Dietz is director and Liu a member of MSU's ESPP, a groundbreaking new effort that gathers the university's vast multidisciplinary resources to best position students, scientists and society for change and balance for the future.

"Understanding the complex interactions between people and their natural and built environments requires scientific analysis and synthesis that engage scientists and engineers to think more broadly and innovatively than they have had to think in the past," said Tom Baerwald, a senior science adviser and program director at the National Science Foundation, and co-organizer of the AAAS symposium. "We have evaluated many exciting proposals in recent biocomplexity competitions and Michigan State researchers have been among the leaders in this process both as researchers proposing projects and as reviewers evaluating them."

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Contact: Tom Oswald
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Michigan State University
14-Feb-2004