DID YOU KNOW…
- Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, grew up in East Lansing, the son of an MSU computer scientist then earned his degree in computer science at U-M. Today he’s bringing jobs back to Michigan. One of Page’s U-M classmates in the 1980s, Tony Fadell, led the team that developed the iPod.
- U-M recently developed the cancer fighting drug Bexxar for patients with advanced-stage lymphoma—a cancer previously considered to be incurable. U-M doctors found 95 percent of patients responded to the treatment and 75 percent had a complete response—meaning, no evidence of cancer remained after treatment.
- After World War II, the first U-M Phoenix project was launched to create a living memorial to U-M students, faculty and staff who fought in World War II. With donations from Ford Motor Co. and others, they built one of the first nuclear power plants on a college campus. Over the years, the people who worked at that lab developed the technology that would later be used to decommission nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War. The reactor was eventually closed and the new Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project today focuses on developing alternative energy.
- Wayne State researchers are developing technology to allow biopsies to be done `“virtually” to discover whether tissue is cancerous without having to remove it from your body.
- MSU dairy professor G. Malcolm Trout invented the process for homogenization of milk in the 1930s while MSU’s William Beal performed the first documented genetic crosses to produce hybrid corn, which greatly increased yields, in 1877.
- In 2004, MSU researchers at the MSU Cyclotron produced and observed a new isotope of the element geranium while a consortium involving MSU, the University of North Carolina and the government of Brazil broke ground on the new Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope in Chile to study the formation of the galaxy.
- U-M researchers pioneered development of the first flu vaccines, conducted the clinical trials for the Polio vaccine and more recently developed Flu Mist.
- Together, the three universities have nearly 1 million living alumni…
- If the U-M in Ann Arbor were a private company, its more than $4 billion annual revenue would make it the 20th biggest company in the state, bigger than Steelcase, Domino’s or Compuware…
- MSU has offices and staff are in every one of Michigan’s 83 counties…
- Wayne State University is the 10th largest employer in Detroit, with nearly 2,800 faculty members and almost 5,000 additional employees who provide a range of valuable services…
- Seventy percent of University of Michigan students receive some form of financial aid…
- MSU has one of the nation’s three largest study abroad programs, sending 2,500 students each year to more than 60 countries on every continent…
- With more than 1,000 students, the Wayne State University School of Medicine is the largest single-campus medical school in the United States…
- U-M was first to establish a program in human genetics… (1940)
- Wayne State University’s net economic benefit to Southeastern Michigan’s economy totals more than $1 billion annually…
- MSU received more grants from the first round of Michigan’s 21st Century Jobs Fund than any other organization. MSU researchers were awarded 11 grants worth $13.1 million, and had stakes in 12 more of the 61 projects funded…
- Three-quarters of the students attending the Law School at U-M come here from other states…
- The life-saving AIDS drug AZT was developed by Jerome Horowitz, a professor of internal medicine at Wayne State University…
- Financial aid provided by the three universities totals nearly $750 million per year…
- MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory is the nation’s premier rare isotope research facility and attracts some of the world’s best nuclear scientists…
- U-M was first to provide instruction in aeronautical engineering… (1914)
- Adults with bachelor’s degrees earn an average of $23,000 more per year than those with high school diplomas, according to the U.S. Census Bureau… And people with advanced degrees earn $26,000 more than that! (2005 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC).
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- Wayne State’s Damon J. Keith Law Collection brings together for the first time the substantial historical accomplishments of African American lawyers and judges…
- U-M was first to establish a school of pharmacy at a public university… (1876)
- MSU ranks in the top five universities for producing Peace Corps volunteers since the program's establishment in 1961…
- Wayne State’s alumni include United States Representative John Conyers '57, ’58: Casey Kasem ’57, disc jockey, radio personality and host of American Top 40; Jerry Linenger ’81, astronaut who spent five months living on the Russian space station Mir; Helen Thomas ’42, dean of the White House press corps; and Tom Wilson ’71, general manager of Palace Sports and Entertainment, which includes the Detroit Pistons professional basketball team…
- Academics ranked MSU as the 7th best place in the nation to work, according to a recent survey by The Scientist magazine…
- U-M was the first to own and operate its own hospital…(1869)
- A third of all the practicing physicians in Michigan received all or part of their medical training at Wayne State University…
- TechTown, Wayne State’s 43-acre research and technology park, welcomed more than a dozen new tenants in 2005… The park is expected to attract 60 businesses and create 1,600 jobs.
- Without a drug developed at MSU, cycling champion Lance Armstrong might not have beat his cancer. Cisplatin has been one of the world’s most effective anticancer drugs since its invention by MSU researcher Bernard Rosenberg in the 1970s, and is widely used today to treat testicular and ovarian cancers…
- The U-M Health System serves more than 1.5 million patients each year…
- The University of Michigan contributes nearly 66,000 jobs to the Michigan economy, more than $3.5 billion in personal income and $271 million in state tax revenue, according to a study by economists at the U-M Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR)…
- Between 1845 and June 30, 2004, the University of Michigan granted 643,582 degrees…
- U.S. News & World Report ranked MSU’s graduate programs in elementary and secondary education the best in the nation for the 12th year…
- U-M was the first to be supported solely by public funds, the first public university established in the Northwest Territories of the early United States…
- Of the 5,800 students that Wayne State graduates each year, an estimated 2,200 would not have attended a university if Wayne State did not exist…
- Away from Broadway, MSU’s Wharton Center for the Performing Arts presents more Broadway shows than anywhere else in America…
- U-M was first to establish a graduate-level program in nuclear engineering… (1953)
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