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New MSU Report on Michigan's Read by Grade Three Law

The Education Policy Innovation Collaborative and the Michigan Department of Education and the Center for Educational Performance and Information have been studying the outcomes of Michigan’s Read by Grade Three law.
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Transforming Drug Discovery with AI

A new AI-powered program will allow researchers to level up their drug discovery efforts.
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Insecticides Found to be Primary Driver of Butterfly Decline

Insecticide use is the single largest factor contributing to a decline in total butterfly abundance and species diversity in the Midwest, according to a newly released study.
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New FRIB Precision Measurement Program Advances Understanding of Proton Halos

Staff from FRIB’s Low Energy Beam and Ion Trap facility are taking a step in verifying the mass of aluminum-22 in order to observe a halo of protons orbiting the nucleus of the rare isotope.
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Changing the Persistent Legacy of Slavery in the Law

Professor Justin Simard and his students in the College of Law, have collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases in which judges and lawyers have cited these cases as precedent.
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If Food is Medicine, Data Helps Determine the Dosage

Heatherlun S. Uphold, assistant professor in the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, is trying to make public health information more accessible with the Health Equity Report Card.
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What Makes a Good Headline?

How can a news organization stand out as a reputable and trustworthy outlet while driving readers to its site?
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MSU ecologists review a century of statistical ecology

Postdoctoral researcher Neil Gilbert is the lead author on a new article in a special collection of the journal "Ecology" that reviews the past century of statistical ecology.
Announcements
Jain to Help India Update National ID (Aadhaar) Innovation Roadmap
Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor and the Douglas E. Zongker Endowed Professor of Engineering at Michigan State University, has joined a panel of experts for a strategic and technological upgrade of India’s digital identity platform.
Belin Joins MSU as the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies
A citizen of the Navajo Nation and an acclaimed poet, artist, and educator, Esther Belin joined Michigan State University this fall as the new Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Department of English. She is the second scholar to hold this position, following Gordon Henry, who retired in 2023 after serving as the inaugural Leslie Chair.
Basso Honored With Soil Science Research Award
Bruno Basso, a world-renowned expert in sustainable agriculture and precision agriculture systems, received the award Nov. 10 at the SSSA’s CANVAS conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Khalil Receives National ASME Medal for Lifetime Achievements
Hassan K. Khalil was presented the 2025 ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal — the highest honor presented by ASME in the field of automatic control — during the ASME Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference in October in Pittsburgh, Penn.
Chavez Named Interim Director of Julian Samora Research Institute
Manuel Chavez, a professor in Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, has been named interim director of the Julian Samora Research Institute, or JSRI, effective early September 2025.