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May 1, 2024
Elias Aydi shares the story of a star explosion that will soon light up the night sky
April 29, 2024
“Dr. Long is a motivator, mentor and inspiration"
April 24, 2024
MSU, Harvard Medical School team up to expand vaccine science’s role in the fight against MRSA and other infections
April 24, 2024
MSU researchers have made an evolutionary biology breakthrough
April 23, 2024
FRIB researchers lead effort to merge nuclear physics experiments and astronomical observations
April 23, 2024
The College of Natural Science’s annual event honored its outstanding alumni, faculty and students.
April 19, 2024
The College of Natural Science has three newly minted Red Cedar Distinguished Professors
April 18, 2024
Zhang joins as the chair of the Department of Statistics and Probability
April 10, 2024
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.
April 5, 2024
Cheryl Kerfeld was a panelist at an event in Washington, DC commemorating US innovation at the nanoscale.
April 2, 2024
Dave Dvorak's dedication to the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station helps this sanctuary for environmental research flourish and grow.
April 1, 2024
Spartan researchers join a nationwide team to create a new way to design cell-sized microfactories that could help make medicines, biofuels and more.
April 1, 2024
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.
March 28, 2024
Researchers from MSU and UC Riverside have shown that viral diseases from farmland have spread to native habitats.
March 28, 2024
Spartan researchers show deep biogeographic divides drive divergent evolutionary paths
March 28, 2024
McGraw is the new chair of the Department of Integrative Biology, bringing “new dimensions of scholarship and leadership” to the university.
March 27, 2024
Xuefei Huang is helping enable research into new potential therapies for cancer, brain disease, autoimmune disorders and more.
March 25, 2024
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.
March 21, 2024
Classes Without Quizzes is an experience unlike any other where faculty will share an insider’s look at innovative research on environmental sustainability.
March 18, 2024
Spartan scientists are working to better understand and protect this resource that connects us all.
March 18, 2024
Maeve McLaughlin was one of 24 co-authors who published a commentary in the journal Cell.
March 14, 2024
An MSU astronomer shares what you need to know for this and other out-of-this-world events on the horizon.
March 11, 2024
A new study from MSU shows how soil microbes near the Centralia mine fire could provide clues to help alleviate effects of climate change.
March 6, 2024
The award is DOE's highest form of employee recognition for achievement.
February 26, 2024
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.
February 21, 2024
MSU research "has the potential to affect every single bag of potato chips around the world.”
February 16, 2024
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
February 15, 2024
Spartans lead an international team in making new nuclei and paving the way to new discoveries
February 9, 2024
Nobel Prize-winner Professor David MacMillan took part in MSU’s fall commencement festivities as well as several community and received an honorary Doctor of Science.
February 9, 2024
Kathryn Westby, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Program in Mathematics Education, received an Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from Michigan State University.
February 8, 2024
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.
February 7, 2024
A recent publication in Metabolic Engineering authored by MSU researchers looks at how cyanobacteria balance cellular energy between “source and sink,” which may have downstream applications in bioproduction.
January 30, 2024
With a team of researchers from Spain, France, and Harvard, researcher Richard Lenski and colleagues used high-throughput genomic methods to analyze the fitness effects of hundreds of thousands of mutations in the E. coli bacteria, and how those effects changed over time as the experiment proceeded.
January 29, 2024
The MSU Distinguished Student Awards Office has nominated four students for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
January 26, 2024
Empowered by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) is spearheading a multi-institutional project to construct a next-generation fast-neutron detector unlike any other in the world.
January 24, 2024
Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, an assistant professor in the College of Natural Science, has received a five-year National Institutes of Health grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences totaling $1.9 million to support her research studying the bacteria animals like squid and newts use to protect themselves. This research could provide insights into how humans maintain beneficial bacteria in their gut.