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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYFrom its beginnings on the site where BeaumontTower now stands, the East Lansing campus hasgrown from 677 to 5,200 acres, and from threeto 545 buildings. Today, nearly 20,000 acres areused throughout Michigan for agricultural andnatural resources research and for education.MSU has more than 50,000 students from all83 counties in Michigan, all 50 states, and morethan 130 other countries. There are more thanone-half million Spartan alumni living aroundthe globe.Since its agricultural beginnings, MSU has grownto 17 degree-granting colleges ofering morethan 200 programs of study, including graduateand graduate professional education. TheHonors College attracts academically talentedscholars and enables these students to pursueindividualized, enriched programs of study.Research and other grants total nearly 600million in 2014–15. The top federal fundingagencies include the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE), the National Science Foundation, the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.Agency for International Development, the U.S.Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Departmentof Education, and the U.S. Department ofDefense. Other externally funded researchprograms include the MSU–U.S. DOE, PlantResearch Laboratory, the Center for AdvancingMicrobial Risk Assessment, the Great LakesBioenergy Research Center, the Energy andAutomotive Research Laboratory Centers,the Composite Vehicle Research Center, theU.S.–China Center for Research on EducationalExcellence, the Center for Advanced Study ofInternational Development, and the Center forInternational Business Education and Research.The National Superconducting CyclotronLaboratory is the premier rare isotope researchfacility in the nation. In December 2008, theU.S. DOE selected MSU to design and establishthe Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).The proposed 730 million facility will bringtogether an international community ofleading scientists. Their work will help unlockthe mysteries of the universe and promotebreakthrough applications for medicine,security, and industry.MSU Extension reaches into all 83 counties inMichigan to provide practical, university-basedknowledge. The AgBioResearch encompassesthe research of more than 300 scientists in anetwork of 13 research centers across the state.Their work ranges from agricultural production,alternative energy and biofuel production,food safety and environmental stewardship tochildhood obesity, community development, andthe quality of life of Michigan youth and families.University Outreach and Engagement connectsfaculty with external audiences and constituenciesto address community issues through researchand collaboration. MSU Global extends academicand professional degree and certifcate programsto of-campus learners.MSU is a national leader in education abroadamong U.S. public universities with more than275 programs on all continents in more than 60countries. Nearly 3,000 MSU students participatein education abroad each year.Michigan State University is a memberof the Association of American Universities,the Association of Public and Land-grantUniversities, the American Council on Education,the American Council of Learned Societies, theCouncil of Graduate Schools, and the Big TenAcademic Alliance (formerly the Committeeon Institutional Cooperation).9 COMMENCEMENT SPRING 2022Michigan State University, founded in 1855, isa leader in realizing the ideal of democratizingeducation and knowledge. Ofcially named theAgricultural College of the State of Michigan,it became the model for all land-grantinstitutions established by the Morrill Act,passed by Congress in 1862. The research andknowledge developed at land-grant institutionsprovides practical solutions that make adiference in the lives of individuals and incommunities. Now, as a major public researchuniversity with global reach, Michigan StateUniversity continues this tradition with itscommitment to advancing knowledge andtransforming lives across the state, the region,and around the world.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMichigan State University occupies theancestral, traditional and contemporary landsof the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacyof Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples. Inparticular, the university resides on land cededin the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. We recognizeMichigan’s 12 federally recognized NativeNations, historic Indigenous communitiesin Michigan, Indigenous individuals andcommunities who live here now, and those whowere forcibly removed from their homelands.In ofering this land acknowledgement, weafrm Indigenous sovereignty, history andexperiences.COMMENCEMENT SPRING 202210

CEREMONY LYRICSTHE STAR SPANGLED BANNERO, say, can you seeby the dawn’s early light,What so proudly we hailedat the twilight’s last gleaming,Whose broad stripes and bright stars,through the perilous fght,O’er the ramparts we watched,were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets’ red glare,the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the nightthat our fag was still there.O, say, does thatstar-spangled banner yet wave,O’er the land of the free,and the home of the brave.AMERICA THE BEAUTIFULO beautiful for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple mountain majestiesAbove the fruited plain!America! America!God shed his grace on theeAnd crown thy good with brotherhoodFrom sea to shining sea!When from these scenes we wander,and twilight shadows fade,Our mem’ry still will linger,where light and shadows played;In the evening oft we’ll gather,and pledge our faith anew,Sing our love for Alma Mater,and thy praises, MSU.MSU FIGHT SONG**On the banks of the Red Cedar,is a school that’s known to all;Its specialty is winning,and those Spartans play good ball;Spartan teams are never beaten,all through the game they fght;Fight for the only colors,Green and White.Go right thru’ for MSU,watch the points keep growing.Spartan teams are bound to win,they’re fghting with a vim.RAH! RAH! RAH!See their team is weakening,we’re going to win this game.Fight! Fight! Rah! Team, Fight!Victory for MSU.ALMA MATER*M.S.U., We love thy shadows,when twilight silence falls,Flushing deep and softly paling,o’er ivy-covered halls.Beneath the pines we’ll gather,to give our faith so true,Sing our love for Alma Mater,and thy praises, M.S.U.*The lyrics of Alma Mater were written by Bernard Traynor (MSC Athletic Department, 1925–1927). The melody isbased on Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. It was not until March 30, 1949, after a vote by the students, that thepopular song on campus known as the MSU Shadows was fnally adopted as the ofcial Alma Mater.**Lyrics by Francis Irvin Lankey (MSU Engineering, 1916).COMMENCEMENT SPRING 202211

