BME News

Two staff members in the Michigan State University College of Engineering will be honored for their "extraordinary impact" and "dedicated and creative service" with the presentation of the Spartans Will Award and Gloria Stragier Award during the 2022 Engineering Awards banquet on Monday, March 21, at the University Club.

Students in the MSU College of Engineering have again nominated their favorite faculty members for the highly prized annual Withrow Teaching Excellence Awards. The teaching distinction is for distinguished service to the university and the student body.

The Women in Engineering (WIE) program at the Michigan State University College of Engineering provides resources, services, and a positive environment to enable the success of women engineering students in their academic and professional pursuits.

Adam Alessio will lead the Michigan State University Department of Biomedical Engineering as interim chair and former BME Chair Christopher Contag will now focus his attention on growth strategies in the College of Engineering, Dean Leo Kempel has announced.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering recently added six new tenure-system faculty members to its growing list of academic experts. One new assistant professor focuses on trustworthy artificial intelligence while another studies electronics in extreme environments, plus another examines diamond nanofabrication techniques.

For Michigan State University researchers Assaf Gilad and Wolfgang Banzhaf, their chemistry transcends the boundaries of science. The duo is developing molecules inspired by nature to help medical diagnostics such as MRI scans keep pace with emerging therapies that can treat diseases more precisely while improving patient safety.

The Michigan State University researchers who created the first miniature human heart model with primary heart cell types, vascular tissue and a functioning structure of chambers have taken another step forward: developing new therapies for congenital heart disease.

Eighteen incoming students have been awarded scholarships to cover full tuition, room and board and a stipend for up to eight semesters of undergraduate study at Michigan State University.