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IPF helps Engineering students gain real-world experience
Imagine a fleet of robots, mowing their way across acres of campus fields, freeing up skilled staff so they may tackle the hundreds of other essential landscaping duties that keep our campus looking beautiful.
From cutting grass to “cutting-edge”
IPF Landscape Services manager Matt Bailey and his staff are employing new green industry technologies that have the potential to save money and more efficiently deploy staffing, all while continuing to keep the campus landscape beautiful and safe.
Facilities Focus - November 2019 - Volume 7
Volume seven of the Facilities Focus e-newsletter
Get to know IPF: Alex Bolin
When Landscape Architecture student Alex Bolin joined IPF Landscape Services close to two years ago, he knew he’d be learning a lot from his fellow staff members, but he had no idea just how much insight he’d gain from one of his closest coworkers, a 1500-pound workaholic named Mow-bot.
Natural Science partnership magnifies IPF's importance to research
MSU’s latest state-of-the-art research equipment acquisition, the cryogenic electron microscope (cryo-EM) would not have been possible if not for the diligent work of Natural Science Senior Associate Dean David DeWitt, assistant professor Kristin Parent and various members of Team IPF.
IPF provides a strong footing for student rowing club
In the wee hours of Oct. 11, as the MSU Men’s Crew Club rowing team practiced in the Grand River under the watchful eye of the triple smokestacks of the downtown power station, IPF Landscape Services crew members busily prepared to install new gravel walkways from the club’s boathouse to the dock.
Get to know your IPF crews: Set Up
Imagine an MSU without men’s basketball, football, wrestling or commencement. That’s what the university would be like without the IPF Set Up crew.
Peddling life-saving ideas
Tim Potter saw a problem and wanted to be part of a solution. From 2013 to 2017, 3,958 cyclists died in the US alone; 98% of these the result of collisions with motor vehicles.
Leadership Assessment Tool helps build IPF's future
In 2016, the Executive Leadership Team identified succession planning an essential long-term strategy for IPF. With large numbers of employees nearing retirement eligibility, planning for future leadership development is critical. However, there were very few clearly identified paths for career development available.
Get to know IPF: Carolyn Miller
For some, the phrase ‘tree hugger’ has derogatory connotations; Carolyn Miller wears it as a badge of honor.