A team of Michigan State University scientists has received more than $590,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study resistance to tar spot, a devastating corn disease.
The program is an important initial funding mechanism to support promising new initiatives in key areas of research, scholarship, and multidisciplinary collaboration in response to the global climate crisis.
The University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute, Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, and the URI Science and Story Lab have launched a fellowship program designed to prepare the next generation of science communicators from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Maryam Naghibolhosseini, Ph.D., recently received a R21 Early Career Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) for her research in structural vocal pathologies.
Bradley P. Marks, P.E., of Michigan State University has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for his leadership and professional distinctions in food safety engineering.
Jianping Hu has received a 4-year, $900,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the motility of cellular energy organelles, peroxisomes and mitochondria in particular, along the cytoskeleton in the common mustard plant.
Cheryl Sisk, a Michigan State University professor of behavioral neuroscience and psychology, is recipient of the 2022 Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) for her outstanding career as a researcher and educator.
Jonathan Choti, an African-born scholar and assistant professor of African languages and cultures at Michigan State University, will engage with counterparts in Kenya this summer as part of the 2022 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
