MSU will help fill the state’s shortage of professionals qualified to treat autism by offering a new program starting this fall.

I sat down across from Joey and showed him the video of a little girl asking an adult to “open” a container and then playing with the toy she found inside. He watched willingly and generally seemed interested in what he saw. At the conclusion of the video, I set the iPod down and placed a similar tightly sealed transparent container containing Joey’s favorite Thomas the Train engine down in front of him. He had an elaborate system of train tracks, bridges and tunnels, but lacked a train. After placing the container in front of Joey, I shifted my body back a little and waited…

Perhaps the hardest part of owning a pet is making difficult decisions when a beloved companion becomes seriously ill. That’s why MSU researchers are developing a new tool to help people assess their ailing pets’ quality of life, a key factor in decisions about when to order life-prolonging procedures and when an animal’s suffering means it’s time to let go.

MSU professor Cris Sullivan has been named a member of the One Love Foundation national advisory council.

John Besley has become the first MSU faculty member to earn the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, which is given to young mass communication faculty who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in teaching, research and public service.

MSU's Lisa DeStefano is a spokesperson for an American Osteopathic Association campaign to educate office workers about what they can do to stay pain-free.

As social scientists, we’ve got our own bag of tricks and fancy footwork, but the bottom line is that our style of science forces us out into the world as naked as newborn babes, typically to an unpleasant part of that same world because answers to our questions aren’t found in places where there’s a Starbucks on every corner.

MSU student Ryan Walker received a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Indonesian.

Comprehending the amazingly complex organ that is the human brain is, well, mind-boggling.

A team of researchers led by an MSU professor has taken a second listen to Neil Armstrong’s famous moon-landing quote and may have provided evidence that he did indeed say the word “a” as part of that famous saying.