Research News

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.

Ian Gonzalez-Afanador, a Ph.D. student in the Michigan State University College of Engineering, has been selected for the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Spartan Engineer Tamara Reid Bush is making transportation more accessible through her research on whole-body biomechanics. She is currently the interim chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Each year students in the MSU College of Engineering nominate their favorite faculty members for coveted Teaching Excellence Awards - recognitions that are presented during the annual Engineering Awards celebration.

A new award was presented in the Michigan State University College of Engineering this spring to honor the "extraordinary impact" of staff members who show "exceptional attitude, reliability and dependability."