MSU News

As Michigan State University’s Recruiting Trends report shows, college students are experiencing a mixed bag of outcomes when it comes to finding a job.

The job market for new college graduates, hampered by a lackluster economy and political uncertainty, will increase at a sluggish 3 percent this academic year, predicts MSU's annual Recruiting Trends report.

Nearly 6,000 people visited the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU during the Nov. 9-11 dedication weekend. Grand opening festivities included museum tours, a public talk with Eli Broad and the museum’s Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, live concerts, discussions with Broad museum staff, art-making activities and more.

MSU and regional partners have been recognized for a project to strengthen Michigan’s health care workforce.

Why do so many beginning teachers quit the profession or change schools? Surprising new research from MSU finds it’s not a heavy workload or lack of resources that has the most significant effect, but instead the relationship between teachers and their principal.

A study led by a Michigan State University researcher offers the strongest evidence yet that reflexology – a type of specialized foot massage practiced since the age of pharaohs – can help cancer patients manage their symptoms and perform daily tasks.

Michigan State University is one of only four higher education institutions in the nation to rank in the top 10 for study abroad participation and international student enrollment, according to the Institute of International Education’s annual Open Doors Report released Nov. 12.

China’s endangered wild pandas may need new dinner reservations – and quickly – based on models that indicate climate change may kill off swaths of bamboo that pandas need to survive.

A pair of MSU professors will visit Lumen Christi High School in nearby Jackson Nov. 12 to teach students some basic physiology and stoke their interest in science and technology.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU, a new Zaha Hadid-designed contemporary art museum, will open Nov. 10 following a 10 a.m. public dedication ceremony.

MSU and Sparrow have launched a new pediatric resource and referral service that will match the region’s youngest patients with the specialty care they need, cutting down on wait times and making it easier for families to navigate the health care system.

Joel Ferguson and Brian Mosallam have been elected to the MSU Board of Trustees.

MSU will use a grant from U.S. Agency for International Development to improve agricultural production and reduce poverty in areas of the world suffering from rapid urbanization, population growth and skills gaps.

A trio of MSU professors traveled to Mexico last month to provide veterinary care to working equids – horses, mules, donkeys and burros – and educate the people who depend on the animals for their livelihood.

Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is expected to attract somewhere between 125,000 to 150,000 annual visitors and pump $5.75 million per year in new spending into the regional economy, an economic study predicts.

Historically, the media have been particularly harsh to sharks, and it’s affecting their survival. The results of a Michigan State University study, appearing in the current issue of the journal Conservation Biology, reviewed worldwide media coverage of sharks – and the majority isn’t good.

A new study analyzing the previous math standards of each state provides strong support for adoption of common standards, which U.S. students desperately need to keep pace with their counterparts around the globe, an MSU scholar argues.

The Michigan State University College of Nursing today hosts the dedication ceremony for the new Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research, a three-story, 50,000-square-foot center for students, researchers, practitioners and educators to come together to shape the future of health care.

A national health organization on Thursday recognized MSU's Multiple Sclerosis Clinic as an outstanding resource for patients with the disease.

Hoping to curb Puerto Rico’s soaring murder rate, the Justice Department has tapped a renowned team of homicide investigators led by an MSU criminologist to help the island’s police force.