Teresa K. Woodruff joined an elite group of Americans who have received two national medals of honor when President Joe Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science on Jan. 3.

Michigan State University Distinguished Professor and MSU Research Foundation Professor, Federica Brandizzi was awarded the Professor Luigi Tartufari Prize by the Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei in November. The ceremony was held in Rome, Italy at the historic Palazzo Corsini on Nov. 7.

Muhammad Rabnawaz, associate professor in Michigan State University’s School of Packaging, has been elected into the 2024 Class of Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors, a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities.

Projects by College of Arts & Letters faculty, ranging from a linguistic course, to traveling exhibitions, to books on a range of subjects, received support this year from Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Development or Production Awards. Funding for these HARP Grants is provided, in part, through the Michigan State University Research Foundation.

Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences has named the award recipients of the 2024 Cancer Seed Funding Program. Building on the success of the 2022 and 2023 cancer research pilot and integration award funding initiatives, this year the program awarded 14 new cancer research awards totaling $700,000.

Craig Carpenter, an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, has been given the 2024 Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Award by the North American Regional Science Council.

Four researchers and professors from Michigan State University have been recognized in the “2024 Highly Cited Researchers” list, a ranking organized annually by Clarivate Analytics.

Three researchers in the MSU College of Engineering have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, program awards and will advance their research efforts with a combined $1.7 million over the next five years.

For the seventh consecutive year, the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Michigan State University has been recognized as a national leader in entrepreneurship education in the United States. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked MSU No. 4 in the Midwest and No. 11 in the U.S., up from No. 13.

Three Michigan State University College of Nursing faculty members, Dawn Goldstein, Kathleen Poindexter and Courtney Sullivan, are among those in the new class of fellows in the American Academy of Nursing, or AAN. The honor is among the highest a nursing educator can receive.