Research News

As COVID-19 vaccination efforts ramp up in developing nations, accurate and accessible vaccination records are critical for children who often lack official identification necessary for the delivery of government or medical assistance.

Biometrics research on face spoof detection at Michigan State University has received international acclaim. The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) team of University Distinguished Professor Anil Jain and former postdoctoral associates Hu Han and Di Wen, has been awarded the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).

America's economic competitiveness is tied directly to the pace of scientific and technological discovery, which requires sustained, long-term support as well as agility.

A potential new weapon against cancer is entering the first phase of clinical trials thanks to a collaboration between Spectrum Health, the Lansing-based company Niowave and Michigan State University.

Alicia and Ryan Ziegler grew up solving problems on their family farm near Battle Creek, Michigan. Now, they solve problems as Spartan biosystems engineers.

When University of Pittsburgh postdoc Sergio E. Ramos—a Mexican citizen with a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich—flew to Switzerland in March 2020, he planned on an enjoyable week visiting friends and collaborators. What he got instead was three months trapped far from his lab. His trip coincided with the abrupt ban on noncitizens entering the United States from Europe imposed early in the coronavirus pandemic.

Peter Savolainen, MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, utilizes his skills and capitalizes on the advantages that a large institution like MSU has to offer his efforts in mobility research.

A computer science undergraduate student in the MSU College of Engineering has been named the recipient of the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. MSU has produced a total of 49 Goldwater Scholars.