Student Research Highlights

Three Michigan State University graduate students earned a competitive U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science research award, gaining access to national labs. Their work advances energy, physics and sustainability innovation.

Two Michigan State University students earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation scholarship, recognizing their achievements and potential in STEM research.

Three Michigan State University graduate students earned a competitive U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science award, gaining access to top national labs. Their research advances energy, physics and sustainability.

Green New DEAL paired Residential College in the Arts and Humanities students with Detroit high schoolers for an exploration of ecology through the lens of science and the arts.

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University researchers now have evidence of the surprisingly simple process that may be responsible for their creation.

Ty Mitchell, a student in the College’s Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology Program (CMIB), has earned a spot in the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for his work as a PhD student researcher in the Mast Cell Nexus and Gastrointestinal Stress Biology Laboratory, led by Dr. Adam J. Moeser, Matilda Wilson Endowed Chair.

Deepika Davuluri, a graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Katharina Domnanich, has received the College of Natural Science's Alfred J. and Ruth Zeits Endowed Fellowship. This endowment supports work in nuclear and laser science research, and particularly students whose research interests are targeting cancer.

On Friday, April 11, the 27th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum was held at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center. UURAF provides hundreds of Michigan State University students the opportunity to present their completed or in-progress research to faculty, staff and external audiences.

In a collaboration between arts and sciences at Michigan State University, the Department of Theatre presented six immersive outdoor theatrical performances of “The Grown-Ups,” set around a campfire at the Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center.

Veona Cutinho is a senior majoring in genomics and molecular genetics with a minor in mathematics at Michigan State University. She works in the Cellular Reprogramming Lab under Dr. Jose Cibelliand is the founder and editor-in-chief of SPARC, MSU’s first undergraduate-led academic journal.

Five Michigan State University students have earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a university record for a single cohort of the award. This places MSU at 60 Goldwater Scholars since the award’s inception.

The Goldwater Foundation seeks sophomores and juniors committed to a research career in STEM fields with the potential for significant future contribution in their chosen field. The award provides $7,500 per year in funding for undergraduate tuition and living expenses.

Nicole Koyuki Golden, Ph.D. student in Writing and Rhetoric and Graduate Assistant Director of The Writing Center at Michigan State University, was awarded the International Writing Centers Association Future Leaders Scholarship in recognition of her significant contributions to the writing center community and her potential as a leader in the field of writing studies.