Michigan State University

This article is about the public-policy college at Michigan State University. For the similarly named institution in Virginia, see James Madison... University. James Madison College is a college of public affairs and international relations within Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1967, "with a vision of creating a residential college merging the best attributes of a small college with an undergraduate education focusing on public affairs and firmly rooted in liberal arts"; the college was named after James Madison in honor of his role in writing the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers . Originally considered experimental, the college has since come to be recognized as among the best in the nation. The college was developed as part of MSU president John A. Hannah's attempts to increase the profile of the university and to capitalize off of the international and federal government contacts developed by the otherwise ignominious MSU Vietnam Project.
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The Michigan State University College of Law is a private law school located in East Lansing, Michigan which is affiliated with Michigan State... University. Established in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law, it was the first law school in the Detroit, Michigan area and the second in the state of Michigan. The college opened in 1891 with 69 students and was incorporated in 1893. It is the oldest continuously operating independent law school in the United States. The college's first home was in the Detroit College of Medicine building from 1892 to 1913. From 1913 to 1924 it was housed in the YMCA building. In 1935 the college broke ground for a new building at 130 E. Elizabeth Street. Among the first class of 69 students to graduate were a future circuit judge and an ambassador. A woman in the first class and an African American in the second were precursors of the Law College’s commitment to excellent educational opportunity for all sectors of the population. The college became affiliated with Michigan State University in 1995 to take advantage of enhanced facilities and association with a Big Ten institution.
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The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine is an academic division of Michigan State University , and grants the Doctor of Medicine ... degree. CHM was founded in 1964 as the first community-integrated medical school, and has a program that emphasizes 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 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 20th for primary care and 7th for rural medicine. More than 3,600 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 . Michigan State University appointed Andrew D. Hunt, MD as the first dean of the College of Human Medicine in 1964. The college began training pre-clinical medical students in the fall of 1966, though these students needed to finish the final two years of their medical school education at other schools.
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The College of Engineering at Michigan State University is made up of 6 departments with 168 faculty members, nearly 3,000 undergraduate students, 9... undergraduate B.S. degree programs and a wide spectrum of graduate programs in both M.S. and Ph.D. levels. Each department offers at least one degree program, however many include more than one degree, multi-disciplinary programs, certifications and specialties as well as other degree programs affiliated with other colleges at Michigan State University. Approximately 3,000 undergraduate students are enrolled and 500 Bachelor of Science degrees are awarded annually. Each year, approximately 800 students are enrolled in advanced degree programs and nearly 200 MS and PhD degrees are awarded. Graduate programs are offered in biosystems engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, and engineering mechanics. The MSU college of engineering has been accredited with many developments in automotive industry.
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The College of Natural Science at Michigan State University is home to 24 academic departments and programs serving over 6,000 undergraduate majors... and 1,000 graduate students in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences. The College of Natural Science offers many opportunities for undergraduate students to enhance their education through research projects in labs on campus and field locations throughout the world. Advanced degree programs in the college provide graduate students a forum for interacting with more than 400 faculty and collaborate across traditional boundaries in a wide array of research initiatives ranging from nanotechnology to the origins of the universe and from gene expression to the bioeconomy. Advanced study is available through the following degree programs and specializations: More information on degrees andadvanced studies can be found on the college website. The College of Natural Science offers several PSM Degrees to prepare and train students in technical areas for positions in industry. The PSM is a professional M.S.
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The Michigan State University College of Nursing is a nursing college affiliated with Michigan State University, and is located on the MSU campus in... East Lansing, Michigan, USA. The college is centered in the Life Sciences Building, adjacent to the College of Human Medicine. The dean of the school is Mary Mundt, PhD, MSN, BSN.
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The Eli Broad College of Business is the business college at Michigan State University. The college has programs in accounting, general business -... pre-law, finance, general management, human resource management, marketing, supply chain management, and hospitality business, which is an independent, industry-specific school within the Broad School . The school has 4,276 undergraduate students and 720 graduate students. Eli Broad, an alumnus of Michigan State, endowed the college in 1991. The Eli Broad School of Business is located on the campus of Michigan State University in the Eugene C. Eppley Center and North Business Complex. Inside North Business complex is the Lear Corporation Career Services Center and the William C. Gast Business Library. The weekend Master of Business Administration program and executive development programs are held at the James B. Henry Center for Executive Development and the Broad MBA program is housed in the Management Education Center in Troy Michigan. Eli offers undergraduate degrees in accounting, finance, general management, human resource management, marketing, and supply chain management.
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Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was an American professional football player who became an actor after his retirement from the sport. He first came into... prominence at Michigan State University, where he twice earned All-American honors as a defensive end on the Spartans football team. He had a major role in a 10–10 draw with Notre Dame in 1966 that was billed as "The Game of the Century." He was one of only three players to have his jersey number retired by the program. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988. He played nine years in the National Football League with the Baltimore Colts , Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers . The first selection of the 1967 NFL Draft, he was the Colts' starting left defensive end for five seasons who played in Super Bowls III and V, the latter with the winning side. He was named to two Pro Bowls and was a First-Team All-Pro in 1971. Despite being 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 265 pounds , his tremendous speed and quickness usually caused him to draw two blockers.
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Eugene N. Parker is an American solar astrophysicist who received his B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D. from... Caltech in 1951. In the mid 1950s Parker developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic field in the outer solar system. In 1987, Parker proposed that the solar corona might be heated by myriad tiny "micro-flares", miniature solar flares that occur all over the surface of the Sun. Parker was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967. As of early 2005, he was still engaged in active research at the University of Chicago. His daughter and son-in-law are both faculty members at Michigan State University. Parker spent four years at the University of Utah and has been at the University of Chicago since 1955, where he has held positions in the physics department, the astronomy and astrophysics department and the Enrico Fermi Institute. He is the leading authority on the solar wind and the effects of magnetic fields in the heliosphere.
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Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National... Basketball Association . After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA Draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. After protests from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 37, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time. Johnson's career achievements include three NBA MVP Awards, nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations. He led the league in regular-season assists four times, and is the NBA's all-time leader in assists per game, with an average of 11.2. Johnson was a member of the "Dream Team", the U.S.
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Thomas Edward "Tom" Sizemore, Jr. is an American film and television actor and producer. He is known for his roles in films such as Saving Private... Ryan, Strange Days, Pearl Harbor, Heat and Black Hawk Down. Sizemore is also known for his supporting roles in well known films such as The Relic, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Wyatt Earp and Devil in a Blue Dress. Sizemore was born in Detroit, Michigan. His mother, Judith , was a member of the city of Detroit ombudsman staff, and his father, Thomas Edward Sizemore, Sr., now retired, was a lawyer and philosophy professor. His family has paternal Welsh and maternal French ancestry. He has three brothers, Charlie, Aaron and Paul, who is also an actor. Sizemore attended Michigan State University for one year, as well as Wayne State University. He earned a Master's degree in theatre from Temple University in 1986. He subsequently moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.
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