Five Michigan State University College of Natural Science (NatSci) faculty members are among nine MSU scientists receiving 2022 awards from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), two of whom are being named ASPB Fellows.

Michigan State University economist and professor Lisa D. Cook today was confirmed by the Senate Banking Committee to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Cook is the first Black woman to serve on the board in its 108-year history.

Hairong Li, a professor of advertising, faculty associate of the Center for Business and Social Analytics, and core faculty of the Asian Studies Center, was selected for the prestigious national award in spring of 2022.

Mohammad Maghrebi and Johannes Pollanen have received 2022 NSF Early CAREER Faculty Awards. Their cutting-edge research is pushing the limits of theoretical and experimental quantum science, while their devotion to education is preparing the next generation of scientists to propel their field even further.

Michigan State University mathematician Keith Promislow was named a 2022 SIAM Fellow for his contributions to rigorous asymptotic reductions, development of novel models and their applications, and service to the applied mathematics community by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Michigan State University Professor William H. Schmidt is the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award presented by the American Educational Research Association, or AERA. It is the premier award for outstanding achievement and success in education research.

Jasmine Jordan, a 2021 graduate from the College of Social Science, has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar for the second time. In fall 2022, she will begin a doctorate in criminology at the University of Cambridge.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $399,865 Campus Cyberinfrastructure grant to utilize the campus HPCC facilitated by the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER).

Andrea Hernando, a second-year graduate student in Spanish as a Second or Bilingual Language at Michigan State University, recently won the 2022 Best Abstract in Linguistics Award at the Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium at Georgetown University.

Michigan State University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — one of the country’s leading and most historic honorary societies.