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Like a video game ghost chomping along a maze to advance to the next level, a novel nanotech therapy created by scientists at Michigan State University and Stanford University have discovered a way to eat away portions of the plaques that cause heart attacks.

Xuefei Huang will receive a William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award when Michigan State University hosts its annual Awards Convocation on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The 2020 convocation is set for 3:30 p.m. at the University Club in Lansing. Colleagues, family, and friends are welcome to attend the event.

Two from the College of Engineering -- Yadu Pokhrel and Erin Purcell -- will receive Teacher-Scholar Awards at Michigan State University's annual Awards Convocation on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The 2020 MSU Awards Convocation is set for 3:30 p.m. at the University Club in Lansing. Colleagues, family, and friends are welcome to attend the event.

Dirk Colbry's "side hustle" as a PhD student at MSU helped him develop into one of the country's "Sherpas of Supercomputing." Colbry is the director of high performance computing studies in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering.

Bryan Smith, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has created a noninvasive process to deliver chemotherapy treatments that could help doctors see how much of the drug is going directly to the tumor.

Michigan State University scientists have invented a new way to monitor chemotherapy concentrations, which is more effective in keeping patients' treatments within the crucial therapeutic window.

Honeywell CEO's best leadership advice: "Don't always follow the crowd." - The immigrant story of Spartan Engineer Darius Adamczyk is well known. Watch his conversation as he talks to Fortune about balancing professional and personal life goals.

MSU's Christopher Contag signed an agreement on an exchange of graduate students and held in-depth Q&A sessions on educational and research opportunities during a ceremony on June 5. Contag is the James and Kathleen Cornelius Endowed Chair; chair of Biomedical Engineering, and director of the Institute for Quantitative Health, Science & Engineering (IQ).

Joseph Salatino will make Michigan State University history when he graduates as MSU's first PhD in biomedical engineering during advanced degree ceremonies at 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 3, in the Breslin Center.