STATE UNIVERSITIES
MSU receives $1M NSF grant to enhance college counseling services
Michigan State University has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help fund researchers at MSU’s colleges of Engineering and Communication Arts and Sciences, as well as the MSU Counseling Center, who are working to develop a mobile human-centered system, known as iSee that will supplement in-person counseling services.
Eastern Michigan University offers wide variety of new dining options
Eastern Michigan University is overhauling its campus dining services over the next two years, part of an $18 million investment that will result in an overall and significant transformation of EMU campus dining in the months ahead. EMU is bringing in various specialty features including Zingerman’s Coffee and Smashburger, who specializes in made-to-order burgers.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
University of Iowa opening new medical device design lab soon
The University of Iowa College of Engineering received a $819,786 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to develop a medical device design laboratory opening this fall on campus. The new Carver Medical Device Design Lab will be equipped with machines and tools capable of helping engineers design and produce industry-standard medical device prototypes. The lab will be more advanced than the college’s current facilities, which are better outfitted for creating early-stage prototypes.
UT-Austin’s School of Architecture establishes diversity initiative
The School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin is establishing a new program on race, gender and the American built environment. The effort aims to facilitate diversity among design and planning professionals and students, and foster innovation in teaching and research on race, gender and inequality in American cities.
U. of Minnesota awarded grant for physics-based approach to cancer
The National Cancer Institute awarded the University of Minnesota an $8.2 million Physical Sciences in Oncology Center grant over the next five years to develop a cell migration simulator that will predict how cancer cells spread in the body leading to invasion and metastasis. Researchers will combine engineering and medical approaches to understand the fundamental mechanics and chemistry of how cells create forces to move through complex and mechanically challenging tumor microenvironments.
— Compiled by Sarah Starr, Public Affairs
