The U.S. Department of State has selected Deric McNish, associate professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Theatre, for a four-month English Language Specialist project in Russia, Estonia, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania
Keith Hampton, Ph.D. has been selected as this year’s recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in the area of Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology (CITAMS).
A research collaboration by MSU professor of psychology Robin Lin Miller, entitled “Advocacy and Other Tactics to Challenge Barriers to HIV Care for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women (Project Act),” has been selected as an Exemplary Project of 2022 by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Awards program.
The American Law Institute elected MSU College of Law Professor Catherine Grosso as a new member in July, recognizing her scholarship in the role of race and other extralegal factors in criminal investigations, trials and the administration of capital punishment.
Jae Puckett received the 2022 Transgender Research Award from the Society of Sexual Orientation, Division 44 of the American Psychological Association.
Aman Yadav, known for his research and outreach on computer science education and computational thinking, has been named Lappan-Phillips Professor of Computing Education at MSU.
Jeffrey Nanzer will advance mobile millimeter wave networks as a Google Research Scholar, a select effort by Google to fund world-class research conducted by early career professors.