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During the holidays, it's not just Santa who's watching you. Hackers are lurking, so be equally mindful of your phone as you are your cash and credit cards.

Fingerprint authentication systems are a widely trusted, ubiquitous form of biometric authentication, deployed on billions of smartphones and other devices worldwide. Yet a new study from Michigan State University and New York University reveals a surprising level of vulnerability in these systems.

The Michigan State University College of Engineering will celebrate a quarter-century of student creativity and innovation on Friday, Dec. 7, during "25 Years of Design Day" - an event that has become the showcase of technical skill, experiential learning, and collaboration each semester.

Anil Jain of Michigan State University has been named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for a lifetime of perspectives and publications that have inspired students and researchers worldwide. He was one of 46 new fellows elected at the 28th TWAS general meeting in Trieste, Italy, Nov. 27-29.

There's a hall of fame that sits on three shelves in Percy Pierre's office in the Michigan State University College of Engineering. The black bound volumes of PhD dissertations begin with his own from 1967 and travel through time from Dale Joachim's in 1998 to more recent ones, including Kayra M. Hopkins and Armand Rashad Burks in 2017.

Come to Room 225, Natural Resources Building, to hear University Distinguished Professor Ramani Narayan on Nov. 13 at 3:30 p.m.

Four hundred and thirty-five students later, Michigan State University is proving a point. MSU has established a way to take students from underrepresented populations and help them find academic and professional success in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, where many high-paying engineering and technology jobs await.