Research at Michigan State UniversityThe Universe in a Box: Modeling Cosmological Structure Formation
Friday, September 27, 2013
Brian O’Shea Associate Professor Lyman Briggs College Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University
Physical Science & Engineering
Probing Dark Matter, Distant Galaxies
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Megan Donahue, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has taken a sneak peek at the distant, early universe and its newborn galaxies, and at the same time she…
MSU Research History: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Monday, December 22, 2008
2008 – The U.S. Department of Energy selects Michigan State University to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a $730 million facility that will advance understanding…
MSU Research History: Advances in Biometric Systems
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
2008 – Anil Jain, Michigan State University Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, creates an automatic image retrieval system that enables law enforcement agencies to match scars, marks…
MSU Research History: Neck Brace to Save Race Car Drivers
Tuesday, January 27, 1987
1987 – Professor of materials science and mechanics Robert Hubbard patents a safety device known as the Head and Neck Support device, or HANS, which he developed with race car…
MSU Research History: Campus Fire Spawns Structural Engineering Program
Sunday, March 5, 1916
1916 – On Sunday, March 5, 1916, a fire quickly spread through the empty engineering building at the Michigan Agricultural College, now MSU, after reportedly beginning in the southeast…
MSU Research History: Weather Reports, Pre-Weather Bureau
Thursday, January 1, 1863
1863 – Robert C. Kedzie, M.D., begins making and recording weather observations, eight years before the U.S. Government established the Weather Bureau. Kedzie also demonstrates through his experiments that…