UNIVERSITY MACEMichigan State University is pleased to includethe University mace in commencementceremonies. The introduction of the mace,at the 2005 Founders’ Day celebration andinauguration of MSU’s twentieth president,serves to commemorate the sesquicentennialcelebration. The University, founded in 1855,celebrated its 150th birthday in 2005. Themace was designed by University Relationsand produced by Physical Plant staf.Historically, the mace is a symbol of authoritydating from medieval times when knights carriedthem during processions with their kings. As thetradition grew, the mace became a ceremonialsymbol of peaceful leadership, and maces wereembellished with jewels and metals. Today, auniversity’s mace is carried before the presidentor chancellor and platform-party dignitaries atcommencement, inaugural, and other academicceremonial processions.The Michigan State University mace, 42 inchesin length, includes important institutionalsymbols in its fnial, crown, and shaft. Thefnial depicts the circular University seal, whichincludes an image of “Old College Hall.” Thisoak-carved seal derives from an 1869 StateBoard of Agriculture (now, Board of Trustees)authorization for a woodcut to be used asthe frontispiece of the college academiccatalog. College Hall, built in 1856, was thefrst instructional building erected in the UnitedStates for the teaching of scientifc agriculture.When it collapsed in 1918, John Beaumont (classof 1882) provided funds to erect BeaumontTower in 1928 at the same location. Thetower stands as a symbol of Michigan State’sbeginnings as the frst land-grant collegededicated to teaching “agriculture and themechanic arts” with a “liberal and practicalcurriculum.”COMMENCEMENT SPRING 202212 The mace’s crown is trimmed with a maplesamara and acorn pattern carved from walnut,a pattern drawn from the “Michigan StateCollege” limestone relief at the Abbot Roadand other campus entrances. An image ofBeaumont Tower lies in the crown’s oak center.Below the crown is the cylindrical shaft, whosealternating, horizontal oak and walnut bandsdescend to a brass tip. Its oak is purported tobe “Beaumont oak,” that is, from one of theoriginal saplings surrounding College Hall. Itswalnut is from a tree removed to clear landfor the Wharton Center for Performing Artsin 1982.In its soaring verticality, Beaumont Towercontinues to inspire the MSU community andis an appropriate symbol for the MSU mace. AsPresident Robert S. Shaw (1928–1941) statedat the tower’s dedication, it has served as “aunifying factor” to remind us, even throughour individual activities, of the overall missionof Michigan State University to inspire us by“appealing to many of the better things inus” and to encourage us to “live up to higherstandards, scholastically, socially, morally,and spiritually in all of our afairs.”

ACADEMIC ATTIREThree types of gowns are indicated by the code.Those worn by the bachelors have long, pointedsleeves. Those worn by masters have long,closed sleeves with the arc of a circle near thebottom. Doctoral gowns are faced with velvet.The sleeves are full, round, and open with threebars of velvet on each sleeve. The velvet facingof the bars on the sleeves may be black or thesame color as the binding of the hood.College of Agricultureand Natural ResourcesForestry, PackagingMaizeRussetResidential College inthe Arts and HumanitiesWhiteCollege of Arts and LettersFine ArtsPhilosophyThe Eli BroadCollege of BusinessDrabCollege of CommunicationArts and SciencesJournalismSpeechHoods are made of material identicalwith the gown and are lined in the ofcialacademic color of the institution conferringthe degree (e.g., green and white for MSU).If the institution has more than one color, thechevron is used to introduce the second color.Colored velvet or velveteen binds the hoodsand indicates the department of faculty towhich the degree pertains.College of EducationThe color of the velvet of the hood is distinctiveof the subject to which the degree pertains. Forexample, the trimming for the degree of Masterof Science in Agriculture should be maize,representing agriculture, rather than goldenyellow, representing science. Generally, thecode for the velvet of the hood is the same aslisted for tassels.College of MusicAt Michigan State University, it is customaryto identify the candidates graduating fromthe diferent areas of study by tassels ofthe ofcial color as established by theIntercollegiate Code. Candidates graduatingfrom the Honors College wear a white stolewith the initials “HC.” Candidates graduating“With Honor” or “With High Honor” wear agold braid.WhiteBrownDark BluePeacock BlueCrimsonSilver GrayLight BlueCollege of EngineeringOrangeCollege of Human MedicinePublic HealthGreenSalmon PinkJames Madison CollegeCitronCollege of LawPurpleLyman Briggs CollegeCollege of Natural ScienceGolden YellowPinkGolden YellowCollege of NursingCollege of Osteopathic MedicineCollege of Social ScienceEconomicsCollege of Veterinary MedicineApricotGreenCitronCopperDark Gray13 COMMENCEMENT SPRING 2022In 1895, the Intercollegiate Commission, a groupof leading American educators, introduced anacademic costume code which by design ofgowns and hoods would indicate the variousdegrees, and which by colors would identify thevarious faculties.

