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Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian: Repurposing Agricultural Waste into Marketable Products

Although our farmers may feed the world, agriculture can also create waste byproducts that harm our environment. To help make farming a greener practice, Dr. Bahar Aliakbarian, an Associate Professor in the MSU Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Director of Development and Research at the Axia Institute, is researching how the industry can …


Expert in Polymers and Materials Research to Join MSU

An award-winning expert in polymeric materials has been appointed to the Craig A. Rogerson Endowed Professorship in Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. Michael Hickner is currently a professor of materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, and chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University. He joins MSU in January 2023. Christina Chan, interim chair and a …


Guan-Hua Tu Faculty Bio

Assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Guan-Hua Tu, has been researching the security of 4G/5G networks in order to discover design problems within cellular networks.  Through his research, Tu has developed a variety of tools and applications that can help the operators and the mobile device manufacturers to quickly discover the …


Current MSU students, Matthew Rogien and Logan Nash, Developing Advanced Wearable Pepper Spray

Current MSU students Matthew Rogien and Logan Nash are developing a technologically- advanced, wearable pepper spray called My Triple 4s (444). Working with the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s MSU Hatch, Matt and Logan conducted more than 150 surveys, asking for opinions on self-defense technology. “People are currently carrying around the classic bulky, ugly …


Kristen Cetin Audio Interview

Director of MSU Industrial Assessment Center, Kristen Cetin, discusses “Getting Green” and how we can better involve students with hands on experience with energy and manufacturing related fields. Click here to hear more.


MSU graduate creates an easy way for students to learn a new language

Learning a new language is not an easy task. That alone was enough to inspire Michigan State University alumnus Seth Killian to create a user-friendly platform that not only eases the learning process, but also accelerates the task. Lingco is an online language instruction platform for schools that instructors use to create, assign, and grade …


Power generation you can see through

This article has been reposted from MSUToday. MSU and Ubiquitous Energy install transparent solar panels on campus The Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building on the campus of Michigan State University received a first-of-its-kind upgrade with the installation of transparent solar glass panels. The 100 square feet of transparent solar glass installed above the building’s entryway …


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