Recent Events

NEW AWARDS

• December 2007. National Areonautics and Space Administration, MAIRS (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study) : Jiaguo Qi named project scientist for this collaboration with the Land-Cover Land-Use Change (LCLUC) program.

• 10/1/2007. National Institutes of Health: "Dynamic Ecological Simulation Model of Tsetse Transmitted Trypanosomosis in Kenya", Joseph Messina, Primary Investigator.

• 8/15/2007. National Science Foundation, Coupled Human/Natural Systems: "Dynamic Interactions Among People, Livestock and Savanna Ecosystems Under Climate Change", David Campbell, Primary Investigator

WORKSHOPS

Spring 2008 College of Social Science Commencement Speaker Jean Palutikof held round table discussion

May 1. Dr. Palutikof is Head of the Technical Support unit for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), based in the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the UK Government Meteorological Office.

The IPCC team was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the "assessment of current scientific understanding of the impaacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability." The award is shared with Former US Vice President Al Gore.

HONORS

Center Adjunct David Lusch honored at University Awards Convocation February 12, 2008 Read MSU News Bulletin Coverage here

News Archive

2007 Update Newsletter from December 5 2007 Center-wide lunch meeting

NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Environmental Problems of Central Asia and Their Economic, Social and Security Impacts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, October 1-5, 2007

NEESPI Workshop, Urumqi China, Sept 16-20, 2007

2007/06/27 Grandparents University

2007/05/18 Recent Graduates

2007/05/02 Seminar Series

2007/03/16 Center Open House

2006/11/08 NEESPI Conference, Beijing, China

2005/February 2-5 LCLUC Conference Harbin, China

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