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For his work on developing new treatments for tuberculosis, a Michigan State University researcher has been named a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Robert Abramovitch of MSU’s Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is using a synthetic biosensor that glows green in response to conditions that [...]
Statistics and probability professor Tapabrata Maiti has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics for his significant research contributions in small area inference, inference for mixed models, and Bayesian methodology in settings such as panel-count data; and for service to the profession, for example extensive service on editorial boards. The award will [...]
The huge changes in the Earth’s crust that influenced human evolution are being redefined, according to research published today in Nature Geoscience. The Great Rift Valley of East Africa — the birthplace of the human species — may have taken much longer to develop than previously believed. “We now believe that the western portion of [...]
The journal Science has awarded a biology lab developed for BS110 the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction. The “Campus Trees Phenology Project” was developed by Tammy Long, an assistant professor of plant biology, and Sara Wyse, now an assistant professor of biological sciences at Bethel University, as part of the coursework in the class Biological Sciences [...]
Tom Hamann, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. The two-year fellowships are awarded yearly by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to 118 early-career scientists in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. His research interests in inorganic materials and electrochemistry of energy [...]
Dapeng Zhan, assistant professor of mathematics, has been named a recipient of the Salem Prize from the the Institute for Advanced Study. The Salem Prize is awarded annually to young researchers for outstanding contributions to the field of analysis. Zhan received the award, along with Julien Dubedat from Columbia University, in recognition of their outstanding [...]
A team of researchers led by David Kramer, Hannah Distinguished Professor of Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics, has discovered how to give the plant enzyme ATP synthase increased function so it works during both the daytime and nighttime. The discovery, featured in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows that plants evolved [...]
In the current issue of Science, MSU evolutionary biologists demonstrate how a new virus evolves, which sheds light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The research showed for the first time how the virus called “Lambda” evolved to find a new way to attack host cells, an innovation that [...]
A team of researchers led by Postdoctoral Researcher Basir Ahmad has demonstrated that slow-wriggling alpha-synuclein proteins are the cause of aggregation, or clumping together, which is the first step of Parkinson’s. The results are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lisa Lapidus, associate professor of physics and astronomy [...]
Visiting Hannah Professor Dan Nocera is profiled in the January 3, 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Nocera is a chemistry professor at MIT and currently a Visiting Hannah Professor in the MSU Department of Chemistry. Nocera has developed an artificial leaf [...]
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