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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.
MSU's Office of the University Ombudsperson is the oldest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country. [4] Its most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were: [5] Advertising (565) Biology/Biological Sciences (477) Psychology (402) Exercise Science and Kinesiology (388)
In 1961, the Michigan State Board of Trustees decided to begin a two-year medical program at Michigan State University. Several grants aided the development of the program. [8] Michigan State University appointed Andrew D. Hunt, MD as the first dean of the College of Human Medicine in 1964. [8] [9]
The Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) is the all-university undergraduate student government of Michigan State University. [194] It was unusual among university student governments for its decentralized bicameral structure, [195] and the relatively non-existent influence of the Greek system. The structure has since ...
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."
Stanford's Human Biology Program [1] is an undergraduate major; it integrates the natural and social sciences in the study of human beings. It is interdisciplinary and policy-oriented and was founded in 1970 by a group of Stanford faculty (Professors Dornbusch, Ehrlich, Hamburg, Hastorf, Kennedy, Kretchmer, Lederberg, and Pittendrigh). [2]
On September 19, 1969, Michigan State University accepted the legislative mandate and agreed to create a new osteopathic medical school on their campus, [7] making it the first osteopathic medical school based at a public university. [9] In 1971, MCOM was moved to East Lansing and was given its current name of MSUCOM.
In the United States, undergraduate programs toward a bachelor's degree often follow a liberal arts model, and have a set group or type of coursework (sometimes called distribution or core requirements) together with a specialization, called a major—a double major would usually complete one set of the core requirements and two sets of the ...