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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Concluding its retreat at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine Building in Flint, Michigan, the MSU Board of Trustees today approved the university’s fiscal year 2024-25 operating budget presented by the administration, which includes tuition and fee rates for the 2024-25 academic year. The new budget includes a flat increase of $235 per semester or $470 per …
Addressing the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions and making the power grid more reliable are two noteworthy goals of a new, fast-growing company whose technology was developed at Michigan State University (MSU). RedoxBlox, named the 2024 MSU Startup of the Year, is at the forefront of energy storage technology, providing innovative solutions for power …
