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MiCorps: the Michigan Clean Water Corps
- Project Contact: Jo Latimore
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Directed this statewide volunteer lake and stream monitoring program. Goals include collecting vital water quality data, educating the public on freshwater ecology and associated issues, and building a cadre of Michigan residents that are personally ...
Michigan's 2022 Drainage Design Workshop
- Project Contact: Ehsan Ghane
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
I organized and taught Michigan’s 2022 three-day Drainage Design Workshop. Stakeholders are farmers, drainage contractors, conservation professionals, state employees Goal was to teach drainage design to stakeholders
Continued appointment as Governor Whitmer’s appointed chairman for the Michigan Trails Advisory Council
- Project Contact: Robert Wilson
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
The Michigan Trails Advisory Council is an advisory body appointed by the governor to provide direction in guidance to developing trails in Michigan and supporting safety, diversity, economic development and public health and recreation through the d...
NOAA Restore Charrette
- Project Contact: Marie Ruemenapp
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Helped facilitate a charrette for a group of universities, NOAA, Army Corp of Engineers, and state and local natural resource managers brainstorming a natural resources and community development model for the states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Water quality impacts of mortality disposal directly on the soil surface
- Project Contact: Steven Safferman
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Applied research on animal mortality resulting from the pandemic, to support regulatory development and stakeholder compliance.
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management, Survey, Impacts
- Project Contact: Deborah McCullough
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Provided direction to state, multicounty and federal resource management personnel dealing with this invasive, tree-killing forest insect. Distributed research results. Created and distributed a pdf with an inexpensive option for hemlock wooly adelgi...
Spotted Lanternfly Outreach
- Project Contact: Deborah McCullough
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Provided information, including new research, to state and federal regulatory personnel, state, county and local resource managers, outstate extension educators, and arborists.
Heritage on the Move: The Impact of Migration and Movement on Traditional Culture
- Project Contact: Charles Dewhurst
- College/MAU: College of Arts and Letters
This international project is focused on documenting and analyzing the impact and response to the movement of people due to migration (forced or by choice) on the retention and practice of cultural traditions. It also is assessing the impact of publi...
Global Voices Webinar Series: World Food Day Roundtable
- Project Contact: Le Lu
- College/MAU: International Studies and Programs
Global Voices showcases how the work of young global innovators, MSU faculty, and industry leaders relate to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The series also serves as a coordinating platform for research and outreach activ...
Building Soil Health in the Peanut Basin of Senegal
- Project Contact: Timothy Harrigan
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Diversity, inclusion, and equity activities have focused on improving the lives of poor smallholder farmers in West Africa. In much of West Africa, women are typically responsible for planting and farming tasks such as weeding, harvesting, and post-h...
Flint Leverage Points Project
- Project Contact: Chelsea Wentworth
- College/MAU: College of Human Medicine
Conduct participatory research including scenario workshops, interviews, and planning. Co-create products based on research results for community audiences, attend community events, create tools for community use.
2022 Tile Drainage Field Day
- Project Contact: Ehsan Ghane
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Provided an educational field day about the link between soil health and drainage. Organized and taught at the field day, which included a live demonstration of a tile plow for a saturated buffer installation. Attended by 62 participants, including i...
PFAS Exposure and Health
- Project Contact: Courtney Carignan
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Develop and share actionable information and resources for PFAS-impacted communities.
Studies of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI)
- Project Contact: Hassan
- College/MAU: College of Arts and Letters
Twenty undergraduates from Europe were in residence at MSU for one month in summer 2022. The institute focused on civic engagement. The students participated in numerous outreach activities, including weekly community service, public presentations, a...
Great Lakes Conference: Connecting Science and Management
- Project Contact: Lois Wolfson
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
This annual one-day conference highlights current and emerging issues in the Great Lakes and surrounding basin. Attendees, composed of agency personnel, educators, NGO representatives, students, and interested individuals, have the opportunity for an...
Mandela Washington Fellowship
- Project Contact: Hassan
- College/MAU: College of Arts and Letters
Direct the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a six-week residency program in East Lansing for 25 young African leaders. The Fellows are required to do 15 hours of community service. They are placed as volunteers at local community organizations in Lansi...
Woodshed Maps for Great Lakes States
- Project Contact: Raju Pokharel
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Developing an interactive online tool to explore woodshed (wood basket) maps for sawlogs (hardwood and softwood), pulp and pulpwood, and biomass for industry, landowners, and forestry professionals. The tool would help understand the market extent an...
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three Acts
- Project Contact: Rachel Winter
- College/MAU: University Arts and Collections
Flint Is Family in Three Acts is a multipart exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan—Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan—as t...
Planning Practicum
- Project Contact: Zenia Kotval
- College/MAU: College of Social Science
Planning Practicum is a Capstone course in Urban and Regional Planning. Students work in teams on community-based planning projects with a community, public sector client. The course takes on six projects a year.
Improving Fish Health in the North Central Region
- Project Contact: Myron Kebus
- College/MAU: College of Veterinary Medicine
Provided direct consultations to fish farmers who are losing fish in the North Central Region of the U.S. in an effort to improve the health of their fish through alternative disease prevention methods. Have provided information on improving fish hea...
Flint Communications Group
- Project Contact: Robert Brown
- College/MAU: Associate Provost for University Outreach and Engagement
Formed during the water crisis, this multisector network continues to be tasked with creating trusted recovery communication to Flint residents, especially those who are hard to reach. The group meets biweekly, receiving updates from the City of Flin...
Algal Bloom Action Team
- Project Contact: Lois Wolfson
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Helped develop a multistate outreach program focusing on harmful algal blooms (HABs). Project goals were to assess current HABs outreach and education efforts, identify needs for HABs information, develop uniform recommendations for the North Central...
Pollinator Best Management Practices for Apples
- Project Contact: Julianna Wilson
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Worked with a team of researchers and stakeholders to write a set of best management practices for minimizing harm to pollinators in apple orchards. This work was funded as a joint collaboration between USApple and the Honey Bee Health Coalition.
North Central IPM Center Working Groups
- Project Contact: Lynnae Jess
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
The North Central Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Center funds working groups each year. These working groups cover a broad array of topics ‒ from crop-related groups to urban ag IPM, school IPM, tick IPM, pollinator and monarch conservation, etc....
CANR STEM-FEE Academy
- Project Contact: Eunice Foster
- College/MAU: College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
The goal of the academy is to introduce students in grades 7-12 to careers in seven biological STEM disciplines in agriculture and natural resources and to engage students in hands-on exercises related to these disciplines. The disciplines are animal...