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Almost 250,000 alumni and friends brought Michigan State University to a significant milestone: surging past the fundraising goal of $1.5 billion more than a year before the Empower Extraordinary campaign closed. While MSU is still accepting campaign gifts until Dec. 31, 2018, the campaign total currently sits at an extraordinary $1.7 billion.

Embracing the future of teaching and learning, Michigan State University has officially broken ground on the new STEM Teaching and Learning Facility. During the groundbreaking ceremony, MSU Interim President John Engler was joined by faculty, students and staff representing STEM-related colleges as well as members of the Michigan Legislature who supported funding for the project.

The second cohort of SEE Scholars -- engineering students at Michigan State University who were awarded scholarships from the Supporting Excellent Engineers (SEE) program -- was greeted during a reception in the College of Engineering on Aug. 28.

In an era when attracting women and minorities into STEM fields is an uphill battle, the Michigan State University College of Engineering will welcome its largest and most diverse group of undergraduate students ever this fall.

Despite concerns that a rise in automated vehicles, or AVs, will displace significant numbers of truck drivers in the United States, only a modest number of truck driver jobs, if any, will be affected, according to a new report commissioned by the American Center for Mobility (ACM), led by Michigan State University and supported by Texas A&M Transportation Institute.

See-through solar cells could power offices. Richard Lunt, a chemical engineering associate professor from MSU, reports that glass that darkens on-demand could reduce a building's need for air conditioning.

Katy Luchini Colbry has been selected as the assistant dean for Graduate Student Services in the MSU College of Engineering. She has been involved for the past eight years in every major aspect of the graduate studies program in collaboration with Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Development Manooch Koochesfahani. In her new role, she will work on graduate student recruiting, mentoring, and fostering an environment to grow graduate student resources and fellowship opportunities, along with other day-to-day aspects of growing the graduate program of the college.

Yue Qi has been named the first associate dean for inclusion and diversity (ADID) in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University.