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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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August 5, 2024
KBS experience inspires Yager teaching award winner
How Kirsten Salonga’s approach to science education was shaped by a research experience for teachers
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August 5, 2024
Tuo Wang receives American Chemical Society's Horace S. Isbell Award
The accolade recognizes research excellence in the realm of carbohydrate chemistry.
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July 31, 2024
Discovering how plants make life-and-death decisions
Researchers in the Brandizzi lab have discovered two proteins that work in tandem to control an important response to cell stress
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July 30, 2024
Hegg recommended as dean
Eric Hegg has been recommended to serve as the next dean of the College of Natural Science, effective Sept. 1, 2024
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July 25, 2024
How staph slips around
Research reveals conditions that accelerate the spread of infectious bacteria
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July 24, 2024
Ask the expert: Who is the best Olympic weightlifter?
Marianne Huebner is changing how scores are determined in weightlifting
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July 23, 2024
Sugary Surprise Nets UURAF Grand Prize
Research on newly discovered root metabolites earns PLB undergrad grand prize at research forum.
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July 12, 2024
MSU’s ‘seeds in space’ earn NASA recognition
NASA awarded its Silver Achievement Medal to a multi-institution team that includes researchers from the College of Natural Science
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July 10, 2024
Soranno selected for National Nature Assessment
PatriciaSoranno will lead a chapter for this first-ever report to examine impacts of lost land, waters and wildlife
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July 8, 2024
Green gold: Turning trees into 'biofactories'
Spartan researchers have developed a way to get poplar trees to produce valuable molecules usually derived from shark livers
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July 8, 2024
Single atoms show their true color
A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future electronics
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July 2, 2024
Helping students hear the stories that data tell
The Data Nuggets program is promoting data literacy while making science more relatable
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July 1, 2024
Keeping bacteria at bay on grilling day
Summer is the time for grilling, but as cooking moves from the kitchen to the patio, unwelcome bacterial guests can tag along for dinner.
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July 1, 2024
Vermaas awarded NIH MIRA Grant
The nearly $1.8 million award will support work in drug discovery through molecular dynamics research in plants
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June 27, 2024
DIY lab tool evaluates new molecules in minutes
The tool speeds up a crucial method in which nematodes help determine if plant-derived molecules are beneficial or harmful
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June 24, 2024
Insecticides are main driver of butterfly decline
A team led by MSU researchers has revealed the leading cause of butterfly loss in the Midwest
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June 21, 2024
Transforming drug discovery with AI
New MSU-led research uses technology related to ChatGPT to accelerate advances in medicine
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June 17, 2024
FRIB helps advance understanding of proton halos
The first results from FRIB’s precision measurement program measure the mass of a rare isotope
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June 12, 2024
MSU student earns program's first Fulbright grant
Medical laboratory science student Katie McGraw awarded Fulbright grant to research malaria
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June 11, 2024
'Flares' and 'echoes' from the Milky Way's monster black hole
Spartans have uncovered new information about the galaxy’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*
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June 10, 2024
Lundquist receives NSF CAREER Award
The award supports Peter Lundquist’s search for “master regulators” in the stress response of plants
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June 4, 2024
An apple a day keeps the doctorate under way
Rose Kithan-Lundquist, a doctoral student in MGI, is inspired by her family to reduce food waste.
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May 24, 2024
Faculty honored for scientific excellence
Several researchers have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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May 21, 2024
New grant supports fight against gut pain
NIH awards nearly $1.8 million to MSU to explore the cellular basis of visceral pain
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May 20, 2024
Solving quantum many-body problems
FRIB reserachers are helping solve complex computational problems with a new method called wavefunction matching.
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May 17, 2024
Classes Without Quizzes celebrates 14 years
Alumni and friends of the college gathered to peer into the future of sustainability with Spartan student and faculty experts
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May 14, 2024
MSU lab reviews a century of statistical ecology
Researchers from the Zipkin lab look back at a century of change in statistical ecology.
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May 10, 2024
Cooper elected to National Academy of Education
Melanie Cooper, Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at MSU, was recognized for her transformative work.
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May 9, 2024
MSU’s greenhouses are growing into the future
Upgrades will help power innovation in plant science, agriculture and sustainability
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May 7, 2024
College stars shine at Innovation Celebration
Björn Hamberger, Xuefei Huang and Alexander Pollack were among the 2024 awardees recognized by the MSU Innovation Center
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May 1, 2024
Ask the expert: The nova in our 'galactic backyard'
Elias Aydi shares the story of a star explosion that will soon light up the night sky
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April 29, 2024
Tammy Long earns President's Distinguished Teaching Award
“Dr. Long is a motivator, mentor and inspiration"
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April 24, 2024
Uncovering a 'parallel universe' in tomato genetics
MSU researchers have made an evolutionary biology breakthrough
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April 24, 2024
A vaccine to fight antibiotic resistance
MSU, Harvard Medical School team up to expand vaccine science’s role in the fight against MRSA and other infections
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April 23, 2024
The 2024 Alumni Awards
The College of Natural Science’s annual event honored its outstanding alumni, faculty and students.
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April 23, 2024
Where neutrons meet neutron stars
FRIB researchers lead effort to merge nuclear physics experiments and astronomical observations
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a diagram of DNA in mirror bacteriaDecember 19, 2024MSU researchers contribute to global team examining potential risks of 'mirror bacteria'
Federica Brandizzi sitting, holding a rolled-up paper. Flanked on either side by men in suits.December 18, 2024Among the stars: Brandizzi recognized for plant science impact
This image shows immunofluorescence staining of K14+ epithelial cells (red) and CD8+ cells (green)December 16, 2024Researchers determine that faulty immune cells make WHIM mice more prone to HPV

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