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The importance of agriculture is impossible to overstate, providing the food, fiber and fuel that supports a growing world population. Farmers, scientists and corporations are investigating ways to make this indispensable industry more sustainable.
March 17, 2023
New MSU research helps better quantify soil carbon stock changes
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regenerative agriculture, soil carbon storage
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October 20, 2021
Measuring and predicting soil carbon to offset climate change
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USDA Farm Service Agency, faculty, research, soil carbon storage
MSU ecosystems scientist Bruno Basso has received a $3.4 million grant from the USDA’s Farm Service Agency to help determine how much carbon is in unproductive agricultural lands now and how much carbon the soil can hold. The answers found by Basso and his team will contribute to a carbon storage initiative known as the Conservation Reserve Program, which allows unproductive land to return to native vegetation and hopefully to increase the amount of carbon to be stored in the soil while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agrochemical applications to mitigate climate change.
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Different types of T cells (red, green, pink, orange) in the tumor microenvironment. Most T cells that surround the tumor are unable to infiltrate into the tumor (cyan & blue). September 18, 2023Dohun Pyeon receives MSU Research Foundation grant for novel cancer research
New research at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University will harness the power of machine learning to accelerate nuclear science.September 15, 2023Accelerating nuclear science with machine learning
Tim Dorweiler, a Ph.D. candidate in the molecular, cellular and integrated physiology program at MSU, look at crystals in various retinal tissues. September 7, 2023MSU researchers discover link between cholesterol and diabetic retinopathy
MSU chemist James McCusker believes that new approaches to the science of solar energy conversion need to include a focus on abundant, scalable materials that can capture and convert light into useable chemical potential. Toward this end, he and his team of students combine synthesis with ultrafast spectroscopy in order to develop a fundamental understanding of the interplay between the chemical structure and/or composition of a molecule and the mechanism by which that molecule redistributes energy it absorbs in the form of light. September 7, 2023James McCusker receives prestigious Josef Michl American Chemical Society Award in Photochemistry

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