Getting To Know: Spartan faithful staff member Alicia Heeney
Alicia Heeney has spent 15 years helping Spartan Nation, including the past eight years supporting the College’s Undergraduate Studies Office. She was recently featured in the MSU Administrative Professional Association newsletter, in a Q & A (opens in new window) written by Gerlind Kiupel of the APA Communication Committee.
Wei Liao creates biorefining solutions for organic waste
Wei Liao is a professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering and the director of the Michigan State University Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center. He is featured in this Spotlight article, courtesy of the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
MSU is collaborating to future-proof chemical discovery
Michigan State University researchers are leading a new grant project funded by the National Science Foundation at more than $3.8 million to keep computational chemistry’s infrastructure humming.
MSU leads an interconnected mobility ecosystem
Sparked by the Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901 and accelerated by Ford’s pioneering assembly lines, automotive production in Michigan has been at the forefront of the mobility industry for more than a century. Still today, there are more than two dozen original equipment manufacturers in our state supplying automakers worldwide.
How will autonomous vehicles impact society in the future?
The relationship between society and mobility is a two-way street. All the ways and means by which people get around have profound impacts on how we interact with each other. At the same time, social considerations help steer the technology and infrastructure we use for transportation.