MSU Research Drives Smart Planning

MSU researchers, including Dong Zhao, CM Associate Professor, and Noah Durst, UP Assistant Professor, continue their work designing smart cities with an electric vehicle charging station network within Michigan and throughout the U.S.

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MSU Today published a story about MSU researchers' new National Science Foundation grant for $500,000 to continue their work designing smart cities with infrastructure and policies to support the creation of an electric vehicle charging station network within Michigan and throughout the U.S. Dong Zhao, Associate Professor in Construction Management, is partnering with Noah Durst, Assistant Professor in Urban & Regional Planning, as well as Jan Beecher, director of the MSU Institute of Public Utilities.

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Check out the story at WKAR: MSU wins grant to design EV charging station infrastructure | WKAR Public Media.

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