Empowering Amazon communities
A multi-disciplinary team of Michigan State University scholars has been awarded $3.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to deliver renewable energy to off-grid communities.
MSU-Q
Members from Michigan State University's Center for Quantum Computing, Science and Engineering, or MSU-Q, will join forces with four leading universities in the Midwest to develop QuSTEAM (Quantum Information Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics), a national model for innovative undergraduate curriculum in the emerging field of quantum technologies.
Leveraging nanoscale liquid flow
Spartan Engineers at Michigan State University are working to mitigate traumatic brain injuries in sports, car accidents, and battle fields by putting the potential of liquid nanofoam to work.
Virus research at MSU
Associate Professor Irene Xagoraraki and her students (Brijen Miyani, Liang Zhao and Maddie Spooner) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University are working with collaborators John Norton - Director of Energy - Research and Innovation of the Great Lakes Water Authority, Anna Mehrotra - Senior Process Engineer with CDM Smith, and Anil Gosine - Program Manager - Office of Deputy Director, City of Detroit Water and Sewerage Dept., to identify upcoming viral outbreaks and predict temporal and spatial fluctuations of COVID-19 in Detroit and Wayne Macomb and Oakland Counties.
Developing diamond implants
Michigan State University's Wen Li and Erin Purcell are leading the effort to use innovative diamond devices to monitor the brain's biochemistry for early warning signs of disease.
