Research News

Michigan State University will be home to a new Industrial Assessment Center, or IAC, where faculty, staff and students will work with Michigan companies to save money, improve energy efficiency and shrink carbon footprints.

Back in January, Stavros Vakalis, a PhD student in the MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), received a highly competitive 2021 graduate fellowship from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).

A Michigan State University research team will work to prevent pressure injuries from power wheelchairs with the help of a $550,000 Innovation Award from the National Science Foundation.

Michigan State University's Advanced Blast Chamber (ABC) is expanding what science knows about battlefield trauma - and now research conducted at the facility located south of campus has earned international recognition for an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Evangelyn Alocilja, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, believes that the collective efforts of scientists and researchers are critical in detecting and preventing illness in impoverished and underserved communities.

We live in a time when it's never been easier or less expensive to sequence a plant's complete genome. But knowing all of a plant's genes is not the same thing as knowing what all those genes do.

Two Michigan State University labs will receive nearly $6 million for projects to conduct COVID-19 wastewater surveillance and testing.

"Ask the Expert" articles at Michigan State University provide information and insights from MSU scientists, researchers and scholars about national and global issues, complex research and general-interest subjects based on their areas of academic expertise and study.

The NIH has pledged nearly $4 million to help MSU researchers develop computer algorithms capable of detecting early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease.