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1 month ago | 
msutoday.msu.edu | Bethany Mauger
MSU mathematician explains the connection between statistics and sports
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
natsci.msu.edu | Bethany Mauger
In coding classes, faculty often use ChatGPT and generative AI and teach students how to prompt AI to generate the correct code, rather than asking them to write the code themselves. Photo credit: Finn GomezWhen Michele Weston is stuck on a statistics problem, she opens a new ChatGPT conversation. The Michigan State University plant biology graduate student crafts a prompt asking the chatbot to explain the problem to her. If she still doesn’t understand, she asks a follow-up question.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
natsci.msu.edu | Bethany Mauger
Robert Quinn, Michigan State University associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, works in his lab with a student. Photo credit: Finn GomezGut health is increasingly a big business. Whether you’re browsing supplements at the grocery store, scrolling social media or even buying soda, you’re bombarded with products promising to feed your microbiome. Influencers, fitness gurus and celebrities say a healthy gut is the key to wellness.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
astrobiology.com | Michael Greenwood |Bethany Mauger |Keith Cowing
If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere where it shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Now, we may have a better idea of why that took more than 2 billion years to happen.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
eurekalert.org | Michael Greenwood |Bethany Mauger
EAST LANSING, Mich. – If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere where it shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Now, we may have a better idea of why that took more than 2 billion years to happen.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
msutoday.msu.edu | Bethany Mauger
A state-of-the-art Plant and Environmental Sciences Building is officially under construction, accelerating climate-critical discoveries and advancing Michigan State University’s excellence in food security. MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Plant Environmental Sciences Building. Photo credit Derrick Turner. “World-class science requires world-class facilities to support new discoveries,” said MSU President Kevin M.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
techbeyondinfinity.com | Bethany Mauger
BYLINE: Bethany Mauger MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. Newswise — EAST LANSING, Mich. – Five hundred juvenile sturgeons were released into the Saginaw River system last week as part of an ongoing effort to bring the giant fish back from the brink of extinction. For more than 20 years, Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources have partnered to rebuild Black Lake’s sturgeon population.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
newswise.com | Bethany Mauger
MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request. EAST LANSING, Mich. – Five hundred juvenile sturgeons were released into the Saginaw River system last week as part of an ongoing effort to bring the giant fish back from the brink of extinction. For more than 20 years, Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources have partnered to rebuild Black Lake’s sturgeon population.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
msutoday.msu.edu | Bethany Mauger
Five hundred juvenile sturgeons were released into the Saginaw River system last week as part of an ongoing effort to bring the giant fish back from the brink of extinction. For more than 20 years, Michigan State University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources have partnered to rebuild Black Lake’s sturgeon population. Together, they opened the Black Lake Stream Side Rearing Facility, located in Onaway, Michigan, and have supplied sturgeons to a variety of hatcheries.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
msutoday.msu.edu | Bethany Mauger
For nearly a century, scientists have waged war on antibiotic-resistant microbes. Michigan State University researchers say they’ve found a new way to prevent it – by unleashing “DNA scavengers” in wastewater treatment plants.
