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MSU awarded one of the NSF’s six Global Centers to solve worldwide food challenges

MSU Today

Michigan State University has been awarded one of six Global Centers through the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and its partner agencies in the U.S., Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic of Korea or ROK and the United Kingdom. The funding awards were announced today totaling nearly $82 million in the Global Centers competition. “MSU’s International …


Piezoelectric liquids: NSF award builds on first-ever discovery

Department of Chemistry

Michigan State University chemist Gary Blanchard has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his cutting-edge exploration of the piezoelectric effect in liquids. This award will provide $450,000 over three years and build upon an unprecedented discovery first reported by Blanchard and former doctoral student Md Iqbal Hossain in early 2023. Piezoelectric materials generate electric charge under …


NSF grant awarded to study what happens when plants “overspend”

MSU-DOE Plant Research Labratory

Researchers Berkley Walker and Hiroshi Maeda have been awarded a total of $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how plants compensate when they “overspend” the carbon that they take in during photosynthesis.   Plants make their own food through photosynthesis. They grab carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to make sugars and other compounds, which …


MSU Animal Science FFAR Fellows poised to advance future of dairy research, sustainability

College of Agriculture and Natural Recources

Paiton McDonald and Haylee Reisinger, Animal Science graduate students, have been selected as Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellows, which offers opportunities to further advance their impactful dairy research Paiton McDonald and Haylee Reisinger, graduate students in the MSU Department of Animal Science, have been selected as members of the 2024-2027 cohort for …


MSU’s Indy Autonomous Challenge team takes first place in passing overtake competition

Michigan State University

Michigan State University and Politecnico di Milano’s team, PoliMOVE-MSU, competed in the seventh edition of the Indy Autonomous Challenge at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sept. 6, taking first place in the passing competition and second place in the time trials competition. The team’s self-driving AV-24 race car, piloted by an AI driver developed by …


Another $5 million for industrial assessment center

College of Engineering

The Michigan State University Industrial Assessment Center has received another $5 million in its work to make manufacturing and commercial operations more sustainable throughout Michigan and the broader United States. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, it extends the efforts of the MSU IAC that began in 2021 to …


MSU water expert honored for career protecting public health

MSU Today

Michigan State University water microbiologist Joan Rose was honored for her lifetime of water research with the International Water Association Global Water Award. She was recognized Aug. 10 at the IWA World Water Conference in Toronto, Canada. It’s the latest accolade in a storied career for Rose, who is the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research and director …


MSU’s ‘seeds in space’ collaboration wins NASA award

College of Natural Science

NASA has awarded a prestigious Group Silver Achievement Award to the team behind a project known as Biological Experiment-01, which includes Michigan State University researchers led by Federica Brandizzi. Biological Experiment-01, also shortened to BioExperiment-01 and BioExpt-01, was a collection of four separate but related projects that flew aboard NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I mission that orbited the …


MSU researchers receive international communication honors

MSU Today

Researchers in the Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences have been recognized as top scholars in the field of communication. Danielle K. Brown, a journalist and researcher who uses her craft to foster racial justice, and Maria Lapinski, a leading scholar of health and risk communication, recently received honors from the International Communications Association, or ICA, which …


MSU ranked in top 25 globally for sustainability by Times Higher Education

MSU Today

Michigan State University is now in the top 25 in the world in sustainability according to the Times Higher Education 2024 Impact Rankings, the leading global performance index for how well universities are meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. MSU is ranked No. 3 in the country and No. 25 in the …


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