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Two faculty members from the College of Natural Science (NatSci) were among the honorees recognized by the MSU Innovation Center at the 8th annual Michigan State University Innovation Celebration on April 19.

MSU researchers received more than $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation for plant genome research that includes outreach work to create a children’s exhibit describing genes, heredity and the process of improving plant traits for agriculture.

On April 26 at 10:30 a.m., Kay Holekamp, one of the world’s leading behavioral ecologists, will be featured in East Lansing (Mich.) Public Library’s event, “Hyena Scientist!” as part of the critically acclaimed “Scientist in the Field” series.

Anna Groves, a Ph.D. candidate in the MSU Department of Plant Biology and the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, & Behavior Program in the College of Natural Science, is a recipient of the highly competitive 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship for this summer.

A new MSU study, led by physiology Professor Julia Busik, is the first to find that a particular type of lipid, or fat, thought to only exist in the skin, now lives in your eye and might play a major role in deterring the eye disease.

MSU Distinguished Professor Laurie S. Kaguni, internationally recognized for her expertise in the structural and mechanistic biochemistry of mitochondrial DNA replication, served as volume editor for the newly released comprehensive biochemistry encyclopedic reference, “Molecular Life Sciences.”

Scientists now have a clearer picture of the Earth’s mantle, thanks to research co-led by MSU geoscientist Susannah Dorfman that was published in the current issue of Nature Communications.

MSU NatSci doctoral student Allison Young will spend nine months in India as a Fulbright Scholar investigating some of the most vastly understudied and critically important species for the pollination of both agricultural and wild plants—tropical honey bees.