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Gina Leinninger, MSU assistant professor of physiology in the College of Natural Science, is the 2019-20 recipient of the prestigious American Physiology Society’s Central Nervous System Section New Investigator Award.

MSU experimental physicist Jaideep Taggart Singh is part of a team of scientists examining why the observable universe contains virtually no antimatter, despite its relatively abundant existence in the early history of the universe. Their findings were recently published in the journal Reviews of Modern Physics.

Researchers at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, led by University Distinguished Professor Thomas Sharkey, shed more light on one of the backup systems that support photosynthesis through difficult conditions. The study is published in Plant Physiology.

Four Michigan State University College of Natural Science (NatSci) faculty members—Jeffrey Freymueller, Dalton Hardisty, Allen McNamara and Songqiao “Shawn” Wei—were formally invested as endowed faculty members at a ceremony held March 21 at MSU’s Wharton Center.

New research conducted by MSU and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals a wider, more-accurate spectrum of threats that have contributed to the monarch population’s downward trend beyond the traditional indicators of winter habitat loss and fewer milkweed plants.

In recent issues of Nature Communications and the Journal of Chemical Physics, MSU researchers employed high-speed lasers to shine a spotlight on the mechanisms that are key in trihydrogen (H₃⁺) creation and its unusual chemistry to better understand what is acknowledged by scientists as the molecule that made the universe.

In a new study published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, MSU scientists show that hyenas that form strong coalitions can gain social status, which can have lasting benefits over many generations.

Kristen Hendricks, an MSU assistant professor of mathematics in the College of Natural Science, is one of 20 researchers who received a prestigious 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in mathematics.