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A Freshwater Legacy: 758 Odonata Specimens Find a Permanent Home at MSU
Published on December 19, 2025
MSU’s A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection has received 758 Odonata specimens from longtime collector John F. Douglass, now verified, curated and fully integrated into the university’s permanent scientific archive. -
Now available in Spanish: New pollination management resource for urban growers in the Great Lakes region
Published on December 11, 2025
A free pocket guide PDF is available in English and Spanish to help growers create and maintain native plant habitat to boost crop pollination by native bees. -
MSU transforms property to support pollinators
Published on December 8, 2025
Michigan State University is converting 30 acres of campus turf into pollinator-friendly gardens and meadows to support insects and reduce maintenance costs and labor. -
MSU research helping drive Michigan’s dry bean industry
Published on December 1, 2025
Michigan State University AgBioResearch scientists are working closely with dry bean growers and industry organizations to address challenges from the field to the finished product.
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2026 Smart Gardening Conference
March 28, 2026 9:00AM – 4:00PM WCCCD Ted Scott Campus 9555 Haggerty Rd, Belleville, MI. 48111
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We collectively acknowledge that Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognize, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of Michigan’s twelve federally-recognized Indian nations, for historic Indigenous communities in Michigan, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold Michigan State University more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
Link to the Land Acknowledgment information from AIIS: https://aiis.msu.edu/land/
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