SROP - Summer Research Opportunities Program
Campus Tours for Early Arrivals
Arriving early? Please take the opportunity to get to know more about MSU!
We have arranged five tours to appeal to a wide range of interests. Buses will take you to and from your destination of choice. Each tour has a limited number of participants so please pre-register for tour on the CIC/SROP Conference Registration site.
To probe the mysteries of an atom’s nucleus is to seek fundamental answers about how the elements were formed and what keeps nuclei together. Nuclear scientists pursue these big mysteries by smashing and examining the tiniest of particles. Collisions at half the speed of light create new isotopes in a billionth of a trillionth of one second. To do this, researchers need particle accelerators, state-of-the-art computers, and specially designed equipment. Enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour of a world-class rare isotope laboratory where nuclei are accelerated, smashed, filtered and studied.
Please note: Sandals should not be worn for the cyclotron tour.
Veterinary science courses have been taught at MSU since the institution’s founding in 1855. The College of Veterinary Medicine was formally established as a four-year, degree-granting program in 1910. Today, the college includes four biomedical science departments — microbiology and molecular genetics, pathobiology and diagnostic investigation, pharmacology and toxicology, and physiology; two clinical departments -- large-animal clinical sciences and small-animal clinical sciences; two service units -- the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health; and several research centers.
The tour will focus on the large and small-animal clinical facilities. In addition, information about the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree program, the college also offers certificate and bachelor’s degree programs in veterinary technology, as well as advanced degree (master’s and doctor of philosophy) programs will be provided.
Come explore the connecting relationships between veterinary medicine, human medicine, agriculture and the science professions. You may be pleasantly surprised to learn how the concept of one medicine is impacting medicine and society.
As part of the Dairy Foods Complex at Michigan State University, the Dairy Store helps meet the teaching, research and outreach needs of the University community and dairy food industry. While operated as an outlet for products manufactured in our Dairy Plant, the Dairy Store also is a focal point for educational and public relations activities for the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
The 24-minute self-guided tour of the Dairy Food Complex, located in Anthony Hall, houses the Dairy Store, the Dairy Plant, the Dairy Chemistry, Dairy Microbiology and Dairy/Food Rheology research laboratories as well as the new Food Chemistry teaching laboratory. The tour is broken into 3 segments each 8-minutes in length. There is a section on the fluid industry, making ice cream and making cheese. The tour concludes at the Dairy Store where ice cream, cheese and other items are available for purchase.
Enjoy a wonderful walking tour of the beautiful W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, an outdoor laboratory for the study and appreciation of plants. It is one of the principal centers of plant interest within the arboretum-like campus of Michigan State University, where more than 2000 different taxa can be found. This garden, established in 1873 by Professor William James Beal, is the oldest continuously operated university botanical garden of its kind in the United States.
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Tour information coming soon The Michigan State University Museum is a public steward for nearly a million objects and specimens of cultural and natural history from around the world. The self-guided walking tour will take you through the Museum’s exhibitions. Current Special Exhibitions include Quilts and Human Rights (Main Floor Gallery), The Federal Art Project: Supporting Good Artists in Bad Times (Heritage Gallery), and The International Print Portfolio: Artists' Expressions of Universal Human Rights (West Gallery). The Museum also features Habitat Hall featuring complete, mounted skeletons of the great Jurassic dinosaurs Allosaurus and Stegosaurus, Hall of Animal Diversity, Hall of Evolution, Hall of World Cultures, and Heritage Hall.