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Ian Duncan, adjunct professor of actuarial statistics at the University of California Santa Barbara and president-elect of the Society of Actuaries, or SOA will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Ronald H. and Mary E. Simon Lecture.  The event, set for Friday, Nov. 6, at the Graduate East Lansing hotel, is hosted by the Michigan State University Actuarial Science Program.

Josh Vermaas, an associate professor in theDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and theMSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, uses supercomputers to model the molecular machinery of plants and algae at a nanoscopic scale.

For 100 years, the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program has evolved alongside laboratory science, preparing generations of Spartans to make an impact in healthcare, research and beyond.

New research by EEB core faculty member Lydia Beaudrot and colleagues shows that, when deciding which species need protecting, extinction risk factors of the past can be powerful — but they’re not perfect.

In addition to overseeing the herbarium, Tank will take over teaching MSU’s Plant Systematics course while also rebuilding his research lab.

Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a counter defense used by a group of phages common in the human gut, called Enterobacteria phage T2, that helps them stay one step ahead of their bacterial hosts.