Featured MSU Engaged Scholars
- Adrian Blow, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
- College of Social Science
- Michigan Army National Guard
- State Family Programs
Community Engagement Scholarship Award Honors University-Military Collaboration
The 2018 Community Engagement Scholarship Award recognizes Adrian Blow and his longstanding collaboration with the Michigan Army National Guard.
Since October 2006, Blow has worked with a range of community partners to address the challenges of reintegration faced by returning National Guard soldiers and their families.
Blow's partnerships were formed with the goals of: developing an effective reintegration system to serve returning soldiers and their families; reducing occurrences of depression, substance abuse, domestic abuse and suicide through longitudinal research; and developing reintegration activities and programs ...
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- Bo Norby, D.V.M., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
- College of Veterinary Medicine
Discovering the Growing Costs of a Growing Epidemic in the U.S. Dairy Industry
Dairy cow producers deal with the costly impacts of herd-health issues and cow well-being on a daily basis. While some health issues, such as mastitis and lameness, are well-known cost culprits, others have not been so obvious.
Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) has been a growing epidemic in U.S. dairy herds for decades, but because most BLV-positive cows are asymptomatic, it has received little attention from dairy producers. As a result, almost all American herds now have BLV-infected cows, a situation that may have far-reaching cost and animal welfare implications.
Bo Norby, building on the work of researchers from MSU's College of Veterinary Medicine, received a USDA grant last year to study the impact of BLV on the occurrence and severity of other diseases, such as mastitis, in dairy cows ...
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- Andreas Hoffrichter, Ph.D.
- Burkhardt Professor in Railway Management
- Executive Director, Center for Railway Research and Education
- Eli Broad College of Business
- Nicholas Little, M.C.I.P.S., C.P.S.M.
- Director, Railway Education
- Center for Railway Research and Education
- Eli Broad College of Business
Railway Center at MSU Aims a Wide Lens at a Complex Industry
Andreas Hoffrichter first became intrigued by trains at a young age. "There are pictures of me playing with trains when I was about two or three years old," Hoffrichter said. "So basically I made my passion into a profession."
That early fascination with trains is pretty common among those who study railway systems. Nicholas Little has been involved in the railway and management certification program since its inception.
"The first photograph of me connected with a train was taken when I was about three years old. I was standing on the foot plate of a steam engine. My dad was working in an army supply depot—this was a local train that took supplies to the main line—and I went into work with him most Saturdays," Little recalled ...
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