Astronomers Ming Sun, Megan Donahue and Mark Voit, using MSU’s SOuthern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, are part of a team of astronomers who have discovered a number of stars forming in a section of our universe that is not normally conducive to the birth of stars. Read more…
Physics senior Kurtis Geerlings, one of MSU’s Goldwater Scholars for 2007, has developed “SpartyJet” – a computer software program to run different jet-finding algorithms. The program is being used by scientists at the ATLAS Experiment at CERN and other locations. Read more…
MSU has launched Venture – an online database listing undergraduate research positions. Venture connects students to the research and scholarship of faculty members and also provides a convenient way for faculty to post openings for undergraduate student research assistants. …Go to venture.msu.edu.
In the Sept. 7 edition of the journal Science, Frances Trail, associate professor of plant biology and of plant pathology, and Jonathan Walton, professor in the Plant Research Laboratory, joined scientists around the world in picking over the inner workings of the fungal plant pathogen, Fusarium graminearum. Read more…
