On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Nurten Ural won the Charles A. Gliozzo International Award for Public Diplomacy.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Michael Harrison won the Glen L. Taggart Award for Community Contribution to International Understanding.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Richard Bellon won an Award for Outstanding Service to MSU Study Abroad.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Kerim Ertan won the Joon S. Moon Distinguished International Alumni Award at MSU.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where David Horner won the Homer Higbee International Education Award at MSU.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Alaa Tayeb won the Homer Higbee International Education Award at MSU.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Kyle Martin won the Homer Higbee International Education Award at MSU.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Stefan Fletcher won the Homer Higbee International Education Award at MSU.

On Wednesday, March 21 the 2012 International Awards Ceremony was held where Todd Drummond won the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Global Studies at MSU.

They don’t kill, so they don’t make many headlines. But river blindness and elephantiasis cause untold suffering for tens of millions of people worldwide, leaving many unable to provide for themselves and their families, and locking them into a cycle of poverty.

The diseases may soon be history, though, thanks in large part to Charles Mackenzie, a professor of veterinary pathology at Michigan State University.
 

In an effort to boost medical research and enhance global health care training, Michigan State University is creating new strategic partnerships with colleges and teaching hospitals in South Africa and the Dominican Republic.

The initiative, led by Reza Nassiri, professor and acting director of MSU’s Institute of International Health, will include faculty and student exchanges and may eventually expand collaborations in clinical research projects.
 

Along with faculty from Makerere University in Uganda and Tamil Nadu Animal and Veterinary Sciences University in India, MSU faculty are bringing together leading researchers, educators and outreach specialists in veterinary medicine to address shared concerns with human, livestock and wildlife interfacing.

A long-term collaboration between a non-profit organization in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and the colleges of communication arts and sciences and osteopathic medicine has been expanded to include the city government of Solidaridad. Together the partners will address ways to improve access to surgical care for low-income families in the region.

John Staatz leads a set of agricultural research projects in West Africa, with funding totaling $7.5 million, aimed at improving the performance of West Africa’s food system. Researchers, farmers, traders, government officials and non-governmental organizations are all part of a collaborative effort to improve agricultural productivity and access to food in Mali and other countries in West Africa. MSU’s Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics has received approx

For the first time in Burundi’s 80-year history of coffee production, the once war-torn, African country is producing specialty coffee to be sold direct to the markets, thanks to training and research provided by Michigan State University.

Providing opportunities for interdisciplinary teams of students to engage in community-based research and development projects in agricultural and engineering, Irving Widders, professor of horticulture, and Brian Thompson, professor of mechanical engineering, have started a study abroad program to examine and meet the needs of underserved communities in the Andean highlands. Successful projects include: fruit crop promotion, ecotourism education, marketing of commodities and water-heating

With support from the Agricultural Product Export Development Authority, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and the National Institute of Marketing Boards, the Indian Horticulture Development Alliance is promoting growth in the Indian mango market.

When the Swedish government announced that the country would stop using oil by 2020, it was clear that its leaders were concerned about the environment.

But there was another obvious motivation behind the decision: Sweden has no domestic oil industry, and importing petroleum had become costly.

“And when you don’t have any oil, you get good at not using it,” says Kris Berglund, a University Distinguished Professor of forestry and chemical engineering.

Leading a team of forestry and engineering researchers from MSU, in collaboration with researchers from Colorado State University, the World Agroforestry Center in Kenya and the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia (among others), Skole hopes to create a model that development programs worldwide could adopt to assess their carbon footprint.