Russ White
I host and produce MSU Today for News/Talk 760 @wjrradio and @MichiganStateU's @NPR affiliate @WKAR News/Talk 102.3 FM and AM 870.
Appears in 376 Episodes
Ask The Expert: What’s the latest on COVID and Mpox?
As the university physician at Michigan State, Michael Brown advises the president and other leaders on major health policy and programs that impact life on campus or ...
MSU Psychiatrist Viewing Wellness Through the Lens of Equity
Farha Abbasi is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and core faculty member of the Muslim Studies Program. And ...
Meet the Dean: Heidi Hennink-Kaminski comes home to lead MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Heidi Hennink-Kaminski is the new dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University. She details her background and research interest...
Former Spartans Quarterback Bill Burke writes about “triumph through transformation” in Victory Outside The Arena
Former Spartan quarterback Bill Burke has written a book titled Victory Outside The Arena: How Athletes Can Go From Isolated To Inspired Once The Applause Begins To Fa...
MSU Professor, Olympian leads Paris community art project in advance of 2024 Olympics
Michigan State University Professor and Olympian Kelly Salchow MacArthur is once again part of the Olympics, this time leading a community art project. Through the Oly...
MSU researchers discover honeybees can detect lung cancer
Michigan State University researchers have discovered that honeybees can detect biomarkers or chemical concentrations associated with lung cancer in human breath. The ...
Growing research portfolio empowering MSU’s mission of impacting lives
MSU Strategic Plan 2030: Empowering Excellence, Advancing Equity and Expanding Impact identifies goals within six key themes: student success, staff and faculty succes...
A Catalyst for Change: Henry Ford Health, Michigan State University Celebrate Groundbreaking of Research Center in Detroit
Scientists, community members, students, officials and more mark a pivotal moment as work begins on the 335,000-square-foot research facility Hundreds of community ...
The Spartan duo dominating Detroit radio
MSU Com Art Sci alumni Mike Valenti and Rico Beard host the top show on the top radio station in Detroit. It’s The Valenti Show with Rico on 97.1 The Ticket. Valenti e...
MSU joins Indy Autonomous Challenge, partners with Milan team
Michigan State University is racing into the future by participating in the Indy Autonomous Challenge, which officially launched in 2019 and brings together academic i...
Risk from bird flu remains low for general public, says MSU expert.
State of the State is the monthly roundup of policy and research for the state of Michigan from MSU’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR). Arnold W...
MSU researchers embedded in the community are helping with Flint’s most pressing public health issues
The Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health focuses on population health from its home base – the College of Human Medicine’s Flint campus. Being embedded in ...
Walstrom Family Gift to MSU Supports Women’s Health Research, Medical Care
New endowed fund to foster next generation of women’s health leaders To close the gap between women’s health research and other scientific disciplines, Ward and Mari...
Faculty career development a key component of MSU 2030 strategic plan
Teresa Mastin is vice provost and associate vice president for faculty and academic staff affairs at MSU. She joins Bill Beekman, vice president for strategic initiati...
State of the State podcast examines unionization momentum in the United States
Matt Grossmann, Charley Ballard, and Arnold Weinfeld from Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) discuss the latest in Mic...
MSU jazz professor, Detroit jazz icon elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rodney Whitaker, University Distinguished Professor of Jazz Bass and director of Jazz Studies in the Michigan State University College of Music, is among the class of ...
Darien Harris talks business development and NIL for Spartan athletes
Darien Harris is Spartan Athletics’ assistant athletic director for business development and NIL strategy. He provides leadership for Michigan State Athletics’ award-w...
How spirituality is expanding beyond religion
Spirituality is declining in the United States if you focus on religious affiliation, but that isn’t the whole story according to Morgan Shipley, associate professor o...
Are you happy? MSU researchers discuss factors that impact our happiness
Are you happy? What is happiness exactly? Is it true what Abraham Lincoln is said to have said, that we’re just about as happy as we decide we want to be? Is happiness...
Comprehensive student success approach helps Spartans flourish as students and citizens
Though many of us may think of student success as graduating and finding a good job, our three guests today will share with us that it is much more than that. We think...
MSU researchers on vaccine hesitancy and respectfully educating citizens
It takes only one case of measles or other vaccine-preventable diseases for an outbreak to begin. But vaccines can prevent or lessen the severity of conditions for ev...
“Complex infrastructure” delivers power and water needs to a “complex institution”
Stewardship and Sustainability is a key theme in the MSU 2030 strategic plan. We discuss progress on implementation of this part of the plan with Bill Beekman, MSU’s v...
MSU research, education and clinical care “meet the health needs of the entire state”
Michigan State University Executive Vice President for Health Sciences Norman J. Beauchamp Jr., M.D., M.H.S. and MSU Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Bill Beek...
3 MSU faculty named Senior Members of the 2024 National Academy of Inventors
Michigan State University researchers Evangelyn Alocilja, André Bachmann, and Richard Lunt have been named Senior Members by the National Academy of Inventors. The M...
Student success initiatives help more Spartans learn, thrive, and graduate
Student success is a key theme in the MSU 2030 strategic plan. Student success is the measure of an institution’s ability to provide an inclusive, equitable curriculu...
Vision 2050 comprehensive facilities and land use plan a key component in MSU 2030 strategic plan
On this episode of MSU Today, a conversation on progress and implementation of a key objective in the Stewardship and Sustainability theme of the MSU 2030 strategic pl...
MSU College of Human Medicine hosts inaugural Remembrance Conference to address gun violence
The conference provided attendees with actions and solutions they can take back to their institutions. There’s a burgeoning relationship between Michigan State Univers...
International artist visiting MSU for residency at intersection of art, science and technology
As part of Michigan State University’s 2024 MSUFCU Arts Power Up artists-in-residence, Abel Korinsky (representative of Studio Korinsky) of Berlin, Germany, is in resi...
MSU drives conversation, research on the future of work
You have likely heard about ChatGPT, and you might even have the application downloaded on your phone. But have you thought about how technology — and artificial intel...
Alumni Ashton Henderson and Jack Ebling reflect on MSU Com Art Sci’s impact on their lives and careers
Ashton Henderson and Jack Ebling are 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award honorees from MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences. Henderson received his bachelor’s in...
