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Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing was established in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act. Its alumni include at least six winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. The University record of Rhodes Scholars has led the Big Ten since the 1970s.
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing pioneered the studies of packaging, hospitality business, telecommunication, and music therapy. Today its study-abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the country, offering more than 200 programs in more than 60 countries on all continents including Antarctica. It is considered to be one of America's Public Ivy universities, which recognizes top public research universities in the United States. Following the introduction of the Morrill Act, the college became coeducational and expanded its curriculum beyond agriculture. After World War II, the number of students tripled as the institution became a major university. Today, Michigan State University is the eighth-largest university in the United States, with 47,100 students and 2,954 faculty members.
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing Division I sports teams are called the Spartans. They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.Michigan State University football team won the Rose Bowl in 1954, 1956, and 1988 and boasts six national championships. Its men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Athletic Association National Championship in 1979 and 2000 while currently enjoying a streak of six Final Four appearances in the last past 12 seasons. Michigan State University men's ice hockey has won national titles in 1966, 1986, and 2007.
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing has the eighth largest student body in the U.S. For the fiscal year of 2007-08, the Office of the Registrar enumerated a total of 51,778 annual non-duplicate enrollments where 10,540 degrees were conferred. The student body is 55% female and 45% male. While 89% of students come from all 83 counties in the State of Michigan, also represented are all 50 states in the U.S. and about 125 other countries. Michigan State University has about 4,500 faculty and 6,000 staff members, and a student/faculty ratio of 19:1. Listed as a Public Ivy, Michigan State is a member of the Association of American Universities. Michigan State University Ombudsman is the longest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country. Albert Fert, an Adjunct professor at
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Peter Grünberg. Michigan State University study abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the United States with 2,461 students studying abroad in 2004–2005 in over 60 countries on all continents, including Antarctica. Michigan State University has six faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences; Martin Bukovac , James Dye, Pamela Fraker, Richard Lenski, Michael Thomashow, and James Tiedje.
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing spent nearly $377 million in 2006–07 on research, capping a long history of academic research. In 1877, botany professor William J. Beal performed the first documented genetic crosses to produce hybrid corn, which led to increased yields. Michigan State University dairy professor G. Malcolm Trout invented the process for the homogenization of milk in the 1930s. In the 1960s,
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing scientists developed cisplatin, a leading cancer fighting drug. Today Michigan State continues its research with facilities such as the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory and a particle accelerator called the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science named Michigan State University as the site for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. The $550 million facility will attract top researchers from around the world to conduct experiments in basic nuclear science, astrophysics, and applications of isotopes to other fields.
In 2004, scientists at the Cyclotron produced and observed a new isotope of the element germanium, called Ge-60 In that same year, Michigan State, in consortium with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the government of Brazil, broke ground on the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope in the Andes Mountains of Chile. The consortium telescope will allow the Physics & Astronomy department to study galaxy formation and origins. Since 1999,
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing has been part of another consortium called the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, which aims to develop biotechnology research in the State of Michigan. Finally, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences' Quello Center researches current issues of information and communication management.
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing has several residential colleges, based on the Oxbridge "living-learning" model. By putting classes in student dormitories, these colleges improve student access to faculty and facilities. Michigan State University first residential college, Justin Morrill College started in 1965 with an interdisciplinary curriculum. Michigan State University closed Morrill College in 1979, but today the university has three residential colleges, including the recent opening of the Residential College in Arts & Humanities located in Snyder and Phillips halls.
East Lansing is very much a college town, with 60.2% of the population between the ages of 15 and 24. President John A. Hannah's push to expand in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the largest residence hall system in the United States. Around 16,000 students live in
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall, and three apartment villages. Each residence hall has its own hall government, with representatives in the Residence Halls Association. Yet despite the size and extent of on-campus housing, the residence halls complimented by a variety of housing options. 58% of students live off-campus, mostly in the areas closest to campus, in either apartment buildings, former single-family homes, fraternity and sorority houses, or in a co-op.
Activists have played an important role in
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing history. During the height of the Vietnam War, student protests helped create co-ed residence halls, and blocked the routing of Interstate 496 through campus. In the 1980s, Michigan State students convinced the University to divest the stocks of companies doing business in apartheid South Africa from its endowment portfolio, such as Coca-Cola.
Michigan State University - MSU East Lansing has many student groups focused on political change. Graduate campus groups include the Graduate Employees Union and the Council of Graduate Students. Michigan State also has a variety of partisan groups ranging from liberal to conservative, including the College Republicans, the College Democrats and several third party organizations. Other partisan activist groups include Young Americans for Freedom and Young Americans for Liberty on the right; Young Democratic Socialists, Students for Economic Justice, Young Communist League and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán on the left. Given Michigan State University proximity to the Michigan state capital of Lansing, many politically inclined Spartans intern for state representatives.
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