Judith Stoddart serves as vice provost for University Arts and Collections. In this role, Dr. Stoddart is responsible for supporting those units across campus that hold significant cultural and intellectual collections that serve the research, scholarship, and outreach missions of the University, including the Beal Botanical Garden, MSU Broad Art Museum, MSU Museum, and the Wharton Center. She also serves as the coordinator for the comprehensive, campus-wide arts strategy which was showcased to the MSU Board of Trustees on September 8, 2023.

Newly published research from Michigan State University scientists demonstrates how regionally specific machine learning-based modeling more effectively monitors levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals in Michigan drinking water compared to nationwide models.

New research indicating that plants' ability to absorb carbon dioxide may have stalled, suggesting that perhaps we shouldn't put all our climate mitigation hopes in too many plant-based strategies either, at least for the time being.

The Tetrad Initiative is designed to foster new cross-unit and cross-college collaborations among faculty who have not worked together before, resulting in projects that create opportunities for extramural support of unique research programs.

Seung Yon (Sue) Rhee, Director of the Plant Resilience Institute, is researching the processes underpinning plant metabolism and how the process relates to other areas of plant biology.

David MacFarlane of the MSU Department of Forestry was invited with a group of entomologists in February 2020 to visit the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to help examine declining bee populations in a changing forest landscape.

Robert Quinn and Christoph Benning from the College of Natural Science collaborate on coral bleaching, a heat-induced response to stress where the coral ejects the algae in its tissues causing it to turn white.

Irving E. Vega is a Red Cedar Distinguished Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms that modulate the accumulation of pathological tau proteins in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Dr. Vega is also working on health disparities and the influence of ethnoracial factors on blood biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease.

Rita Strakovsky, an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, has devoted her career to studying how chemical exposure affects mothers and their developing babies.

To support the academic community, the Office of Research and Innovation is thrilled to offer BioRender at the subsidized rate of $100 per year, providing faculty and students with an affordable solution to create stunning, publication-quality graphics that effectively convey complex scientific concepts.