Noah Durst News Today

Republican State Representative Ryan Guillen of Starr County has introduced a bill to weaken Texas law in place to stop the spread of colonias—border settlements with substandard infrastructure. Now local officials and experts fear what will happen if Guillen’s bill passes.

MSU researchers, including Dong Zhao, CM Associate Professor, and Noah Durst, UP Assistant Professor, continue their work designing smart cities with an electric vehicle charging station network within Michigan and throughout the U.S.

MSU junior earns competitive graduate school scholarship Wisdom Henry, an Honors College junior majoring in history, and urban and regional planning in the College of Social Science, has been selected as one of 16 students from a pool of 95 nominees across the country to receive a Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke Scholarship pays for up to $34,000 in support for graduate school for students studying the fields of art, humanities or social science. Henry plans to pursue a doctorate in U.S. hi...

No water. No heat. No electricity. Those were the conditions millions of Texans were thrown into when a snowstorm barreled through the state last week. But for tens of thousands of people living along the border with Mexico, losing these services didn’t just mean struggling through a few cold nights. Their lives were already so precarious that the freezing temperatures made even survival a challenge. For Nohemí, who lives in a community of informal settlements known as a colonia in South Tex...