In December 2021, the team received the exciting notification of a five-year, $13.5 million program project grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study Perivascular Adipose Tissue (PVAT) as a Central Integrator of Vascular Health.

A record-tying nine MSU researchers have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

President Joe Biden has appointed Michigan State University (MSU) economist Dr. Saweda Liverpool-Tasie to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD).  BIFAD advises the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on agriculture and higher education issues pertinent to food insecurity. Along with other BIFAD board members, Dr. Liverpool-Tasie will play a key role in shaping our nation’s perspectives on international food and agriculture.

Film Studies and 20th-Century Literature in MSU’s Department of English, has won the Popular Culture Association’s (PCA) Presidential Award.

Michigan State University economist and professor Lisa D. Cook today was nominated by President Joe Biden to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. If confirmed, Cook will be the first Black woman to serve on the board in its 108-year history.

Two Michigan State University graduate students recently won the inaugural awards from the NEOGEN Land Grant Prize in a competitive selection process. Each student was awarded $30,000 to advance their research projects: one focusing on drug discovery and the other on the economics of climate change.

Michigan State University economist Lisa D. Cook has been elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Beronda Montgomery will be joining Grinnell College as the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, beginning July 1, 2022

George W. Smith has been named the director of MSU AgBioResearch and senior associate dean for research for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, effective immediately.

This Spartan seismologist wants to understand Earth’s tectonic plate activity specifically at subduction zones where earthquake and volcanic activity occurs.