Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Early CAREER Award will help researchers tap goldmine of hidden data.

Thomas O’Halloran has been appointed as an MSU Foundation Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and Chemistry.

A multi-institution research team has earned more than $12 million total from the National Institute for Mental Health, or NIMH, to fund a multi-site clinical trial examining effective early intervention methods for toddlers with or at-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.

College of Human Medicine researchers have received a National Institutes of Health grant to study the connection between a gene important for normal cell survival and endometriosis, a painful disease which affects one in 10 women of reproductive age.

Gemma Reguera, Michigan State University environmental microbiologist, was named editor-in-chief of “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”, one of two new editors for two of the 16 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Society of Microbiology. Reguera will begin her term on July 1.

MSU ranks ninth globally in the amount of research published related to environmental antimicrobial resistance.

Alison Bernstein, a College of Human Medicine assistant professor of Translational Neuroscience, has received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Elena Litchman, professor of aquatic ecology at Michigan State University, is the recipient of the 2021 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).

Michigan State University’s Beronda Montgomery, an MSU Foundation Professor, was one of five individuals nominated by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) as a 2020 Science Defender.