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15 unusual facts about Michigan State University


2004–05 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team

The 2004–05 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2004–05 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

43657 Bobmiller

It is named for Robert Donald Miller, an American astronomer at Michigan State University.

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

In 1970 Beit-Hallahmi received a PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan State University.

Brownstown Bombers

Bishop later went on to become a sports reporter for The State News, Michigan State University's student newspaper.

Capital Area Transportation Authority

The Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) is the public transit authority that operates mass transit bus service and paratransit within the metro Lansing, Michigan area, including service on the campus of Michigan State University.

CATA operates a satellite hub, called the MSU/CATA Transportation Center, on the Michigan State University campus.

Edgar L. Harden

Edgar L. Harden (October 31, 1906 – May 2, 1996) was the president of Michigan State University from 1977 to 1979.

GE 45-ton switcher

Michigan State University's on-campus T. B. Simon Power Plant uses a 45-tonner painted in school colors to position coal hoppers under a Carhoe II unloader.

Ivan Ilyin

Following the death of Ilyin's wife in 1963, Ilyin scholar Nikolai Poltoratzky had Ilyin's manuscripts and papers brought from Zurich to Michigan State University, where he was a professor of Russian.

Matthew W. McKeon

Matthew W. McKeon is the chair of the philosophy department at Michigan State University and well known philosopher of logic.

Orangi Pilot Project

He was also a research fellow and visiting professor at Michigan State University (US), Director of the Pakistan Academy of Rural Development and Principal of Victoria College (Bangladesh).

Penelope Peterson

Peterson was named Dean of Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in September 1997 and previously served as University Distinguished Professor of Education at Michigan State University and Sears-Bascom Professor of Education at University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Robert S. Shaw

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Robert Sidey Shaw (July 24, 1871 – February 7, 1953) was president of the Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (now Michigan State University) from 1928 to 1941.

The Radio Reader

Since Estell's retirement from Michigan State University in 1986, the show has been recorded and produced in his home studio in Haslett, Michigan, near East Lansing.


Adam C. Stacey

He returned to Michigan to pursue his collegiate education receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a degree from the Honors College at Michigan State University in 1996.

Antonio Gates

Originally, Gates enrolled at Michigan State University wanting to play football under then-coach Nick Saban as well as basketball under coach Tom Izzo but upon enrolling Saban wanted him to play only football.

Assyria Township, Michigan

In the 1890s he attended the Briggs School (named for his grandfather, Clement Briggs, who donated the land) before going to college at Michigan State College, the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University.

Barbara Gilders-Dudeck

A product of Detroit's Western High School, John swam at the collegiate level for Michigan State University.

Carol Folt

After conducting postdoctoral studies at the Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University, she joined Dartmouth in 1983 as a research instructor in biological sciences, and has conducted extensive research in metal toxicity.

Clifford M. Hardin

He taught Agricultural Economics at the Michigan State University of Lansing from 1944 to 1948, when he became the assistant director and then the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Comparison of MD and DO in the United States

Michigan State University and Rowan University are the only universities that have both M.D. and D.O. accredited programs.

David Sloan Wilson

He then served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Zoology of Michigan State University from 1980-1988.

Don Gonyea

Gonyea is a 1978 graduate of Michigan State University, where he worked for the public television station, WKAR-TV, one of the first such university-based public television stations in the nation.

Earl Morrall

Morrall led Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan, to a state football championship in 1951, setting off a determined recruiting effort by the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University.

Ed Budde

A product of Denby High School in Detroit, Michigan, and later Michigan State University, Ed Budde was chosen as the number one draft pick of the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs (then the Dallas Texans) in 1963.

Epaphroditus Ransom

He was also the first president of the Michigan Agricultural Society, which was instrumental in the creation of both the Michigan State Fair and Michigan State University.

Eric Knechtges

Eric Knechtges has studied at the Indiana University (Bloomington) Jacobs School of Music (DM), Bowling Green State University (MM) and Michigan State University (BMusEd); he has also taught music (band, chorus, and music appreciation) at Addison Community Schools in Michigan.

Forensic entomologist

Of the total, most are also affiliated with colleges such as Texas A&M University and Michigan State University where entomology courses are taught and research conducted (Professional Status of Entomologists).

Goran Suton

He has completed his college career with the Michigan State Spartans in 2009.

Indiana Limestone

In addition, many buildings on the north side of Michigan State University use Indiana limestone.

James Tiedje

James Tiedje is the director of the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (CME) at Michigan State University, as well as a Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences and Microbiology.

June Goodfield

She was consultant at Harvard University's Department of Education (1960-65), Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Wellesley College (1966-69), Professor of Human Medicine and Philosophy at Michigan State University (1969-78), Senior Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University (1977-82), and Robinson Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Kenyon L. Butterfield

He was president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1903-1906); the Massachusetts Agricultural College (1906-1924), and the Michigan Agricultural College, (later Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, which is now Michigan State University) from 1924 to 1928.

Lars-Göran Lönnermark

Lönnermark studied at Michigan State University in 1958-1959 through the international exchange program, where he became a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Leonard Falcone

All recordings cited are in the collection of the MSU archives.

M. Cecil Mackey

Cecil Mackey (born January 23, 1929) was the president of University of South Florida from 1971 to 1976, Texas Tech University from 1976 to 1979, and Michigan State University from 1979 to 1985.

Mazes and Monsters

Jaffe had based her 1981 novel on inaccurate newspaper stories about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III from Michigan State University in 1979.

Nicholas Roth

Roth holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University, Artist Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, and M.M. and B.M. degrees from Indiana University, where he was also the recipient of the Performer’s Certificate.

Nicole Corriero

On March 27, 2005 Corriero tied the all-time collegiate record of 59 goals in a season, set by Michigan State's Mike Donnelly in 1986, with her first goal against St. Lawrence in the Frozen Four.

Quonset hut

Columbia Records' Studio B in Nashville was also called "The Quonset Hut", and Michigan State University's Quonset Village in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

Ramachandra Naidu Galla

He did his bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, then took a masters degree at the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela and a second masters degree at Michigan State University.

Richard J. Miller

Dick was graduated, A.B from Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan and earned an A.M. degree from Michigan State University.

Richard Merillat

It was donated to Michigan State University in 1996, the e largest gift-in-kind received by the university and by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Robert Dorigo Jones

In 1985, Dorigo Jones graduated from James Madison College at Michigan State University and went to work as a speechwriter for Wayne County Executive and future Michigan gubernatorial candidate, William Lucas.

Student governments in the United States

Universities that call their legislative councils "Student Assembly" include the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Wesleyan University, the College of William and Mary, Christopher Newport University, Penn State University, the State University of New York (SUNY), and Bentley University.

Teresa A. Sullivan

Sullivan received her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University's James Madison College, where she was asked to stay on as an intern in the office of the president by Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., then the president.

Tony Mandarich

Recruited to Michigan State University by defensive back coach Nick Saban, Mandarich played in the 1988 Rose Bowl, was named as a First-team All-American, an Outland Award finalist and a two-time Big Ten Lineman of the Year.

Weinstein-Jecklin Speech Center

Schools such as Michigan State University and Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, modeled their speech centers after the University of Richmond's.

Wilbur Olin Hedrick

"No living person in this community has contributed more to M.S.C. than you have in your long period of distinguished service," said John A. Hannah in reference to Hedrick's accomplishments over his lengthy employment of 47 years as a faculty member at M.S.C..

Wolde Harris

Wolde Harris is the son of Kingston College, Michigan State University and Jamaica soccer legend, Trevor "Jumpy" Harris.