A new pre-seed venture fund at the University of Michigan’s Innovation Partnerships has launched and is now accepting applications for investment opportunities. The Michigan University Innovation Capital Fund focuses on investing in Michigan startup companies that have a license to commercialize university technologies from one of the state’s 15 public universities. Announced in January 2024 by Michigan Lt. Gov. …
A new genetically engineered potato developed by Michigan State University potato breeder Dave Douches has been granted exemption from the biotechnology regulations placed on genetically modified products by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS). The Kal91.3 potato is bred from an MSU potato variety named Kalkaska. The newly developed …
Peter Lundquist, an assistant professor in the College of Natural Science, has won a $1.5 million Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will support his cutting-edge research into the biochemistry of how plants respond to stress. The grant will also support new education and outreach designed to help …
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 …
On April 24, 2024, the Michigan State University Product Center recognized several food and beverage businesses for their achievements over the past year. Protein Pints, a company founded in 2022 by two best friends who were craving a better way to consume protein, was recognized with the Young Innovator of the Year Award. Protein Pints is a …
Each year the Michigan State University Product Center recognizes an emerging client business who has demonstrated excellence, innovation, and growth within the last five years with the Start Up to Watch Award. This year’s business Start Up to Watch awardee, Mushroom Angel Company, has shown consistent success and growth in entrepreneurial and business development, annual sales, and …
LANSING, MI — Michigan State University School of Packaging (SoP) will unveil the MSU Collective for NewProductWorks on April 10, 2024, at the Smithers Facility in Lansing, Michigan. The result of decades of painstaking curation and archival research, the MSU Collective for NewProductWorks contains more than 140,000 packaged goods manufactured from 1980 onwards, encompassing 350 categories in …
EAST LANSING, MI — A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Lansing has introduced three new bills to establish the Michigan Innovation Fund that would provide critical funding support to Michigan’s existing early-stage evergreen venture funds and entrepreneur ecosystem. Michigan House Bills 5651, 5652 and 5653, sponsored by Representative Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn), Jason Hoskins (D-Southfield) and …
Like many great honors, it began with a missed phone call and an email asking if there was time to chat. Soon enough, Michigan State’s Melanie Cooper had gotten the good news — she’d been elected to the National Academy of Education. “It was a thrill and honor,” said Cooper, a professor of chemistry and …
Michigan State University has officially launched its effort to modernize its research greenhouse facilities supporting leading-edge plant research and education. “MSU is a world-leading center for plant sciences research that drives innovation in the agricultural economy and addresses the impacts of a changing climate and emerging diseases, pests and contaminants,” said Phil Duxbury, dean of …
