Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira, a member of MSU's Global Impact Initiative faculty, is opening her own lab to study promising new therapies that hunt down cancer cells and kill them with radioactive isotopes.

Michigan State University recently announced it will receive a $5 million grant from the MSU Research Foundation to advance its world-class program in the plant sciences and critical research in the mitigation of and adaptation to global climate change.

As a member of the Boyer 2030 Commission, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University, participated in the development of a national blueprint for undergraduate education at U.S. research universities.

Professors Edward Murphy and David Wheat have each received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support their ongoing research in Latin American history.

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program at Michigan State University recently received a renewal of its foundational grant from the National Science Foundation, reaffirming its future and status as one of the country’s premier research sites.

Felicia Wu, a John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and an international expert on food safety at Michigan State University has been appointed president-elect of the Society for Risk Analysis.

Karthik Durvasula, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, is delving further into “wordlikeness judgments” through a new research project supported by a $480,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

On November 15, the American Communities Project (ACP) received $2.4 million in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation towards their new project, “Analyzing American economic and demographic fragmentation at the community level.”

Michigan State University’s Axia Institute is pleased to announce that it will be moving to the MSU St. Andrews research facility at 1910 W. St Andrews Rd, in Midland from its offices in Midland’s East End building at the end of 2022.

Sue Rhee will officially join MSU in July 2023 to lead the Plant Resilience Institute, or PRI, which launched in 2016 as part of MSU’s Global Impact Initiative to recruit top faculty to accelerate discovery around grand challenges.