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Almost 250,000 alumni and friends brought Michigan State University to a significant milestone: surging past the fundraising goal of $1.5 billion more than a year before the Empower Extraordinary campaign closed. While MSU is still accepting campaign gifts until Dec. 31, 2018, the campaign total currently sits at an extraordinary $1.7 billion.

John Papapolymerou, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE);, recently accepted $50,000 from two Spartans in the Dallas area to support the David A. and Michele M. Pahl Endowed Student Award Fund in ECE.

Michigan State University joined with other leading institutions around the country on Oct. 9 at the 2018 CSforALL Summit in Detroit in announcing new commitments to computer science education.

Around 70 experts in nondestructive evaluation gathered in Detroit when Michigan State University hosted the 23rd International Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation Workshop (ENDE2018) in September.

A plaque recognizing the friendship of James A. Schmidt to the Michigan State University College of Engineering was unveiled on Sept. 10 during the dedication of the JASchmidt Manufacturing Teaching Laboratory in the Engineering Building.

PhD student Muhamad Munum Masud, and his advisor Associate Professor Syed Waqar Haider, of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering earned an international award in the Transportation & Development Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers-LTPP International Data Analysis Contest. The competition is also sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

For advancing pattern recognition for 50 years, Anil Jain of Michigan State University was presented an honorary doctorate by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) during ceremonies in Spain in September.

Imagine being able to learn the likelihood of your unborn child someday developing a disease such as cancer, heart disease or diabetes. And what if, in addition to arming you with that information, doctors were able to repair the defective genes that are the root cause of the disease?