2004
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New research at MSU suggests that dousing soils with solutions that are rich in everyday minerals and salts might help soils more effectively soak up pesticides and other organic contaminants.
MSU Faculty Members Receive Fulbright Awards
10/11/2004
Six faculty members and administrators from Michigan State University were awarded Fulbright Scholar awards during the 2004-2005 academic year.
Ethics and Agri-food Nanotechnology Grant Awarded
09/29/2004
Nine MSU faculty members working through the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards have been awarded a National Science Foundation Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Teams grant to study the social and ethical implications of this important new technology for agriculture and the food system.
MSU part of new center to study Great Lakes and health
09/20/2004
Michigan State University will be an integral part of a newly formed center that will study the Great Lakes, looking at how humans impact the lakes and how, in turn, the lakes affect human health.
Dietz receives award
08/19/2004
Tom Dietz, director of the Environmental Science & Policy Program, received the Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Environment and Technology Section.
Two students receive ESPP fellowships
08/09/2004
The Environmental Science & Policy Program (ESPP), with the financial support of The Graduate School, awarded two dissertation completion fellowships for the 2004-2005 academic year.
MSU toxicology program receives training grant
07/29/2004
The MSU Center for Integrative Toxicology (MSU CIT) has received its fourth consecutive training grant worth more than $1.6 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
MSU Land Policy Program Announces 44 Grant Awards
07/12/2004
The Michigan State University (MSU) Land Policy Program announced making 44 grant awards totaling $680,000 to researchers and outreach faculty members at MSU, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan for projects that protect land resources, encourage smart growth, and revitalize urban centers.
Kaminski named new toxicology center director
07/01/2004
Norbert Kaminski, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology, is the new director of the Center for Integrative Toxicology (CIT), a unit — formerly know as the Institute for Environmental Toxicology — that is taking on a new, expanded mission.
Digital evolution reveals the many ways to get to diversity
07/01/2004
In finding an answer to "perhaps the greatest unsolved ecological riddle," evolutionists propose that diversity is a testament to there being more than one way to make a living.
Hunting for Hydrilla
06/15/2004
If the aquatic plant Hydrilla verticillata comes to Michigan, it could overwhelm waterways here as it has in other states after only a few growing seasons.
Survey shows four years at MSU can strengthen student's knowledge of environment
04/01/2004
The survey was sponsored by the University Committee for a Sustainable Campus to learn what influences their MSU experience had on their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to the environment.
ESPP faculty elect five members to Program Advisory Group
06/04/2004
Faculty of the Environmental Science & Policy Program (ESPP) elected five members to its Program Advisory Group (PAG), for two-year terms, effective Fall Semester 2004.
MSU building gets topped with a field of dreams
05/19/2004
Michigan State University is going green - installing a vegetative green roof on a portion of the Plant and Soil Sciences building. They'll be hauling 200-pound rolls of sedum to lay them on specially developed materials that will grow into a living flowering carpet.
MSU project to promote ‘smart growth’
04/27/2004
Michigan State University's Travel, Tourism and Recreation Resource Center is teaming with Planning and Zoning Center Inc. of Lansing to investigate how land development professionals can increase the implementation of what's known as "smart growth" principles in Michigan.
MDEQ and Michigan State University form Environmental Research Partnership
04/22/2004
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and Michigan State University (MSU) are forming an environmental research partnership to address Michigan's critical environmental issues. The two organizations will sign an agreement today forming the Partnership for Environmental Excellence and Research (PEER).
MSU teams with Lansing schools on water project
04/19/2004
Students from Michigan State University and the Lansing School District are teeming up in an effort to increase awareness of mid-Michigan's water resources.
Lakes with zebra mussels have higher levels of toxins, MSU research finds
03/10/2004
Inland lakes in Michigan that have been invaded by zebra mussels, an exotic species that has plagued bodies of water in several states since the 1980s, have higher levels of algae that produce a toxin that can be harmful to humans and animals, according to a Michigan State University researcher.
ESPP's Mercuro, Rose appointed to Michigan Environmental Science Board
02/27/2004
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm appointed four individuals to the Michigan Environmental Science Board. The board is an independent state agency first established in 1992 to provide scientific and technical advice to the Governor on matters affecting the protection and management of environmental and natural resources.
Risk and food are on the same plate: World food safety experts offer new methods to assess risk
02/14/2004
Ewen C.D. Todd, director of the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center at MSU, says new methods are in the pipeline to improve the safety of the world's food supply, and the need is imminent.
Seeing the forest for the trees: The future of environmental policy lies in interaction
02/14/2004
The future of environmental policy lies in embracing ambiguity - in the understanding that the days of dreaming of isolated fixes to problems are over.
Major U.S. environmental policy bears scrutiny in midlife
02/13/2004
A major piece of U.S. environmental legislation - the National Environmental Policy Act - is bracing for its 35th birthday.
President features ESPP in State of the University Address
02/10/2004
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Michigan State University President Peter McPherson's annual State of the University Address and Awards Convocation, from the Pasant Theatre at the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts.
ESPP faculty member Richard Merritt receives 2004 Distinguished Faculty Award
02/10/2004
Presented at Michigan State University's State of the University Address and Awards Convocation.
Scientists go back to school to understand ecosystems
01/16/2004
A groundbreaking discovery that shows that fisheries ecosystems and educational systems have a lot in common stands to give natural resource managers tools to keep environments healthy.
Researchers tie worldwide biodiversity threats to growth in households
01/12/2003
In the "FY 2003 Performance Highlights," the National Science Foundation
underscored the programmatic achievements regarding the study that better
understands the challenges to the pandas' habitat. The study has been
conducted by Jianguo (Jack) Liu (ESPP faculty member in the Department of
Fisheries and Wildlife) and his interdisciplinary research team.
National Science Foundation FY 2003 Performance Highlights
01/01/2004
In its "Science Highlights from 2003," the National Science
Foundation recognized a cover-story paper published in Nature (January 30,
2003) by Jianguo (Jack) Liu (ESPP faculty member in the Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife) and his co-authors at Stanford University (Gretchen Daily,
Paul Ehrlich, and Gary Luck). The paper is entitled "Effects of household
dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity." Other highlights
include the 2003 Nobel Prize Winners who received grants from NSF.
