MSU President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., and Interim Provost Thomas Jeitschko congratulated the newest Endowed Chairs, Endowed Professors and MSU Research Foundation Professors and Red Cedar Professors on Feb. 18, including six from the College of Engineering.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering Graduate Student Awards Ceremony and Graduate Research Symposium showcased nearly 200 students.

Compostable dog poop bags aren't as biodegradable as you might think, University Distinguished Professor Ramani Narayan tells Discover Magazine. Compostable dog poop bags aren't panning out. "Biodegradability is the most used and abused term," said Ramani Narayan. The word carries little regulatory oversight and leaves customers thinking their purchase has a smaller impact on the environment than it does. Story featured in Discover Magazine.

MSU researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory, complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue.

The winners of the 2019-20 Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Research and for the Outstanding Graduate Student awards in each academic program in the College of Engineering have been announced.

Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and a team of scientists have created a "Trojan Horse" nanoparticle that can be directed to eat debris, reducing and stabilizing plaque.

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.

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and its Engineering Deans Council announced 74 award recipients in its inaugural year of the ASEE Diversity Recognition Program.

Media offered memorial tributes to two faculty members in February

The MSUMobility exhibit at the 2019 North American International Auto Show AutoMobili-D demonstrated how MSU is transforming its 5,200-acre campus into a connected ecosystem for new mobility solutions. MSU and the University of Michigan shared a booth in Detroit's Cobo Center from Jan. 14-17.

Several important college leadership positions were established in 2018 -Yue Qi was chosen as Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity; Theo Caldwell was named Assistant Dean for Student Inclusion and Diversity; and Katy Colbry was appointed Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services. Tim Hinds took over as Director of the First-Year Engineering CoRe program; Kyle Foster was promoted to Director of the Diversity Programs Office (DPO); and MSU Foundation Professor Yunhao Liu was named Chairperson Designee of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Lawrence Drzal of Michigan State University has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Class of 2018.

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).

A two-story news package on research by Assaf Gilad, professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, and Galit Pelled, professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and neuroscience, is telling readers about ongoing work in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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The winter holidays are a time for both celebration and reflection. As 2017 draws to a close, we have much to celebrate and a tremendous future to look forward to in the College of Engineering. As always, our progress is only made possible by the tremendous support and dedication that each of you have shown throughout the past year. I am extremely thankful to you for all you do to move us forward.

If you haven't seen the video created to attract Amazon's HQ2 to Detroit/Michigan, take a look: #MoveTheWorld.

University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Anil Jain, and his research team, had a noteworthy September in the media. Reporters contacted MSU's international biometric expert on topics related to facial recognition, smartphone security, and other cyber security issues.

A monthly look at what is being reported on the MSU Engineering community.

May's media highlights for the Michigan State University College of Engineering include the naming of a new department head, and ongoing national coverage on biometrics expert Anil Jain, a University Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering.