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MSU, Lincoln University, and Malawi partnership awarded USAID grant to build capacities in ecosystem Published: Friday, 10 Sep 2010The collaboration between Michigan State University, the University of Malawi and Lincoln University, was one of 11 partnerships of American and African university awarded a grant by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Higher Education for Development (HED) to help strengthen capacity at African universities. The African-led partnership will help expand the University of Malawi’s role in addressing environmental and development challenges within their continent. -
Fulbright Awards announced for 2010-2011 academic year Published: Sunday, 23 May 2010The Fulbright Awards for 2010-2011have been awarded, with nine scholarship recipients and three alternates going to Michigan State University.
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MSU and Burundi: Working together to build a coffee sector Published: Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009Specialty coffee buyers, a better quality product and an increase in prices paid to growers are the keys to building a strong coffee sector in Burundi, according to Michigan State University faculty and staff who are helping the once war-torn country develop its market. -
MSU Campus Commemorates World AIDS Day Published: Thursday, 07 Dec 2006MSU commemorated World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with a symposium focusing on the millions of children in Sub-Saharan Africa who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The program, No Place to Hide World AIDS Day Symposium, featured presentations of scholastic work and student field projects in addition to a showing of the video, No Place to Hide.
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Beans That Grow Hope -- PEARL Rwandan Coffee Project Published: Tuesday, 24 Oct 2006The 'land of a thousand hills' is in the midst of an uphill climb back to normalcy. Known for the genocide that a decade ago claimed 800,000 lives in 100 days as Hutus massacred Tutsis, Rwandans may find that one road to healing leads through their country's thousands of coffee fields, where Hutus and Tutsis now grow their crop - together. Through a program called PEARL, Partnership to Enhance Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkage, farmers are learning how to produce a top-quality coffee th
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Alumni Couple Active in Congo Wildlife Conservation Published: Monday, 09 May 2005Two MSU alumni, Terese and John Hart, are working to foster conservation in the midst of armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Terese is currently the director of the Wildlife Conservation Societys (WCS) operations in the DRC, and her husband John heads up a major wildlife inventory and monitoring initiative in that country involving the Okapi Wildlife Reserve and several national parks.
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