List of Michigan State University people

Michigan State University alumni number around 634,300 worldwide. Famous Spartans include NBA star Earvin "Magic" Johnson; MLB stars Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey, Robin Roberts; NFL stars Brad Van Pelt, Bubba Smith, Herb Adderley and Joe DeLamielleure; actors James Caan and Robert Urich; Evil Dead trilogy director Sam Raimi; LGBT rights activist and internet personality Tyler Oakley; former Michigan governors James Blanchard, Fred M. Warner, and John Engler; former U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Spencer Abraham; and billionaires Eli Broad, Reinhold Schmieding, Drayton McLane, Jr., Harley Hotchkiss, Thomas H. Bailey, Tom Gores, Andrew Beal and Dan Gilbert.

Michigan State's faculty and academic staff number around 4,500 researchers. Throughout the years, notable researchers have included William J. Beal, who developed hybrid corn; psychologist Erich Fromm; G. Malcolm Trout, who invented the process for the homogenization of milk; and Barnett Rosenberg, the discoverer of cancer-fighting drug cisplatin.

In addition to faculty, Michigan State has around 6,000 administrative and non-academic staff. This includes the university's governing board, the board of trustees. Elected by statewide referendum every two years, trustees have eight-year terms, with two of the eight elected every other year. As of 2007, the board is made up of three Republicans and five Democrats, and has a 4:4 gender balance.

Other notable staff members include President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Athletic Director J Batt, men's basketball coach Tom Izzo, ice hockey coach Adam Nightingale, and football coach Jonathan Smith. __NOTOC__ Table of contentsNotable alumni:

Academia: Education • Medicine • Science • Social science : Cinema • Journalism • Literature • Music • Television & radio • Visual arts Business: Consumer goods • Finance • Industry : Activism • Diplomacy • Law • Public office : Baseball • Basketball • Football • Ice hockey • Running • Soccer • Olympians • MMA:

Notable faculty: • Science • Social science Current administration: • Head coaches Former administration: Former presidentsNotesExternal links

Notable alumni

Academia

Administration

Name Degree Year Comments ReferenceDavid Kpakpoe AcquayeB.S. 1952professor, first head of the Soil Science, dean of agriculture, University of Ghana Debra D. AustinB.A.former chancellor, State University System of FloridaJacquelynn BaasB.A. 1971curator, cultural historian, writer, and director emeritus, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveHugh P. BakerB.S.1901president, University of Massachusetts Amherst; dean, New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse UniversitySian BeilockPh.D.2003president, Dartmouth CollegeWarren W. BrandtB.S.1944first president, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityFrank A Buckless B.A.1981dean, Poole College of Management, NC StateKenyon ButterfieldB.S.1891president, University of Rhode Island, UMass, and Michigan State University, appointed to the Country Life Commission by President Theodore RooseveltAntoinette Candia-BaileyM.A.2001vice president for student affairs at Lincoln University, 2023Oscar CluteB.S.1862president, Michigan State, Florida Agricultural College (predecessor to University of Florida), ordained ministerRichard A. CosierB.A. 1969dean emeritus, Krannert School of Management, PurdueWilliam H. CunninghamB.B.A., M.B.A.1966, 1967former chancellor, University of Texas SystemPaul D'AnieriB.A.1986vice president and provost, University of California, RiversideGrover C. DillmanB.S.1913president, Michigan Tech University, 1935–1956Jeffrey DockingB.A.1983president, Adrian CollegeKristie L. Ebi B.S. 1972 founder, former director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington School of Public HealthGlenn GoerkePh.D.1962former president/chancellor, University of Houston, University of Houston–Clear Lake, University of Houston–Victoria, and Indiana University EastLloyd Vincent HackleyB.A.former chancellor, Fayetteville State UniversityWendy Hensel B.A. 1992president, University of HawaiʻiStanley O. IkenberryM.A., Ph.D.1957, 1960former president (twice), University of IllinoisCharles L. IngersollB.S.second president (1882–91), Colorado State University, credited with broadening and liberalizing the school's formerly narrow, vocational curriculumAnne Khademian B.A. M.P.A. political scientist, executive director of the Universities at Shady Grove, the University System of Maryland Charles KieslerB.A.1958former chancellor, University of MissouriWilliam Edward LaveryB.A.1953former president, Virginia TechJay Robert McColl B.S.1890dean of engineering, University of DetroitCharles McKennyB.S.1881former president, Central Michigan University, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Eastern Michigan UniversityWilliam H. SewellB.A., M.A.1933, 1934former chancellor, University of Wisconsin–MadisonBernard Sliger B.A., M.A., Ph.D.1949, 1950. 1955economist, former president, Florida State UniversityJames D. SpanioloB.A.1968former president, University of Texas at ArlingtonTeresa A. SullivanB.A.1970former president, University of VirginiaDwight B. Waldoattended1881–82first president, Western Michigan UniversityKim A. Wilcox B.S. 1976chancellor, University of California, Riverside, former Michigan State University provost Marcellette G. WilliamsB.A. M.A. Ph.D. 1968former chancellor, first woman, of the University of Massachusetts

