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For more than 150 years, the MSU Herbarium has been preserving and classifying plant life ranging from the tiniest specimens to the giants of the plant kingdom. With more than 540,000 specimens, it’s considered one of the top herbaria in the United States.

Federica Brandizzi, an MSU plant scientist who has made distinguished and varied contributions to advance the field of plant cell biology has been named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Efstratia (Effie) Kalfagianni, MSU professor of mathematics, was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for 2019.

Twenty-five outstanding MSU College of Natural Science (NatSci) faculty, staff and students were recognized for their achievements and contributions at the NatSci Annual State of the College meeting and Awards Ceremony held Nov. 16 at MSU’s Molecular Plant Sciences Building.

Garrett King, a Michigan State University College of Natural Science senior majoring in physics, was nominated earlier this month by MSU for the Churchill Scholarship—a nationally competitive STEM scholarship that pays for graduate school in the United Kingdom.

Michigan State University evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski was inducted into the American Philosophical Society (APS) — the oldest "learned society" in the United States — on Nov. 9 in Philadelphia.

MSU's Department of Physiology held its 7th Annual Physiology Understanding (PhUn) Day on Oct. 27 at the Impression 5 Museum in Lansing, Mich., where area school children have the opportunity each year to have “PhUn” while learning about the science of the human body. The event attracted an estimated 740 visitors.

New MSU research published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters, adds a dimension to the vertical perspective of the carbon cycle by showing how water moves massive amounts of carbon laterally through ecosystems – especially during floods.