Research News

Nelson Sepúlveda has been named interim chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) beginning July 1, 2024.

Wastewater surveillance hit the big time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when officials started using this technique to monitor local virus levels.

Katy Foss has a broader outlook these days on how to achieve sustainability. She graduated from Michigan State University in April 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering and a minor in sustainable agriculture and food systems. While in the classroom, she learned the technicalities of her major and the bigger lesson of valuing distinct viewpoints.

The environmental virology lab work being done by Irene Xagoraraki at Michigan State University is currently featured in the national news source, The Conversation. The professor of civil and environmental engineering explores why monitoring local virus levels helps officials make public health decisions.

Debajit Saha and his team set out to determine if honeybees could distinguish a difference in the chemicals in human breath from someone who was healthy compared to someone with lung cancer.

In the U.S., oral cancer makes up 3% of all cancers and there are about 54,000 new cases diagnosed each year, according to the National Institutes of Health’s dental and craniofacial research. Since oral cancer can spread quickly, early diagnosis is important. 

Teancum Piekkola is a junior at Michigan State University from Mountain View, Wyoming, studying materials science and engineering with a concentration in polymeric engineering and a minor in energy. This summer, along with nine other Spartans, he is a student researcher at the IMDEA Materials Institute  in Madrid, Spain, as part of an annual collaboration between the institute and MSU.

Three Michigan State University researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) have won a prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Michigan State University College of Engineering Graduate Student Awards Ceremony and Graduate Research Symposium showcased nearly 200 students. The annual events, created by the college in 2012, give participants ranging from first-year graduates to those nearing completion of their Ph.D. the opportunity to share their work and network with faculty, staff and industry partners.