East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Most of the city lies within Ingham County with a smaller portion extending north into Clinton County. At the 2020 Census the population was 47,741. Located directly east of the state capital of Lansing,East Lansing is well-known as the home of Michigan State University. The city is part of the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area.
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. In 1955,the state officially made the college a university,and the current name,Michigan State University,was adopted in 1964. 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.
Michigan State University (MSU) offers over 200 academic programs at its East Lansing,Michigan campus. MSU is well known for its academic programs in education and agriculture,and the university pioneered the studies of packaging,horticulture and music therapy. MSU has one of the premier hospitality schools in the United States,and the study abroad program is one of the largest of any university in the nation,offering more than 300 programs in more than 60 countries on all continents,including Antarctica. MSU's Office of the University Ombudsperson is the oldest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country. Its most popular undergraduate majors,based on 2021 graduates,were:
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.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology;and Director,Center for Native Peoples and the Environment,at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
Nancy Oestreich Lurie was an American anthropologist who specialized in the study of North American Indian history and culture. Lurie's research specialties were ethnohistory,action anthropology and museology;her areal focus was on North American Indians,especially the Ho-Chunk and the Dogrib (Tlicho) of the Canadian NWT;and the comparative study of territorial minorities.
Samuel L. Stanley Jr. is an American educator and biomedical researcher. He was the President of Michigan State University from 2019 until November 2022,and he was the President of Stony Brook University from 2009 to 2019. Stanley is one of the founding directors of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research.
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.
Dr. 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.
Bunyan I. Bryant Jr. is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. In 1972,he became the first African American member of the School for Environment and Sustainability faculty at the University of Michigan. He is considered a pioneer in the field of environmental justice.
C. Debra M. Furr-Holden is an American epidemiologist. She is the Dean of New York University’s School of Global Public Health.
Barbara Lynn Schneider is an American sociologist and education scholar. She is the John A. Hannah Chair and University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Department of Sociology at Michigan State University (MSU).
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.
Barbara A. Given is an American oncologist.
Elena Litchman is a professor of aquatic ecology at Michigan State University known for her research on the consequences of global environmental change on phytoplankton.
C. Kurt Dewhurst is an American curator and folklorist. Dewhurst is Director for Arts and Cultural Partnerships at Michigan State University (MSU) and also a Senior Fellow in University Outreach and Engagement. At MSU,he is also Director Emeritus of the Michigan State University Museum and a Professor of English and Museum Studies.
Richard E. Lucas is an American psychologist specializing in personality psychology. Lucas is an MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He was president of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP) from 2020 to 2021. He was awarded the ARP service award in 2019. Lucas is the editor of the Personality Processes and Individual Differences section of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Jianguo Liu is a Chinese American ecologist and sustainability scientist specializing in the human-environment and sustainability studies. He is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University.
