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New director named for MSU Institute of Water Research

AgBioResearch

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University Research Foundation Professor Pouyan Nejadhashemi has been named director of the MSU Institute of Water Research (IWR) effective Oct. 15, 2024. The position is a 50% appointment, and Nejadhashemi will continue to serves as a professor in the departments of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences. His work is also supported in …


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 …


Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification to become major partner of MSU Mobility’s Indy Autonomous Challenge team

MSU Today

Michigan State University announced today that the Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification has established a new partnership agreement with MSU’s Indy Autonomous Challenge team, PoliMOVE-MSU. The collaboration supports a variety of the team’s activities, helping to provide students with hands-on experiential learning with the latest connected and automated vehicle, or CAV, technologies in …


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 …


Hsu receives NIH, NSF awards for genetic studies

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Michigan State researcher Polly Hsu has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $3.7 million to continue her pioneering exploration of gene expression regulation — research with exciting applications for plant resilience and human health. These include a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, and a five-year award from the National Institutes of Health, …


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 researchers to explore climate change solutions based on Indigenous knowledge in new NSF grant

MSU Today

As we recognize Sustainability Month, we’re proud to highlight the incredible work of MSU faculty who are pioneering sustainable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. It’s long been known that Indigenous communities around the planet are on the frontlines of climate change impacts. In a new international joint initiative, researchers led by …


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 …


MSU researchers fight the battle against PFAS

MSU Today

Jason Grostic spends his days caring for cattle he’ll never sell. His 400-acre farm is covered with empty fields that may never again grow crops. Feed bins sit mostly empty. Every pasture except one is off limits to the cows now stuck in his barn.Just a few years ago, Grostic Cattle Company was a booming …


Harnessing AI to accelerate cancer drug development

College of Osteopathic Medicine

Putting his knowledge and passion for research to work to develop solutions to improve patients’ health and quality of life led Yasser Aldhamen, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology at Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, to collaborate with a TechBio company at the forefront of AI. With a …


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