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The College of Natural Science (NatSci) at Michigan State University is home to 27 departments and programs in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences. [1]The college averages $83M in research expenditures annually and claims to have more than 6,500 undergraduate majors and nearly 1,000 graduate students.
Michigan State University Press is the publishing arm of Michigan State University. It traces its origins to the late 1940s when the Michigan State Board of Agriculture established a publishing program at Michigan State College (MSC). President John A. Hannah made a recommendation on publications to a special committee. In response, the ...
In 2013, Merz moved to Michigan State University as a professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departments. [1] He was the director of the Institute of Cyber-enabled Research (2013-2019) and is the Joseph Zichis Chair in Chemistry and a university distinguished professor. [12]
The college then became Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. [33] During the 1950s, Michigan State University was the "preeminent" example of a group of former agricultural colleges which had already evolved into state colleges and were attempting to become research universities. [34]
The University of Michigan, founded in 1817–twenty years before Michigan's statehood–is the state's oldest university [1] [2] and remained the only university in the state until the 20th century, when Detroit College became the University of Detroit in 1911 and Wayne State University achieved "university" status in 1933 following the ...
The college is named in honor of Lyman James Briggs, who attended Michigan State Agricultural College from 1889 to 1893.. Lyman Briggs College addresses the modern dilemma described by C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures" by educating STEM students in the natural sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences, effectively attempting to create a curriculum of "liberal sciences."
He is now Professor Emeriti of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico and Michigan State University. Prior to his move to the University of New Mexico in 1994, he was an instructor and assistant professor at Princeton (1959 –1966), then an associate professor and professor at Michigan State University.
The program was to draw strongly on related disciplines such as biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, microbiology, and others. In 1966, personnel of the new program - called MSU-AEC Plant Research Laboratory at that time - moved into their new quarters in the Plant Biology Laboratories building at Michigan State University.