José Luis Mendoza Cortés is working to solve some of the most important questions facing our planet. As a faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mendoza uses the laws of nature to develop computational algorithms with machine learning and artificial intelligence focused on tackling climate …
Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments. It’s estimated that antimicrobial-resistant infections killed more than 1 million people worldwide in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. “There are worries that at the rate things are going, in perhaps 20 or 30 years, few of our drugs will …
Michigan State University’s Timothy Grotjohn, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for its 2023 class for his work on diamond process and device research and development. This prestigious recognition honors Grotjohn’s contributions to the field of diamond synthesis …
East Lansing, MI – As a Professor with Michigan State University’s (MSU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wen Li’s research interests range from microelectromechanical systems, nanoelectromechanical systems, microsensors, and actuators to biomimetic devices and systems; from microfluidic and lab-on-chip systems to microsystem integration and packaging technologies. “My team specializes in micro technologies, that is, …
East Lansing, MI – For over 25 years, Michigan State University (MSU) has spearheaded research and education in composite materials. These engineered materials combine two or more constituent materials to develop new materials with unique characteristics such as weight reduction, enhanced strength and durability, corrosion resistance, and minimized environmental impact. Dr. Mahmoodul Haq, Associate Professor …
East Lansing, MI – Xuefei Huang’s lifelong research has been focused on building tools to recognize and target carbohydrates. Not the carbohydrates commonly found in our food, clothing, paper, etc., but carbohydrates found on cell surfaces. “Human cells, bacteria surfaces, some virus surfaces; they all have carbohydrates,” says Huang. “What we’re interested in is developing …
The next time you walk through the woods in the dead of winter, take a moment to see if you can spot one of nature’s most persistent and heartiest survivors. No, not the patch of brown grasses peeking through a snowbank, or the acres of trees with their bare boughs and branches, waiting for spring. …
Björn Hamberger, Xuefei Huang and Alex Pollock of the College of Natural Science claimed three of the MSU Innovation Center’s top six annual awards presented at the 2024 Innovation Celebration in April. Björn Hamberger — 2024 Innovation of the Year Award Hamberger, the James K. Billman, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, claimed the 2024 Innovation of …
The assistant professor Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira has the resources at Michigan State University to precisely target cancer cells with diagnostics and therapies using radioisotopes produced by what is designed to be the world’s most powerful heavy-ion accelerator. She works in the highly collaborative Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, or IQ, and the …
For people who stutter, Siri, Alexa, and other voice-activated artificial intelligence technologies can feel like foes rather than friends. These technologies — hailed by most for their efficiency and convenience — fail on all counts for people who stutter like Jia Bin, an MSU doctoral student from China who leads the East Lansing chapter of …
