Announcements
Yadav Named Lappan-Phillips Professor of Computing Education
Aman Yadav, known for his research and outreach on computer science education and computational thinking, has been named Lappan-Phillips Professor of Computing Education at MSU.
Nanzer Named Google Research Scholar
Jeffrey Nanzer will advance mobile millimeter wave networks as a Google Research Scholar, a select effort by Google to fund world-class research conducted by early career professors.
American Cancer Society Grants Available
Multiple American Cancer Society grants are now available to apply for.
MSU Research Team Receives $590K USDA Grant for Corn Tar Spot Resistance Research
A team of Michigan State University scientists has received more than $590,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study resistance to tar spot, a devastating corn disease.
Fang Named a Global Leading Innovator Under 35
Chengcheng Fang has been named a 2022 Innovator Under 35 by the science and technology magazine MIT Technology Review.
Climate Change Research Support Program Accepting Proposals
The program is an important initial funding mechanism to support promising new initiatives in key areas of research, scholarship, and multidisciplinary collaboration in response to the global climate crisis.
SciComm Identities Project Fellowship Applications Open
The University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute, Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, and the URI Science and Story Lab have launched a fellowship program designed to prepare the next generation of science communicators from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Naghibolhosseini Receives Second Career Award from National Institutes of Health
Maryam Naghibolhosseini, Ph.D., recently received a R21 Early Career Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) for her research in structural vocal pathologies.
Marks Honored for Distinctions in Food Safety Engineering
Bradley P. Marks, P.E., of Michigan State University has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for his leadership and professional distinctions in food safety engineering.
Hu Receives NSF Grant for Work on Plant Growth and Reproduction
Jianping Hu has received a 4-year, $900,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the motility of cellular energy organelles, peroxisomes and mitochondria in particular, along the cytoskeleton in the common mustard plant.