Volume 3 - Issue 2 - Home Page

• Laura Apol, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Department of Teacher Education
• College of Education

Writing for Healing: In Rwanda and Beyond

Laura Apol is a poet, writer, and associate professor in MSU's Department of Teacher Education. When the world presents a picture that is difficult or painful to look at, she believes that words and phrases can provide a way to understand and begin healing. This is the goal of her ongoing project, "Using Narrative Writing to Facilitate the Healing Process Among Survivors of the Genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda." ... read more

• Ted Loudon, Ph.D., P.E.
• Professor Emeritus
• Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
• College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• College of Engineering

Research and Collaboration Combine to Provide Clean, Affordable Water

Ted Loudon is an irrigation engineer by training. Much of his career focused on water quality impacts from livestock operations, including technologies for improving the quality of water before it is discharged back to the soil or water environment. As a research-active professor emeritus, Dr. Loudon now applies his expertise toward water purification research and training people across the world who do not have access to clean, affordable water ... read more

Competing Effectively in the Global Knowledge Economy

MSU Center for Community and Economic Development Partners with Regional Planners in Northern Michigan and Eastern Upper Peninsula to Identify Strategic Actions

With the shift from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy, individuals, organizations, and communities find themselves struggling to envision new livelihoods in an increasingly competitive global economy, and improve the quality of community life in an atmosphere of diminishing public resources. Continued high rates of unemployment, downsizing of automobile manufacturing plants, decreases in levels of home ownership ... read more