Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor and the Douglas E. Zongker Endowed Professor of Engineering at Michigan State University, has joined a panel of experts for a strategic and technological upgrade of India’s digital identity platform.

A citizen of the Navajo Nation and an acclaimed poet, artist, and educator, Esther Belin joined Michigan State University this fall as the new Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Department of English. She is the second scholar to hold this position, following Gordon Henry, who retired in 2023 after serving as the inaugural Leslie Chair.

Hassan K. Khalil was presented the 2025 ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal — the highest honor presented by ASME in the field of automatic control — during the ASME Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference in October in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Bruno Basso, a world-renowned expert in sustainable agriculture and precision agriculture systems, received the award Nov. 10 at the SSSA’s CANVAS conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Manuel Chavez, a professor in Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, has been named interim director of the Julian Samora Research Institute, or JSRI, effective early September 2025.

Elan Pochedley was awarded the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) long-term faculty fellowship to research how Indigenous peoples’ expressions of environmental stewardship and governance have been practiced, sustained, interrupted, and/or rekindled throughout the central and western Great Lakes region.

Twenty-four scholars from the Michigan State University College of Education were among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2024, according to Stanford University.

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) has named the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine as an official Fellowship Training Center in the area of small animal orthopedics minimally invasive surgery.

Two MSU College of Education faculty members have been named Fellows of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), joining the inaugural class of honorees: University Distinguished Professors Ann E. Austin and Kristen A. Renn. Learn how their leadership continues to shape the field of higher education.

Michigan State University journalism professor Lucinda D. Davenport, Ph.D., was recognized with the national McGuffey Award by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association for her co-authored Writing & Reporting for the Media textbook, 13th edition (copyright 2023), nominated by Oxford University Press.