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.
ASEE Prism Magazine
Scientific breakthroughs don't always happen in labs. For MSU researchers Sophia and Richard Lunt, many of their breakthroughs happen during neighborhood walks. The married couple's step-by-step approach has revealed a new way to detect and attack cancer cells using technology traditionally reserved for solar power. Both are part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science.
Asia News International
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EIN Technology Today (Tehran)
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Knowridge Science Report (Australia)
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Nature: Scientific Reports
News Brick (India)
Science Daily
Siasat Daily (India)
Technology Networks
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Ramani Narayan, University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, is an international expert and often warns that 50 percent of the materials going into our landfills are organic waste -- eventually converted to methane, which has 28 times as large an impact on global warming as CO2.
Martha Stewart Living
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Yahoo! LifeStyle
MSU Executive Vice President Satish Udpa resigned from his administrative position to return to laboratory and research work in the College of Engineering. Udpa is a University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Detroit News
Lansing State Journal
MSUToday
WILX TV 10 Lansing
University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Anil Jain joined the board of trustees at the first graduate-level research-based artificial intelligence university in the world. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi will give graduate students, businesses, and governments the ability to access advanced AI systems across the world. The university will offer master's and PhD programs across three specialized fields: machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing.
Business Chief Middle East
UAE Gulf News
Dr. Anil Jain is one of the most quoted experts at MSU. Here are recent samples:
• UNICEF has released two documents outlining guidelines for the secure, efficient, and transparent use of children's biometrics.
• Do Tech Companies Watch Your Home Security Camera Footage?
Consumer Reports
• There are multiple ways to fool fingerprint readers.
Slate
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has joined with Grand Rapids Public Schools in responding to the need for coding skills in West Michigan. MSU Engineering showcased MicroBits Coding at a conference on Oct. 25-26 in Grand Rapids to engage students in coding, programming, app and website development, and 3-D printing.
MLive Grand Rapids
MSU transportation expert Peter Savolainen discussed Teen Driver Safety Week, Oct. 20-26. He is the MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
MSUToday
WKZO Radio Kalamazoo
WWMT TV 3 West Michigan
Kyle Liechty, co-op and internship coordinator in the Engineering Career Center, and electrical engineering junior Danny Dodge explained the advantages of internships and co-op experiences during an interview on the Bart Hawley Show on JTV in Jackson, Michigan.
JTV Jackson
W8MSU/W8SH in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, celebrated 100 years of amateur radio at MSU with a special event on Oct. 19.
The National Association for Amateur Radio
The tradition of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science's competitive success at the annual American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AlChE) Student Design Contest hit a new height this year. For the first time, all of MSU's submitted problem solutions won national awards. AlChE is the global organization for chemical engineers, said R. Mark Worden, professor of chemical engineering.
MSUToday
Students
Object detection studies by an electrical engineering student have earned him a prestigious Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics. Jorge Mateus, a senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is one of four undergraduate researchers from around the world to receive the honor from the Acoustical Society of America.
MSUToday
The Lansing Maker Network is a workspace in which people can experiment with woodshop, programming, metalwork, and more. Rhett Pimental, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, are among those using the space to develop their skills.
WILX TV 10 Lansing video
Alumni
Paul Szlaga ('07, biosystems engineering) and his wife, Rachel, debuted their three-year entrepreneurial project on Oct. 24 when they opened Brewery Faisan in Detroit's Islandview neighborhood. Their microbrewery and tasting room is located at 1087 Beaufait Street and features Belgian and American craft beers.
Deadline Detroit
Penny Wirsing ('83, civil engineering) bids her one-year presidency of the 40,000-member Society of Women Engineers good-bye during ceremonies in Minnesota.
SWE
Eman El-Sheikh has been named to the Florida Cybersecurity Task Force. She received two degrees in computer science from MSU (MS '95, PhD '01) and currently is the director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.
Florida Daily
MSU Pride Points
• Oct. 11: Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his research team have invented a new way to monitor chemotherapy concentrations and help keep patients' treatments within the crucial therapeutic window.
• Oct. 16: Daria Tarasova ('17) is among 100 (out of 13,000) to win a $22,000 Cyber-Fasttrack Scholarship to help launch a career in cybersecurity. She is a master's student in computer science and part of the CSE Security Research Group in the College of Engineering.
• Oct. 31: One of the country's oldest university amateur radio clubs - W8MSU/W8SH is celebrating a century of wireless technology in MSU Engineering this fall.