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Improving Photosynthesis: The Final Frontier?
Published on July 1, 2020
MSU scientists are working to unlock the secrets of photosynthesis, which might spur an agricultural revolution and lead to innovative energy and industrial technologies. -
Investigating insect impacts on berry crops
Published on July 1, 2020
Rufus Isaacs, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Entomology, protects Michigan berry crops from invasive pests and examines crop pollination. -
Research and response on the front lines of emerging plant health threats
Published on July 1, 2020
Deb McCullough, a professor in the Departments of Entomology and Forestry, identifies insect threats to plant health and responds to plant health emergencies. -
Delivering practical education globally to areas of greatest need
Published on July 1, 2020
MSU researchers Julia Bello-Bravo and Barry Pittendrigh are delivering life-improving knowledge to low-literate learners in developing countries through animations via a program called Scientific Animations Without Borders. -
MSU Entomology honors its 2020 outstanding staff and students
Published on June 18, 2020
Learn about these recipients of the Department’s endowed fellowships, outstanding accomplishment awards, travel awards and more. -
Entomology awards John M. Clark its distinguished alumnus award
Published on June 8, 2020
A toxicologist at heart, Clark’s entomology studies gave him the skills to flourish with his pesticide resistance and mode of action studies. -
Monarch research takes flight in a social distancing world
Published on June 4, 2020
Responding to restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these field researchers reorganized and are amplifying their monarch conservation study through the power of citizen science. -
Scientific Animations Without Borders launches a Feed the Future-supported global education program addressing COVID-19 secondary impacts
Published on May 28, 2020
$1.6 million awarded to three MSU researchers to develop USAID COVID-19 global education and outreach materials. -
What’s all the excitement about cicadas?
Published on May 28, 2020
After spending many years underground, these insects have a coordinated emergence and a loud song that can’t be ignored. -
Entomology’s Bugged on remote working and flourishing
Published on May 22, 2020
Constraints for containing the novel coronavirus are keeping most of us off campus, but work, challenges and success continue as you’ll see in this issue of Bugged. -
MSU announces new Center for PFAS Research
Published on May 20, 2020
The Center for PFAS Research brings together faculty from across Michigan State University to study the health and environmental issues around PFAS chemicals. -
Regrow milkweed for monarchs: A citizen science study
Published on May 15, 2020
If you have a patch of milkweed and some time, you can help study how to best conserve monarch butterflies. -
Entomology graduate student award results in more butterfly and moth data for global scientists
Published on May 8, 2020
Supported with a Scriber Scholar Award, Erica Fischer has significantly expanded the butterfly and moth database available at MSU for international use. -
New podcast on forest invaders and the researchers who aim to stop them
Published on April 15, 2020
Produced by the USDA and supported by MSU Entomology, the first season of Forestcast features scientists and their work with the most damaging forest insects in the Northeast and Midwest. -
Allison Zahorec awarded prestigious pre-doctoral fellowship by the National Science Foundation
Published on April 13, 2020
Zahorec will research soil microarthropods in bioenergy cropland and their contributions to soil’s ability to store carbon and lessen climate warming.