News
- March 13, 2019
- NSP Faculty Wins APS Award
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Dr. Gina Leinninger received the 2019 American Physiological Society Central Nervous System Section New Investigator Award.
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- February 6, 2019
- Otwell and Steffke nominated for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
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Neuroscience majors, Abi Otwell and Emily Steffke, are two of four outstanding undergraduate STEM students, nominated from MSU, for the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
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- January 29, 2019
- Barman awarded William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award
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Dr. Susan Barman was one of the ten awardees of the 2019 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award. The William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty award acknowledges their outstanding contributions to education and research.
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- January 29, 2019
- Zombie cells could be the key to Alzheimer's susceptibility
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The National Institute on Aging has awarded a Dr. Marcia Gordon, Dr. David Morgan and Dr. Scott Counts nearly $3 million grant to study how aging increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and to investigate treatments that could delay or prevent it.
- January 18, 2019
- Michelle Mazei-Robison receives ASPET Neuropharmacology Early Career Award
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The ASPET Division for Neuropharmacology named Dr. Michelle Mazei-Robison from Michigan State University as the recipient of the 2019 Division for Neuropharmacology Early Career Award. The award was established to honor a young independent investigator working in neuropharmacology.
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- January 18, 2019
- Gene therapy could eliminate drug side effect in Parkinson's patients
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A Michigan State University researcher has received a $2.8 million federal grant to develop a gene therapy that could reduce and possibly eliminate a frustrating side effect of a drug commonly prescribed to Parkinson’s patients.
- August 20, 2018
- Magnetic gene in fish may someday help those with epilepsy, parkinson's
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An aquarium fish that senses the Earth’s magnetic field as it swims could help unlock how the human brain works and how diseases such as Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders function.
- August 20, 2018
- NIH grant to advance biological circuits
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A cross-disciplinary team of biomedical and electrical engineers will build biological circuits, oscillators and toggle switches inside cells to respond to electromagnetic fields as a means to fight against neurological illnesses and diseases.
- June 28, 2018
- The Neuroscience behind social media use
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There’s no official medical diagnosis for excessive social media use — at least not yet. However, new research suggests that compulsive use of online social networking sites may be more than just an innocuous habit.
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- June 14, 2018
- Early source of irritable bowel syndrome discovered
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Michigan State University scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict about 11 percent of the world’s population.
- May 25, 2018
- What do you hear? Laurel or Yanny
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In this video from the McGovern institute for Brain Research at MIT, PhD students Dana Boebinger and Kevin Sitek, unpack the science around this hot debat
- May 11, 2018
- It's not my fault, my brain implant made me do it
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Lawyers, philosophers and ethicists have labored to define the conditions under which individuals are to be judged legally and morally responsible for their actions.
- May 4, 2018
- Post-Baccalaureate training opportunity
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Oregon Health & Science University is offering a new neuroscience post-baccalaureate training opportunity which will begin September 2018. We are currently recruiting applicants through June 1, 2018. Please see the attached flyer for more details. The program is specifically for individuals from NIH underrepresented groups.
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- March 1, 2018
- William Yakah: Connecting the Dots
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William is a junior majoring in neuroscience and is a College of Natural Science Dean's Research Scholar. Yakah is an international student who hails from Accra, Ghana.
- February 8, 2018
- Darwin Day Lecture - Darwin and the "Soul"
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Join Dr. Reimers as he discusses the question of how the so-called 'higher capacities' of humanity could have evolved has vexed scientists since Charles Darwin on February 14, 2018 at the Women's City Club, Grand Rapids, MI
- February 8, 2018
- Darwin Day talk in Grand Rapids February 8th
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Our human mind has evolved from an ape mind over the past six million years. How have our brains and genes changed to bring this about
- February 2, 2018
- University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum
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The Undergraduate Research Office sponsors several workshops this semester aimed at helping students prepare for UURAF or other conference presentations.
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- January 18, 2018
- MSU Scientists open window into psychosis
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Michigan State University scientists will use a $1.5 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate and potentially identify the brain mechanisms related to this peculiar behavior.
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- December 18, 2017
- Cheryl Sisk recommeded interim dean of College of Natural Science
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Cheryl Sisk, associate dean of faculty development in the College of Natural Science, will be recommeded as interim dean of the college.
- November 14, 2017
- Rajiv Ranganathan: Reality of Movement
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360 Perspective Faculty Voice highlights Dr. Rajiv Ranganathan, is particularly interested in how humans produce skilled and coordinated movement, and how this ability is altered in the context of development, aging and movement disorder