Hear the Conversation 19:24 min – 11.1 mb mp3 Former Spartan basketball player Lauren Aitch joins Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis for a conversation about how being a Spartan athlete has impacted her thriving entrepreneurial spirit. She says all the discipline required to succeed as a Spartan [...]

Hear the Show 54 min – 30 mb mp3 Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with Tom Izzo. And then they talk with University Research Corridor Executive Director Jeff Mason.

Hear the Conversation 19:41 min – 11.2 mb mp3 Jeff Mason leads Michigan’s University Research Corridor, an alliance between Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University to transform, strengthen and diversify the state’s economy. The URC partners formed this alliance to improve the understanding of the vital role these three universities [...]

Hear the Show 54 min – 30 mb mp3 In this edition of MSU Today on News/Talk 760 WJR Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with MSU’s Deputy Athletic Director Greg Ianni about the new video boards at Spartan Stadium and about Greg’s role maintaining and [...]

Hear the Conversation 28:01 – 16 mb mp3 Detroit-based Michigan State University entrepreneurial alumni Henry Balanon and Ben Bator join Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon, Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis and MSU Alumni Association Executive Director Scott Westerman for a wide-ranging discussion on the thriving entrepreneurial technology sector growing in the Motor [...]

Hear the Conversation 18:13 – 8.3 mb mp3 Rick Foster tells me about a world that will be entirely different from the one we live in now, where 70 percent of the 9.3 billion people on the planet 50 years from now will be living in cities. They may well be talking about growing food [...]

Hear the Conversation 9:37 – 5.5 mb mp3 Detroit and Michigan State University are working together to develop a broad program of food system innovation to promote local economic development, land recovery, and food security. It’s called Metro Food Plus Innovation Cluster @ Detroit, and “it’s all about how we utilize our land and resources [...]

Hear the Show 47:27 – 27.1 mb mp3 In this edition of MSU Today on News/Talk 760 WJR Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartan alumnus and Detroit entrepreneur Dan Gilbert discuss the importance of Detroit’s renaissance to the revitalization of Michigan’s economy. On June 14, 2012, Gilbert hosted Simon for “A [...]

Michigan State University alumnus and philanthropist Robert Skandalaris talks about innovation and entrepreneurship on the occasion of receiving his honorary doctorate of business from his alma mater on May 4, 2012.

Hear the Conversation 28:24 – 16.2 mb mp3 Charles Hasemann is Executive Director of Business Connect, MSU’s front door for corporations. He joins Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis for a conversation about MSU Business Connect and Spartan Innovations. “We’re both responsive to people and companies who [...]