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MSU Salutes Breakthroughs in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at 2025 Innovation Celebration
Michigan State University’s Innovation Center hosted the highly anticipated 2025 Innovation Celebration on April 1 at the Kellogg Center, honoring the trailblazers advancing research, entrepreneurship, and economic development in the region and beyond.

MSU’s Supercomputer Celebrates 20 Years of Accelerating Research
On February 26, 2025, ICER celebrated the 20th-anniversary of enabling researchers to accelerate their discoveries with MSU’s supercomputer. When its first supercomputer powered up in 2005, it was cutting-edge. Today, that throughput would be less than one PlayStation 5.
Four MSU Researchers Named 2024 AAAS Fellows
Nick Haddad, Laura McCabe, Gemma Reguera and Michael Thoennessen have been recognized as 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.

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