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The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognized demonstrated excellence and distinguished contributions during the 29th Annual Engineering Awards Luncheon in the Kellogg Center on Friday, March 15. Seven Withrow Teaching Excellence Awards were presented during the annual spring ceremony.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognized demonstrated excellence and distinguished contributions during the 29th Annual Engineering Awards Luncheon in the Kellogg Center on Friday, March 15. Fifteen faculty and staff members received some of the college's most prestigious awards.

The future of self-driving vehicles may be drizzling out - at least in Michigan, CANVAS Director and ECE professor Hayder Radha tells the industry-leading publication, Automotive News. "When we run these algorithms, we see very noticeable, tangible degradation in detection," Radha said.

The Institute of Quantitative Health Science and Engineering at Michigan State University will be hosting a symposium entitled, "Oncogenomic Tenets of Precision Oncology" on Nov. 12-13.

The race is on to create cheap materials to store energy for the U.S power grid, said Mechanical Engineering Department Chair James Klausner. MSU is sharing a $2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). "We think we can return electricity to the grid at less than 5 cents per kilowatt hour," he said.

Researchers from Michigan State University and Stanford University have created a computer simulation, validated by experimental results, to help design drug-delivery nanoparticles that carry cancer-fighting medicines directly to tumors, while minimizing the potential side-effects on healthy cells.

Imagine being able to learn the likelihood of your unborn child someday developing a disease such as cancer, heart disease or diabetes. And what if, in addition to arming you with that information, doctors were able to repair the defective genes that are the root cause of the disease?