Biology

Name Degree Year Comments ReferenceEdgar Anderson B.S. 1918 botanical geneticist Liberty Hyde Bailey B.S.1882 botanist, horticulturist, the "father of modern horticulture", author, philosopher"Liberty Hyde Bailey – A Man for All Seasons". Cornell University Library. p. 7. Retrieved April 27, 2007.Charles Fuller BakerB.S.1892professor of Biology, Botany; college deanFrank BentonB.S.1879entomologist educator, researcher, author, beekeeping innovator Charles E. Bessey B.S.1869 pioneer 19th-century botany educator; former president, American Association for the Advancement of Science"Charles Edwin Bessey ". History of Iowa State: People of Distinction. Retrieved April 27, 2007.Robert L. CarrollB.S.1959vertebrate paleontologist, former director of Redpath Museum, McGill UniversityWilliam James ClenchB.S.1921former curator of the Mollusk Collection, Harvard Museum of Comparative ZoologyLeon Jacob Cole attended1890sgeneticist and ornithologist, nicknamed the "father of American bird banding" Albert John CookB.S.1862zoology, entomology educator; chairman, California State Commission of HorticultureLarry DaltonB.S.1965chemist best known for polymeric nonlinear electro-optics; recipient of Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and NIH Research Career Development AwardArnold L. DemainB.S. M.S. 1949 1950former professor of microbiology, MIT, founder and head of the Department of Fermentation Microbiology, Merck & Co, world-leading industrial microbiologistLyster H. DeweyB.S. 1888botanist, expert at USDA researching various fibre plants, most notably hemp (cannabis) C. Kurt DewhurstB.A.1970curator and folklorist, director emeritus of the Michigan State University Museum, past president, American Folklore Society Michael DonoghueB.A.1976vice president, Evelyn Hutchinson Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale; former director of the university's Peabody Museum of Natural History; elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2005Mary K. Firestone B.S M.S. Ph.D.member, National Academy of Sciences, professor of soil microbiology in the Department of Environmental Studies, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley Charles Christian GeorgesonB.S.1877founding director of Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station, namesake of Georgeson Botanical Garden at University of AlaskaAlfred Gurdon Gulley B.S. 1868University of Connecticut revered horticulture professor; the university administration building bears his nameByron HalstedB.S.1871botany educator, former president of the Botanical Society of AmericaUlysses P. HedrickB.S.1893botanist, horticulturalist Perry G. Holden M.S.1895 first professor of Agronomy in the US (1896)"Agricultural Collections Guide ". ISU Library Special Collections. Retrieved April 21, 2007.Patricia Hunt B.A. 1977Meyer Distinguished Professor in the School of Molecular Bioscience, Washington State UniversityWalter Stephen Judd B.S. M.S. 1973 1974botanist and taxonomist, distinguished professor in the Department of Botany, University of Florida Ezra J. KrausB.S.1907former chair of Botany Department, University of Chicago Minakata Kumagusu did not graduate naturalist, known for study of slime molds in early 20th-century Japan"Going Abroad ". Minakata Kumugusu Museum. Retrieved January 9, 2008.Amy K. LeBlanc D.V.M. 1999veterinary oncologist and biologist, director of the Comparative Oncology Program at the National Cancer InstituteHenry J. OostingM.S.1927ecologist at Duke UniversityJohn J. Pipoly IIIB.S.1978 botanistThomas D. SharkeyB.S. Ph.D.1974 1980distinguished professor, biochemistry and microbiology, Michigan State University James W. ToumeyB.S.1889botanist, co-founder, early dean of Yale School of Forestry; namesake of the cactus genus Toumeya and New Hampshire's Yale-Toumey ForestSamuel Mills TracyB.S., M.S.1868, 1871botany educator; donator and founder of Tracy Herbarium at Texas A&MTruman G. YunckerB.S.1915bacteriologist, botanist; chair of Botany Department, DePauw University; appointed curator of DePauw Herbarium, later named the T.G. Yuncker Herbarium

Business

Name Degree Year Comments ReferenceDeborah A. Cobb-ClarkB.A.1983Australian economist, professor, University of SydneyScott DeRuePh.D. former dean of the Ross School of Business at the University of MichiganConnel Fullenkamp B.A. 1987economics professor at Duke University, financial trainer of US banks and corporations for the International Monetary Fund John Thomas Mentzer M.B.A, Ph.D.Chancellor's Professor and Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence in Business, University of TennesseeSue Schurman B.S. M.A.1969 1977distinguished professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, former dean (2011–2015)

Education

Name Degree Year Comments ReferenceWilliam Chandler Bagley B.S. 1895 educator, pedagogy reformer championing Essentialism (as opposed to the Progressivism championed by John Dewey); founder, School and Society; editor-in-chief, Journal of the National Education Association, 1920–25Christine L. BorgmanB.A.1973Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLACatherine Corrigan B.S. 1995 meteorite curator at the SmithsonianEugene DavenportB.S., M.S.1878, 1884agriculture educator; invited in 1891 by the government of Brazil to duplicate Michigan State with "Little Lansings"; dean of University of Illinois, College of Agriculture Eduard C. Lindeman B.A.1911 pioneer and champion of adult education"Eduard Lindeman ". National-Louis University. Retrieved April 21, 2007.Myrtle Craig MowbrayB.S.1907first African-American woman to graduate from MSU; professor at historically black colleges and universities in Kansas and MissouriRoy PeaB.A.1974education scholar, Rhodes ScholarIone Genevieve Shadduck M.A., PhD educator, women's rights activist, and attorneyMarta TiendaB.A.1972director, Graduate Studies; former director, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; TIAA trustee since 2005Boyce Courtney Williams M.A., Ph.D. vice president of the NCATE

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