Environment

In Michigan and beyond, there is no shortage of environmental health challenges that impact residents, like PFAS, lead exposure, water and air quality, and industrial pollution. Environmental exposures compromise the health, development and quality of life of many Michiganders, and URC institutions work together with statewide partners to learn how to mitigate them.

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DOE creates MSU Industrial Assessment Center

08/04/2021

MSU will be home to a new Industrial Assessment Center, or IAC, where faculty, staff and students will work with Michigan companies to save money, improve energy efficiency and shrink carbon…

A sewage surveillance effort to track COVID-19

03/26/2020

Could a community’s wastewater give an early warning of the spread of COVID-19? With a rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation, a research team from the University of Michigan and…

Neighborhood air pollution linked to adverse health…

02/17/2020

Elderly asthma patients living near busy highways and heavy industry in Southeast Michigan believed that air pollution was making their breathing more difficult. A recent study by Michigan State…

Extracting rare earths from coal byproduct

01/08/2020

While not particularly “rare” in terms of prevalence, rare earth elements are not found in large concentrations and are difficult to separate and purify. However, one source of REEs that has gained…

NSF Grant Supports Study of Low-Oxygen Zones

12/30/2019

Source: MSU

What impacts can we expect from the expansion of low-oxygen zones in today’s ocean? An international team of scientists that includes Michigan State University paleo-oceanographer Dalton Hardisty has…

MSU scientists testing a faster way to detect chronic…

10/18/2019

Michigan State University and Michigan Department of Natural Resources scientists are testing a faster, more accurate way to screen and diagnose chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in deer. The…

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