The Global Food Security Report is the flagship report of the Global Food and Agriculture Program of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and aims to build long-term global commitment to agricultural development, food and nutrition security as a means to alleviate global poverty, and has even served as framework for presidential initiatives. This year, the report focuses on the intersection of youth livelihoods and agricultural development — a topic which I have dedicated myself to during my academic career.

MSU College of Human Medicine will host the Maximizing Function and Ability in Cerebral Palsy conference on April 19. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in MSU’s Radiology Building. It will feature presentations by clinicians, scientists and community members from across the state and beyond.

Two new endowed positions have been created at MSU to focus on the holistic well-being of students through spirituality and psychological development.

To showcase the latest in student-led research, two MSU scholars presented their academic endeavors at the Board of Trustees meeting on April 13.

MSU’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology in the College of Human Medicine has grown in prestige in the number of top researchers it has attracted, as well as garnering more federal grant funding.

MSU is a national leader among universities in the number of endowed faculty positions held by women. Of the 131 endowed positions currently occupied across campus, 24.4 percent are held by women. Nine of those are in the College of Natural Science-four donor-funded positions and five MSU Foundation Professors.

A new MSU study is the first to find that a particular type of lipid, or fat, thought to only exist in the skin, now lives in your eye and might play a major role in deterring diabetic retinopathy.

Ranging from agriculture and science to performing arts to business and entrepreneurship, 928 MSU undergraduate students, from 14 colleges, will present their research at the annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 13 at the MSU Union.

Imagine a 65-year-old woman who sees her physician frequently for a variety of aches and pains. She might complain of back pain on one visit, headaches another time, and feeling weak on the next. Each time, her physician does a physical exam and runs the appropriate tests, without finding anything to account for her symptoms. Each time, she leaves the office feeling frustrated that “nothing can be done” for what ails her.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will kick off his third “Back to Our Roots” RV tour on April 3 at MSU.