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Michigan State University gets $25 million federal grant to establish center for studying evolution

Feb. 18, 2010
National Science Foundation funds will help the university create the center
From The Lansing State Journal: Michigan State University in East Lansing has received a five-year, $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a center for the study of evolution in the natural world and in digital worlds as well. Dubbed the Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium, or BEACON, it is meant to bring together biologists with computer scientists and engineers, basic science with practical applications.

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