Stories that Define Us
Enriching stories of the impact and influence of the people of the MSU community
Student
- MSU leads talent development for an innovation economy through Green and White Council , Jan. 21, 2026
- A new way to serve Spartans: Spartan One-Stop opens to support students, Nov. 7, 2025
- Fifty incoming MSU students awarded full scholarships, June 24, 2025
- MSU celebrates new Multicultural Center with ribbon-cutting ceremony, Feb. 7, 2025
- Innovative instruction in MSU courses, Feb. 7, 2024
- MSU doubles down on student success, Nov. 16, 2023
- Spartan Family Connections: Empowering families for student success, July 19, 2023
- Burgess New Venture Challenge announces 2023 winners, May 19, 2023
- Apparel and textile design student wins trip to New York Fashion Week, March 15, 2023
Leadership
Faculty
- MSU named a top producer of Fulbright Scholars for 2025-26, Feb. 3, 2026
- MSU faculty named among world’s top researchers, Oct. 30, 2025
- MSU faculty earn prestigious national honors, June 25, 2025
- MSU scientists discover new sources for ‘the molecule that made the universe’, Feb. 12, 2025
- 3 MSU faculty named Senior Members of the 2024 National Academy of Inventors, Feb. 28, 2024
- A Spartan changing the way we fight cancer, Jan. 10, 2024
- Researcher gaining insight into rising concern over air pollution, July 26, 2023
- The hidden complexity of the Montmorency tart cherry genome, May 22, 2023
- Gov. Whitmer appoints MSU’s Wu to agriculture commission, March 16, 2023
Outreach
- Rx Kids expands unprecedented effort to support Michigan families, Jan. 14, 2026
- Extension Farm Stress program offers tools, training, resources, Nov. 4, 2025
- MSU’s Entrepreneur leadership camp inspires Michigan’s next generation of innovators, June 19, 2025
- Ingham County students benefit from MSU violence prevention program. Lincoln Park students are next, Feb. 11, 2025
- Addressing long-term plant agriculture challenges in Michigan, Feb. 7, 2024
- Student view: The future of the Hunger Free Campus Initiative, Dec. 6, 2023
- Growing success: Spartans support first-generation farmers, July 24, 2023
- Prevent 2 Protect project launches, aims to prevent mass violence by addressing mental health, May 18, 2023
- Spartan innovation feeds Michigan’s food and agriculture industry, March 21, 2023
Research
- MSU celebrates 60 years of plant science excellence, Jan. 5, 2026
- Self-heating, healing and bendable concrete installed at MSU, Oct. 10, 2025
- Spartan science protects the water we depend on, July 15, 2025
- Henry Ford + MSU researchers collaborate to shift pancreatic cancer outlook from bleak to bright, Feb. 4, 2025
- MSU hits research milestone, breaking previous records for total expenditures, Feb. 19, 2024
- MSU is helping shape the future of particle physics, Jan. 10, 2024
- New joint French-U.S. laboratory to advance fundamental nuclear physics and astrophysics research at MSU, July 18, 2023
- MSU hits record $759M in research expenditures in 2022, May 16, 2023
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center receives funding renewal, March 20, 2023
- MSU researchers to study Asian aquaculture with new NASA grant, Jan. 3, 2023
Priority/Initiative
- Leinweber Foundation commits $50M to name engineering and digital innovation center, Feb. 3, 2026
- Trustees green-light Engineering and Digital Innovation Center, Oct. 31, 2025
- MSU’s Ethics Institute co-hosts Generative AI ethics workshop with campus partners, July 10, 2025
- Paths to success: Empowering first-generation and transfer students at MSU, Jan. 29, 2025
- MSU and Detroit: Partnering for a better future, March 11, 2024
- MSU welcomes, honors inaugural 1855 Professorship recipients, Dec. 12, 2023
- Drawing high schoolers to STEM with plants and creativity, July 17, 2023
- Faculty and staff honored, celebrated at MSU Awards Convocation, May 9, 2023
- MSU receives nearly $1.5M in energy efficiency rebates, March 20, 2023