Michigan State University’s fast-growing study abroad, student volunteer and residential college programs are considered national leaders in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Publish Date: Aug. 21, 2008
Just as Michigan State University’s turfgrass scientists are busy building the portable athletic field for the Beijing Olympics, the university has launched a Web site highlighting this and other high-profile projects relating to China.
Publish Date: July 23, 2008
The university’s world-famous turf team has been contracted to help China build a portable athletic turf in the new Beijing National Stadium, aka the Bird’s Nest. The turf will support the Olympics’ main track and field competitions and the gold medal soccer match, as well as future events.
Publish Date: July 16, 2008 | Multimedia: 
Recent research by Michigan State University doctoral student Jennifer Smith has shed new light on the way spotted hyenas live together and – more importantly – hunt for their food alone.
Publish Date: July 16, 2008 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University will help celebrate the 90th birthday of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Saturday, July 19, with a specially designed exhibit opening at the Nelson Mandela National Museum in Mthatha, South Africa. Mandela is scheduled to attend the event.
Publish Date: July 14, 2008 | Multimedia:
Two of the world’s largest environmental programs in China are generally successful, although key reforms could transform them into a model for the rest of the world, according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Publish Date: July 07, 2008 | Multimedia:
As China's global influence continues to grow, a Michigan State University scholar has created the first online video game for teaching Chinese culture and language.
Publish Date: June 24, 2008 | Multimedia:
It's the online game with an odd name—"Zon/New Chengo"—and an ambitious mission: Provide folks around the world with a fun yet educational way to learn about China.
Publish Date: June 24, 2008 | Multimedia:
When General Patton's Third United States Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945, American soldiers and visitors were astonished to find 904 children and youth—all boys in a men's camp—among the 21,000 surviving prisoners.
Publish Date: June 23, 2008 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University professor Kenneth Waltzer, director of Jewish Studies, is part of a group of 15 other scholars from North America, Europe and Israel who have traveled to Bad Arolsen, Germany, to be the first to examine and study records and items from the Holocaust at the newly opened Red Cross International Tracing Service Archives.
Publish Date: June 23, 2008 | Multimedia:
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