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| A mother spotted hyena and cub at Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve where MSU professor Kay Holekamp is conducting research. Photo courtesy of Kay Holekamp. |
Water contamination and lack of infrastructure for water and sewage systems have contributed to the global burden of waterborne diseases throughout Africa and the developing world. MSU faculty study waterborne disease throughout the African continent, collaborating with groups such as the World Health Organization and the International Water Association.
The overall objective of the Climate Land Interaction Project, or CLIP, is to understand the nature and magnitude of the interactions of climate and land use/cover change across East Africa.
MSU zoology professor Kay Holekamp is considered one of the world's leading experts on spotted hyenas. Holekamp and her students are in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve conducting research to answer fundamental research questions in the areas of disease ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation. Read more.
The Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program is a research and training program that supports international research partnerships to increase the availability of beans and cowpeas (which in the United States are mainly black-eyed peas).
MSU faculty are among a network of scientists working with a project known as LUCID. This is a group that has been studying land use change in East Africa and its implications for land degradation, biodiversity and climate change for many years.
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