Announcements

A research team led by Michigan State University soil scientist Bruno Basso has received a $1.95 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant to develop and disseminate educational information on soil organic carbon evaluation.

Leading researchers from around the state to met to discuss public health and wastewater surveillance, including opportunities, challenges, and the need for partnerships for action and engagement.

Two faculty in MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences were named Fellows of the International Communication Association (ICA), one of the top honors in the field of communication.

Michigan State University microbial ecologist James Tiedje joins the 2023 elite cohort of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This year, the Academy elected 269 people across the arts and sciences.

The National Virtual Climate Laboratory (NVCL), a comprehensive web portal for climate science projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, is now available.

The MSU Bioinformatics Core is a collaboration among bioinformatics consultants from the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER), the Research Technology Support Facility (RTSF), and the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC).

Michigan State University has reached a milestone for research and development expenditures, with $759 million for fiscal year 2022. The total is a $49 million increase over 2021 and demonstrates strong progress toward the strategic plan goal of $1 billion in research expenditures by 2030.

The University has negotiated a new Facilities & Administrative (F&A) rate agreement which goes into effect July 1, 2023 until June 30, 2027.

Associate Professor David Ferguson is the first ever to receive an exercise physiology-related grant from NASCAR. The grant, awarded in January 2023, is expected to address the growing concerns of heat exhaustion a race car driver may experience during competition.

A research team led by Jiayu Zhou, associate professor of computer science and engineering at MSU, has won recognition in an international competition focused on privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) that bolster democracy.