Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist at Michigan State University. They’re developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.
Publish Date: Nov. 02, 2009 | Multimedia: 
A collaboration of chemists, mathematicians and engineers at Michigan State University is driving to improve solar panel technology, backed by a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Publish Date: Oct. 14, 2009 | Multimedia:
A Michigan State University scholar will use a $1 million federal grant to create a program designed to better prepare high-schoolers for technical careers by spurring interest in science, technology, engineering and math courses.
Publish Date: Oct. 06, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University's Department of Entomology will use a federal stimulus grant to upgrade its arthropod research collection, which is good news for students, scientists and others who depend on the 1.5 million-specimen collection for their work.
Publish Date: Sept. 30, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan State University mathematics faculty Di Liu and Jeff Schenker recently received Faculty Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation, or NSF.
Publish Date: Aug. 13, 2009
Michigan State University has been awarded a three-year grant by the National Science Foundation to establish a first-of-its-kind Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering Site program on Bio-Inspired Technology and Systems in Michigan.
Publish Date: Aug. 06, 2009 | Multimedia:
Jeff Gour, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and doctoral student working with Piotr Piecuch, a professor of chemistry at Michigan State University, was among the delegation of U.S. graduate students invited to participate in the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates, held in Lindau, Germany.
Publish Date: Aug. 05, 2009
In the forest’s fight for survival, it’s the tallest trees that prevail by reaching for sunlight and shading competition. Corn and other plants, too, divert precious energy to grow higher when nearby plants start to encroach.
Publish Date: July 22, 2009 | Multimedia:
With exotic invaders such as garlic mustard plants threatening Michigan forest ecosystems and purple loosestrife crowding out native cattails in wetlands, improving the ability to predict and prevent damaging plant invasions is the aim of a unique research initiative spearheaded by a Michigan State University researcher.
Publish Date: July 14, 2009
The Michigan State University Department of Mathematics continues to have success with a Research and Technology Group award from the National Science Foundation to teach and research geometry and topology.
Publish Date: July 14, 2009
*Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read PDF documents.
Site Map | Accessibility of this Site | Contact Us | MSU Home
University Relations • 403 Olds Hall • East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1047 • (517) 355-2281 • Fax: (517) 353-5368
© 2009 Michigan State University Board of Trustees East Lansing, MI 48824.
MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer.