Michigan State University

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The Michigan State University ( MSU also called ) is a university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA, which was founded on February 12, 1855. The Michigan State University is one of the most prestigious public universities in the United States, called a Public Ivy, and is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities. Furthermore, is this university, which maintains no less than three medical schools, to the best research facilities in the world. The doctoral program in nuclear physics is before the MIT ranked first in the United States

14 faculties and one affiliated Law College that grant degrees, offering more than 200 academic programs.

Currently, about 45,100 students who are divided into about 35,600 Undergraduate Students and about 9,500 graduate students enrolled from all 50 states of the United States and 125 other countries. With this number of enrolled students, the MSU was in 2005 ranked sixth in the United States. Also the exchange program of the MSU, which maintains contacts in 60 countries on all continents, is one of the largest in the United States.

The campus covers an area of ​​more than 21 km ², are available on the 660 building. More about distributed throughout Michigan 60 square kilometers are used for research purposes in agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine.

Research and teaching

The Michigan State University is known for its programs in teacher training, agricultural science and nuclear physics as well as for the Eli Broad College of Business and the Physics and Astronomy Department. Since its founding in 1855 as a small university with a focus on agricultural science has placed the emphasis on research. Significant inventions that took place at MSU include the hybrid maize (WJ Beal in 1877 ), homogenized milk (GM Trout in the thirties) and the cancer drug cisplatin in the sixties.

In 2004, scientists discovered at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (short: Cyclotron ) a new isotope of the element germanium, called Ge - 60th The groundbreaking for the 4.1 -meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope set in the Chilean Andes - In the same year - in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Brazilian government. In 2007, Mr. Albert Fert, an associate professor of the University, together with the German Peter Grünberg received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Sports

The sports teams are the MSU Spartans. The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Basketball Mens Team won the NCAA Championships in 1979 (including with Magic Johnson) and 2000. The MSU football team won the Rose Bowl in 1954, 1956, 1988 and 2014. Will be played in Spartan Stadium, which opened in 1923 and since the last enlargement in 2005 can accommodate 75 005 spectators. The mascot is Sparty, a muscular Spartan Warrior, which was 2004, 2005 and 2007 Voted best mascot of the nation, and was nominated in 2006 as one of six university mascot for the " Mascot Hall of Fame".

Famous people

Arts, Literature and Media

Education and University

  • Theda Skocpol (BA 1969), Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Politics and Government

  • Spencer Abraham (BA 1974), former Energy Secretary and Senator
  • Adnan Badran (MA, Ph.D.), former Prime Minister of Jordan
  • John Kornblum, former U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

Law and Economics

Sports

  • Flozell Adams, American football player
  • Carl Banks, American football player
  • Chris -Carol Bremer, float
  • Anson Carter, hockey player
  • Magic Johnson, basketball player
  • Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
  • Morris Peterson, basketball player
  • Jason Richardson, Basketball Player
  • Robin Roberts, Baseball Player
  • Germany Schulz, American football player
  • Jim Slater, hockey player
  • Bubba Smith, American football player
  • Jesse Thomas, American football player

Science

  • Liberty Hyde Bailey ( B. S. 1882), botanist
  • Erich Fromm, psychologist and philosopher
National Collegiate Athletic Association Rose Bowl Game Spartan Stadium (East Lansing, Michigan) Walter Hill (director) Chris-Carol Bremer Robin Roberts (baseball) Jim Slater (ice hockey) Northwestern University Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University Purdue University
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