Several faculty and staff at MSU have been nominated for Emmy awards by the Michigan Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Additionally, many students were nominated for student production awards.

The U.S. Army has put an MSU physician in charge of its efforts to keep soldiers and civilians healthy.

Jim Kelly has been breeding new varieties of beans for more than 30 years. During a trip to Rwanda 10 years ago with MSU graduate student Gerardine Mukeshimana—a native of the country—he saw a way he could help farmers there.

One of the keys to better nutrition and health for the people of Rwanda fits in the palm of a hand: legumes. But despite their nutritional punch, legumes—including common beans, cowpeas, and lima beans—are highly susceptible to drought and disease. That’s what brought MSU scientists to Rwanda, which has the world’s highest bean consumption per capita, to work on breeding heartier varieties that can sustain the people and economy of the country.

The announcement by actress Angelina Jolie that she had a double mastectomy has put a spotlight on the genetics behind breast cancer, and could even have implications for a pending Supreme Court case. MSU experts are available to sort out the science behind Jolie’s decision, what it has to do with coming high court ruling and what women need to know about their genes and breast cancer.

In the community of Bedani, India, villagers often would travel a mile or more to the nearest river for water. Their plight inspired Priyanka Pandey, a medical student in MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, to create a plan to install five water pumps throughout the village so every family home is within 20 feet of a source for clean, fresh water.

“She was fine yesterday,” the mother repeats in a state of shock and disbelief.

The journey of six women from the state of Michigan who decided to swim the English Channel in effort to raise money and awareness for ALS research (Lou Gehrig's Disease). The team, comprised of Spartans, Wolverines, and others, swam for Bob Schoeni, a professor at U of M, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2008.

William Schmidt is one of four researchers named Thomas J. Alexander Fellows by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Schmidt is the only scholar from the United States selected for the fellowship, a new program focused on improving education quality and equity.

Men who experience high levels of sexual harassment are much more likely than women to induce vomiting and take laxatives and diuretics in an attempt to control their weight, according to a surprising finding by MSU researchers.