Many federal agencies are starting to require ORCID ID as the Persistent Identifier (PID) on some federal forms.

The Society for Women’s Health Research, or SWHR, announced it will present the "Women’s Health Visionary Award” to Teresa Woodruff, MSU Research Foundation Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.

John Furcean, Director of Research Technology and Compliance, received the 2024 IT Partner Award during a special presentation of the 2024 Excellence in IT Awards.

Charles (Chaz) Hong, MD, PhD, has been named a Michigan State University Research Foundation Professor in recognition of his decades of scientific research and clinical impact, including groundbreaking research focused on phosphoinositol-3-kinase and mitogen-activated kinase signaling in artery-vein specification.

Anil K. Jain has received the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies for core contributions to machine learning which have unlocked “applications of far-reaching impact on society as a whole.” He shares this award with Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley, for his contributions to predictive algorithms.

Grants.gov will be down this weekend for scheduled maintenance and upgrades.

University leadership is closely monitoring the recent announcement from HHS/NIH and evaluating any impact to the research enterprise at MSU. The pause in communications from HHS/NIH is scheduled through February 1, 2025.

At the 100th annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music held in Chicago in November 2024, James Forger, dean of the College of Music at Michigan State University, was elected by the membership as vice president and president-elect of the Association.

On Friday, January 31, 2025 at approximately 5:00 PM through Monday, February 3, 2025 at approximately 8:00 AM, the Click™ Research Compliance System IRB module will experience scheduled maintenance and be unavailable to users during this time.

On Jan. 13, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 5651, 5652 and 5653, sponsored by Reps. Alabas Farhat, Jason Hoskins and Greg VanWoerkom, which will create the Michigan Innovation Fund. This $60 million fund will provide critical funding to Michigan’s existing early-stage evergreen venture funds, emerging evergreen funds and the entrepreneur ecosystem.