As a top global public research university, Michigan State University is built to pursue bold, practical solutions to complicated challenges. From fighting cancer on multiple fronts to developing more sustainable packaging to safeguarding food and water, here are 10 research projects Spartans are working on that could change the future.

.Two from the College of Engineering are among the 10 Michigan State University faculty who have been named University Distinguished Professors.

Four faculty members and a group of community partners in the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Engineering received MSU’s highest honors during the 2024-2025 All-University Awards on April 7. One College of Engineering staff member and one alumnus were also celebrated for receiving International Awards, which will be presented on April 17.

Spartans are natural innovators. They push the limits of discovery and create solutions that benefit all of us. In fact, Michigan State University is ranked in the top 50 of the National Academy of Inventors’ list of top U.S. universities granted utility patents and has been a top 100 university globally for 11 consecutive years.

Xinpeng Zhao, 32, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named to the 2024 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35. The magazine chose Zhao for inventing “a glass-based coating that can cool the roof of a building by around 3.5 °C below ambient air temperature, which could reduce air-conditioning energy use by nearly 10% for a mid-rise building.”

The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognizes 19 faculty and staff members with awards for their excellence in service and distinguished contributions.

Michigan State University researchers Evangelyn Alocilja, Richard Lunt and André Bachmann have been named Senior Members by the National Academy of Inventors. This year’s class of NAI Senior Members is the largest to date and hails from 60 NAI member institutions across the nation.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering recognizes 19 faculty and staff members with awards for their excellence in service and distinguished contributions. Faculty and staff members are nominated each year by their colleagues, industry peers and students for the most prestigious honors the college offers.

Michigan State University’s Chengcheng Fang has been named a 2022 Innovator Under 35 by the science and technology magazine MIT Technology Review. The magazine selected Fang for its list of “outstanding innovators who are younger than 35” because of her research’s potential to make batteries for electric vehicles run safer and last longer.

Richard Lunt, who is a national leader in solar technologies, will receive the 2022 Michigan State University Tech Transfer Achievement Award during the MSU Innovation Celebration on Monday, April 18.

As the planet experiences the effects of climate change, questions arise about the future of our planet and daily life in general. Many of the major challenges related to a changing climate and their impact on society have Michigan State University Spartans working on solutions.

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.

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.

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. Adamczyk earned two degrees - electrical engineering and computer engineering -- in 1988 from MSU.

The College of Engineering is well represented in a paid promotion in the New York Times, created by MSU's Communications and Brand Strategy.

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.

MSU's plans to construct a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics facility in its 1940s power plant got national media notice, including ASEE FIRST Bell. MSU is spending nearly $100 million to renovate the former Shaw Lane power plant.

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.

Engineers have been working for years to develop a more convenient way to monitor blood pressure. Now, researchers at MSU and the University of Maryland appear to have succeeded.

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