Michigan State University is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing,Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan,the first of its kind in the United States. After the introduction of the Morrill Act in 1862,the state designated the college a land-grant institution in 1863,making it the first of the land-grant colleges in the United States. The college became coeducational in 1870. Today,Michigan State has rapidly expanded its footprint across the state of Michigan with facilities all across the state and one of the largest collegiate alumni networks with 634,000 members.
The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSUCHM) is an academic division of Michigan State University (MSU) that grants the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree,emphasizing patient-centered care and a biopsychosocial approach to caring for patients. Required courses at the college reinforce the importance of ethics and professionalism in medicine. In 2013,U.S. News &World Report ranked the college 46th for primary care. The college was also ranked for family medicine and rural medicine. More than 4,000 M.D.s have graduated from the college. Pre-clinical campuses are located on MSU's main campus in East Lansing,Michigan and in downtown Grand Rapids,Michigan,while the clinical rotations are at seven community campuses located throughout Michigan.
Jonathan Plucker is the Julian C. Stanley Professor of Talent Development at Johns Hopkins University,where he works in the School of Education and the Center for Talented Youth. He previously served as Raymond Neag Endowed Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut and as a professor of educational psychology and cognitive science at Indiana University. A scholar of creativity,intelligence,and education policy,he is the author of over 200 papers and author or editor of four books:Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education with Carolyn Callahan,Essentials of Creativity Assessment with James Kaufman and John Baer,and Intelligence 101 with Amber Esping. Plucker has also led the development of a popular web site on human intelligence. He was the 2007-2008 president of the American Psychological Association's Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics,Creativity,and the Arts.
Angela K. Wilson is an American scientist and former (2022) President of the American Chemical Society. She currently serves as the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,associate dean for strategic initiatives in the College of Natural Sciences,and director of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing,Science,and Engineering (MSU-Q) at Michigan State University.
The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech comprises two schools,12 departments,and three ROTC programs. The college also has connections to research facilities and local community service organizations through which students can earn experience in major related fields and has many study abroad programs. In 2010–11,the college had 4,386 students taking courses on the Blacksburg campus. The college's dean,Rosemary Blieszner,was appointed in 2017.
Nathalie Michelle Sinclair is a Canadian researcher in mathematics education who holds the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Patricia A. Edwards,a member of the Reading Hall of Fame,is a Distinguished Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Teacher Education and a Senior University Outreach Fellow at Michigan State University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in parent involvement,home-school-community partnerships,and multicultural,early,and family/intergenerational literacy with a focus on poor and minority children. She served on the International Literacy Association Board of Directors from 1998–2001,as the first African American President of the Literacy Research Association from 2006–2007,and as President of the International Literacy Association from 2010–2011. Edwards also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Family,School,and Community Partnerships Special Interest Group (SIG) from 2014–2016 and was elected to serve as its President-Elect/President from 2016–2020.
Elizabeth H. Simmons is an American theoretical physicist,and Executive Vice Chancellor at University of California San Diego. Formerly,she was a distinguished professor of physics at Michigan State University,the dean of Lyman Briggs College,and the associate provost for faculty and academic staff development. She has also held positions at Harvard University and Boston University. Simmons is married to fellow physicist,R. Sekhar Chivukula. Together they have two children.
Rachel Toni Algaze Croson is an economist currently serving as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Minnesota,and McKnight Endowed Professor of Economics. Until March 2020,she served as Dean of the College of Social Science and MSU Foundation Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics and the philosophy of science from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Beronda Montgomery is a writer,science communicator,and researcher. In 2022,she moved to Grinnell College as professor of biology and vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. Prior to Grinnell,Montgomery served as Michigan State University Foundation Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry &Molecular Biology and of Microbiology &Molecular Genetics. She was also a member of the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Her research group investigates how photosynthetic organisms adapt to changes in their environment. Her scholarship extends beyond biology and into studying mentorship and faculty development to develop evidence-based strategies to foster equity and inclusion in academia. Together with Tanisha Williams and other members of the Black Botanists Week organizing committee,Montgomery co-founded and co-organizes Black Botanists Week.
Mary Kay Stein is an American mathematics educator who works as a professor of learning sciences and policy and as the associate director and former director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Julie Carol Libarkin is a professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Geocognition Laboratory at Michigan State University. Her research considers how people understand and make decision about the planet. She is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. She also researches and addresses inequality in academia,and tracks academic sexual misconduct cases.
Okhee Lee is an American education scholar and professor of childhood education.
C. Debra M. Furr-Holden is a Professor of Epidemiology at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. She served as the school's Dean from July 1,2022,to March 29,2024.
Kyle Powys Whyte is an Indigenous philosopher and climate/environmental justice scholar. He is a Professor of Environment and Sustainability and George Willis Pack Professor at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. Whyte formally served as the Timnick Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University's College of Arts &Letters.
Cheryl Ann Kerfeld is an American bioengineer who is Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She holds a joint position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research considers bioinformatics,cellular imaging and structural biology.
Angela Marie Calabrese Barton is an American professor of teacher education. She is a Full professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of Green Energy Technology (GET) City program.
Ofelia García (Otheguy) is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs of Latin American,Iberian,and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) and Urban Education at Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is best known for her work on bilingualism,translanguaging,language policy,sociolinguistics,and sociology of language. Her work emphasizes dynamic multilingualism,which is developed through "an interplay between the individual’s linguistic resources and competences as well as the social and linguistic contexts she/he is a part of." Rather than viewing a bilingual's languages as autonomous,García views language practices as complex and interrelated,as reflecting a single linguistic system.
Mark Daniel Reckase is an educational psychologist and expert on quantitative methods and measurement who is known for his work on computerized adaptive testing,multidimensional item response theory,and standard setting in educational and psychological tests. Reckase is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at Michigan State University.
Barbara A. Given is an American oncologist.
