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Alumni and friends of the college gathered to peer into the future of sustainability with Spartan student and faculty experts

Researchers from the Zipkin lab look back at a century of change in statistical ecology.

Melanie Cooper, Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at MSU, was recognized for her transformative work.

Upgrades will help power innovation in plant science, agriculture and sustainability

Björn Hamberger, Xuefei Huang and Alexander Pollack were among the 2024 awardees recognized by the MSU Innovation Center

Elias Aydi shares the story of a star explosion that will soon light up the night sky

“Dr. Long is a motivator, mentor and inspiration"

MSU researchers have made an evolutionary biology breakthrough

MSU, Harvard Medical School team up to expand vaccine science’s role in the fight against MRSA and other infections

The College of Natural Science’s annual event honored its outstanding alumni, faculty and students.

FRIB researchers lead effort to merge nuclear physics experiments and astronomical observations

The College of Natural Science has three newly minted Red Cedar Distinguished Professors

Zhang joins as the chair of the Department of Statistics and Probability

Using molecular dynamics, researchers from the Kramer and Vermaas labs showed how electrons move through a crystal, jumping from heme to heme. The researchers found that the rate at which the electrons jump from one heme to another highly depended on the temperature of the crystal.

Cheryl Kerfeld was a panelist at an event in Washington, DC commemorating US innovation at the nanoscale.

Dave Dvorak's dedication to the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station helps this sanctuary for environmental research flourish and grow.

Michigan State University students Libby Ashby and Aaron Philip have earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, becoming the university’s 54th and 55th Goldwater Scholars. 

Spartan researchers join a nationwide team to create a new way to design cell-sized microfactories that could help make medicines, biofuels and more.

Researchers from MSU and UC Riverside have shown that viral diseases from farmland have spread to native habitats.

McGraw is the new chair of the Department of Integrative Biology, bringing “new dimensions of scholarship and leadership” to the university.

Spartan researchers show deep biogeographic divides drive divergent evolutionary paths

Xuefei Huang is helping enable research into new potential therapies for cancer, brain disease, autoimmune disorders and more.

In a recent study in Plant Physiology, Michigan State University researchers revealed a misconception that had been growing in plant science about one of the fundamental puzzle pieces of photosynthesis. In correcting the record, researchers can now think about using this knowledge to improve plant function and grow more efficient crops.

Classes Without Quizzes is an experience unlike any other where faculty will share an insider’s look at innovative research on environmental sustainability.

Spartan scientists are working to better understand and protect this resource that connects us all.

Maeve McLaughlin was one of 24 co-authors who published a commentary in the journal Cell.

An MSU astronomer shares what you need to know for this and other out-of-this-world events on the horizon. 

A new study from MSU shows how soil microbes near the Centralia mine fire could provide clues to help alleviate effects of climate change.

The award is DOE's highest form of employee recognition for achievement.

Thanks to a bit of serendipity and a cooperative spirit, MSU researchers helped uncover a previously unknown way that the microbes living in our gut help our overall health.

MSU research "has the potential to affect every single bag of potato chips around the world.”

A new model bridges the rules of life at the individual scale and the ecosystem level, which could open new avenues of exploration in ecology, global change biology, and ultimately ecosystem management

Spartans lead an international team in making new nuclei and paving the way to new discoveries

Michigan State University researchers have shed new light on the ancient relationship between moss and fungi in a recent paper published in The Plant Journal.