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[May 2010]
Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
MSU Priorities
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Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
- Jeffery Elsworth, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- The School of Hospitality Business
- Eli Broad College of Business
Restaurant Incubator Project has Right Ingredients for Entrepreneurial Success
More than a few people dream of owning their own restaurant. They envision the unique recipes, the lively customers who will enjoy their food, and the charming ambience of their own establishment. Jeff Elsworth, associate professor in The School of Hospitality Business at MSU's Eli Broad College of Business, knows there is so much more to it ...
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- Milind V. Khire, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- College of Engineering
Transforming Landfills into Landscapes
There's no question that landfill issues are important. For many, the thought of a landfill may conjure up a "can't live with it, can't live without it" attitude. But what if a completed landfill could be turned into a productive, sustainable thing of beauty? This may seem like a contradiction, but for Milind Khire ...
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MSU Priorities
Community and Economic Development in the 21st Century
MSU Product Center Offers Tools for Innovation and Market Competitiveness
Improving economic opportunities and profits for entrepreneurs, businesses, and industries in the Michigan agriculture, food, natural resources, and bioeconomy sectors is what the MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources is all about. The Center helps entrepreneurs and established companies develop and commercialize new product, market, and business ideas ...
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Upcoming Events
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 11th Conference
Portland, Oregon
May 12-15, 2010
Fundraising for Engagement: Leveraging Internal and External Resources for Institutional Engagement
Executive Development Program
Roanoke, Virginia
June 11-13, 2010
National Outreach Scholarship Conference
Raleigh, North Carolina
October 4-6, 2010
10th International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Indianapolis, Indiana
October 28-31, 2010
Looking for Project Partners?
Collaboration and partnership with communities are at the core of engaged scholarship. In all of its work, University Outreach and Engagement emphasizes university-community partnerships that are collaborative, participatory, empowering, systemic, transformative, and anchored in scholarship. If you are a faculty or academic staff member wanting to establish a partnership with community partners to work on a specific research issue, University Outreach and Engagement can help you. Our University-Community Partnerships (UCP) staff, specialists, and researchers have established connections across the state in a number of areas such as education, mental health, human services, business, and government. For more information, contact Bob Brown at (517) 432-1450 or brownr23@msu.edu.
Focus: HOPE, Detroit, MI
Opportunities for partnership exist around the following areas: service-learning, student internships and placements, faculty research partnerships, and development of innovative solutions to pressing social problems. For more information, contact Deborah E. Fisher at (313) 494-4306 or fisherd@focushope.edu, or visit http://ucp.msu.edu/partnerships/.
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