Jim Peck talks with the men who helped a 13-year-old Iraqi boy receive life-changing medical care in Lansing. Watch >>
MSUToday Show #21 featuring the story of Hope, green commencement at MSU, video games to educate children on the danger of landmines, the School of Packaging's egg drop contest and information on the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities.
MSUToday Show #20 featuring a red carpet dress debut, jazz education in Detroit, MSU research on E. coli and contamination and lettuce and a campus tour with veteran students.
MSUToday Show #19 featuring MSU research on potatoes, lessons in urban education, clubs and organizations on campus and Sones de Mexico at MSU's College of Music.
MSUToday Show #18 featuring a 13-year-old Iraqi boy receiving life-changing medical care from an MSU doctor at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, teams of MSU researchers working together to figure out new ways to power the world, fitting in to Michigan State and a fly-through video of the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum.
MSUToday InStudio: Climate Change MSU Today host Jim Peck talks with MSU professor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient David Skole about climate change, the research he’s doing in Thailand and Laos and MSU’s role in being leaders in sustainability.
MSUToday InStudio: BEACON Michigan State University researchers Richard Lenski, Kay Holekamp and Erik Goodman talk with MSU Today host Jim Peck about BEACON, an NSF Science and Technology Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, just awarded to MSU.
MSUToday InStudio: Carl Taylor MSUToday host Jim Peck talks with sociology professor Carl Taylor about his research and work with youth culture, gangs and violence and his quest to restore hope and peace in Detroit.
MSUToday Show #17 featuring a 12-year-old Iraqi boy receiving life-changing medical care from an MSU doctor at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, the MSU Dairy Store, MSU fighting poverty and climate change in Thailand, the dos and don'ts of new media, and a tour of Williams Hall.
MSUToday presents: Izzo Goes to Broadway You've seen him win, and you've seen him lose. Now see him dance! Tom Izzo dances Broadway-style for charity.
MSUToday InStudio: Music MSUToday host Jim Peck talks music with College of Music dean Jim Forger, Spartan Marching Band director John Madden and Jazz Studies Program director Rodney Whitaker.
MSUToday Show #16 featuring the MSU Film Committee that combines theory, history, and criticism to collaborate with multiple departments across campus and produce quality, creative films, an MSU Extension partnership in Southeast Michigan is turning wood-based horse bedding into electricity that powers Detroit homes, MSU ‘dimmming down’ during the lunch hour to ‘Be Spartan Green,’ MSU Dairy Store chocolate cheese, and a tour of the Plant and Soil Sciences building on campus.
MSUToday Show #15 featuring MSU scientists and students that are luring destructive sea lampreys out of the water by releasing a synthetic chemical and foiling the mating process of the invasive species, the new MSU Recycling Center and Surplus Store on campus that's green in more ways than one, models sashaying down the runway wearing sophisticated, show-stopping creations of MSU apparel and textile design students, the MSU School of Hospitality Business’s signature event—Les Gourmets, and a tour of MSU's Music Building, built in 1940 as a federal Public Works Administration project to help connect people to the arts.
MSUToday Show #14 featuring MSU sociology professor Carl Taylor’s research and work with youths is a quest to restore hope and peace in Detroit, dancing and rapping physicists that rare isotope research and MSU’s newest venture—the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB—easier for us to understand, the Bee Project at MSU’s Student Organic Farm, MSU Bikes—a great campus resource for students who need bike repairs and are seeking a green way to get to class, and a tour of Wharton Center for Performing Arts, which recently completed an $18.5 million expansion and renovation, yielding improved amenities for performers and new space for community arts education.
MSUToday Show #13 featuring College of Engineering students building a tandem bicycle, MSU Children's Choir bidding ado to director Mary Alice Stollak, a tour of the historic Cowles House and the perfect recipe to rival mom's pie – with a little help from MSU.
MSUToday presents: A Season of the Band Spend a season with the Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band. Go behind the scenes and on the field with 300 marching musicians. We’ll take you from the first stressful days through the ups and downs of the schedule to the glorious postseason bowl appearance. You’ll see why the band’s legendary director, John T. Madden, calls the experience the “best life-skills class on campus” for these hardworking students. Buy your DVD today!
MSUToday presents: Rumba Sinfónica Catch the rhythm of Rumba Sinfónica, a symphonic work performed recently by Cuban band Tiempo Libre and the MSU Symphony at the Wharton Center.
Show #12 featuring the final football game of the year on a national stage and the Spartan Marching Band; a one-of-a-kind interactive exhibit in South Africa that is inspiring and bringing together young people around the world; and Rumba Sinfónica, a symphonic work composed at MSU and performed by the MSU Symphony and hot Cuban band Tiempo Libre at the Wharton Center.
MSUToday presents: Bringing the world to Tanzania See how an MSU-designed computer system powered by the sun is empowering children in Tanzania.
Show #11 featuring the buzz of how honeybees are disappearing and food supplies are diminishing and what MSU entomologists are doing to help solve these problems; how MSU is continuing to go green by working on new plant-based fuels to keep the country moving; the MSU Spartan Marching Band taking the field at the last regular season football game; and an autonomous robot cleaning a window at the touch of a button — without the help of Windex and some paper towels.
Show #10 featuring the MSU Drumline; an MSU-designed computer system that is powered by the sun and is empowering children in Tanzania; and how MSU is educating the next generation of nuclear scientists while developing a next-generation nuclear structure and astrophysics facility.
Show #9 featuring the MSU Spartan Marching Band on the field at the “Big House” in Ann Arbor; a system developed by MSU researchers to help police match tattoos to suspects and victims; the always swingin’ jazz studies program at MSU, and the arches and bridges that adorn MSU’s campus.
Show #8 featuring the MSU Alumni Band on a soggy Saturday in East Lansing; the MSU Baja Team that combines engineering and “mud whomping;” and the Samaritan scrolls, which are housed in the MSU Libraries Special Collections.
MSUToday presents: A study in jazz We’ll take to you a place where it’s always swingin’: the jazz studies program at MSU. It’s one of the best places in the country if you want to learn to play the blues, swing, or just jam with some cool cats! Grab a seat and get ready for some hot music in a chilly place.
Show #7 featuring how the Spartan Marching Band prepares for game day; renowned jazz musician Wynton Marsalis spreading the gospel of music; how MSU’s arborists tend the trees of MSU’s campus; and MSU’s “The Show,” the nation’s longest-running college sitcom.
Show #6 featuring the legendary Spartan Marching Band; how architecture bridges the centuries and generations at MSU; a look back at John A. Hannah; and hitting the race track with the MSU Formula Racing team.
Show #5 featuring a profile of the student-run “Focal Point” news program; the MSU 4-H Children’s Garden; an innovative way to learn Chinese; and MSU’s research into “green roof” technology.
Show #4 featuring rare isotope research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU; the award winning campus student run radio station, WDBM; a look inside MSU’s Special Collections housed in MSU’s MainLibrary; and one student’s immersion into MSU’s study abroad program.
Show #3 featuring the MSU College of Law’s Trial Practice Program; College of Communication Arts and Sciences serious game design specialization; the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities; and Rwanda coffee.
Show #2 featuring activist-scholar Carl Taylor; Saints’ Rest archaelogical dig; Grandparents’ University, and Panda research.
Show #1 featuring bioeconomy initiatives; turfgrass program; Beaumont Tower; and the College Assistance Migrant Program.
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