Research News

MSU Civil Engineer Karim Chatti is among the experts who helped Inside Science explore the old question: How Much Damage Do Heavy Trucks Do to Our Roads?

With a nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University researchers are using nanoscopic particles to turn the body's own cells into weapons that cancer won't see coming.

Civil engineers at Michigan State University are helping the State of Michigan evaluate methods for enforcing violations of distracted driving and dangerous cell phone use.

Ajit Srivastava, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE), has been named a 2020 Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE), one of the field's top honors.

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.

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.

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.

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.