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Researchers from MSU and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium. These are the heaviest isotopes of these elements ever found.

Piotr Piecuch, Michigan State University Distinguished Professor of chemistry and adjunct professor of physics and astronomy, has been elected to one of physical science’s most exclusive learned societies, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS).

J. Emiliano Deustua, a fourth-year MSU Ph.D. chemistry student working with University Distinguished Professor Piotr Piecuch, has been awarded a prestigious Phase-I MolSSI Software Fellowship from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MoISSI).

Michigan State University nuclear physics researcher Jaideep Singh has received a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.

A discovery, led by scientists from Michigan State University and Tufts University and featured in the current issue of PNAS, shows the key genetic change the seventh cholera pandemic acquired to thrive for more than 50 years.

New research into a genetic mutation’s role in breast cancer could open new treatment options for an even more deadly disease, according to Eran Andrechek, an assistant professor in the MSU Department of Physiology.

MSU’s Department of Chemistry is hosting a 40th anniversary celebration of the FDA’s approval of the anti-cancer drug, cisplatin on Aug. 3-4. The two-day event  includes a reception and cancer research poster presentation on Friday evening, followed by an all-day symposium on Saturday.

Phillip Duxbury, professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in MSU’s College of Natural Science will be recommended as dean of the college. If approved by the MSU Board of Trustees on June 22, his appointment will take effect Aug. 16, 2018.