HONORARY DEGREESCOMMENCEMENT SPRING 202214 Alumnus Eli Broad, for whom MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business is named, is a renownedbusiness leader who built two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up. Not only is he asuccessful entrepreneur, but Mr. Broad and his wife, Edythe, are engaged in many importantphilanthropic endeavors. In fall 2002, Michigan State University proudly awarded Mr. Broad anhonorary doctorate of humanities.Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, with a total gift of 28 million, have made contemporary artavailable to the entire Michigan State University community and those who visit us from aroundthe globe. The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum ofcially opened November 10, 2012. The worldclass art museum is designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. For informationabout the facility, exhibitions, and programs, please visit broadmuseum.msu.edu.We tell our graduates to “Come Home Often.” We hope that you, and your family, will come homeoften and include a visit to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum.Photo above: Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum.

HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONSYou are a highly accomplished business leaderwho helped millions of individuals securefnances to achieve their dreams.You are the Founder and Chairman of RocketCompanies and Quicken Loans. As the CEOof the nation’s largest mortgage lender, youdeveloped a great community for the RockFamily of companies including its 100 afliatedcompanies across the country that employmore than 30,000 team members.Your dedication to building a home for theteam members within the company alsoextends to your customers. In 2020, Detroitbased Quicken Loans closed 320 billiondollars in home loan volume across all 50states and, for the 11th consecutive year,earned J.D. Power’s highest rating for clientsatisfaction among all U.S. mortgage lenders.You are an active investor in fntech, sportsrelated and consumer direct companies. Youfounded the Detroit Venture Partners to fundstartup and early-stage technology companies.In 2016, you co-founded Detroit-based StockX,the world’s frst ‘stock market of things’,combining the visible, liquid, anonymous, andtransparent benefts of a stock market withthe online consumer secondary market. Yourcreativity in business and commitment in theventure capital frm truly motivates youngentrepreneurs.To this day, you pursue the innovation anddevelopment of America by moving theRock Family of Companies to Detroit’scentral business district to help lead thetransformation of a great American city.For your contributions to your local, stateand national communities, and continuoussupport and inspiration for the next generationof leaders, I am pleased to award you thehonorary Doctor of Business degree fromMichigan State University.15COMMENCEMENT SPRING 2022DAN GILBERT

HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONSJENNIFER GILBERTYou are an inspiring business leader, andinnovative problem-solver who has devotedyour career to building stronger communities.Your innovative ideas and philanthropic hearthave created many positive changes not onlyfor your immediate community, but across thenation.With your academic background of a Bachelorof Arts in Interior design from Michigan StateUniversity, your passion to improve livesthrough creativity has been well cultivated.You founded Doodle Home, a digital platformfor residential interior designers in 2015.As a founder of Amber Engine, you havecontributed to making product data that iseasy to manage for businesses of all sizes andacross industries. Its services and solutionstechnology has brought accessibility to manybusinesses.You serve as the Founder and Creative Directorof Detroit-based POPHOUSE to lead thecommercial design frm that specializes inutilizing data and research to provide strategicCOMMENCEMENT SPRING 202216 solutions for workforces of all sizes. Utilizingyour strong expertise in interior design, youcontinue to pursue societal issues and seeklasting solutions.As the President of NF Forward, co-founderof the Gilbert Family Foundation, and theChair of the Board of Governors of theCranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum,your philanthropy provides lasting supportand economic mobility to communities.It encourages the involvement of art toelevate and inspire public spaces to bringjoy to people’s lives. It provides an ongoingfocus on enhancements to the research anddevelopment of a Neurofbromatosis cure. Andit lifts up every resident of a great Americancity.For your contribution from the local to nationallevels that continues to inspire, support, andimprove the lives of countless individuals, Iam pleased to award you the honorary Doctorof Business degree from Michigan StateUniversity.

HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONSYou are a highly accomplished business leaderand have devoted your life to public service.You have utilized your fnancial backgroundto help multiple corporations and have givenback through your countless philanthropicendeavors.Your educational achievements includegraduating summa cum laude with abachelor’s degree in Chemistry from CentralState University, a Master of BusinessAdministration Degree in Finance andMarketing from Stanford University, and aPh.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from MichiganState University. You also served as a Captainin the United States Army.As a Global Vice President and GeneralManager of Global Customer ServiceOperations and Vice President of GlobalService Business Strategy at Ford MotorCompany, you actualized Ford’s worldwideaftermarket and service business strategiesthat have been used to aid Ford Motorcompany’s success.You have shared your expertise a consultant onAutomotive Practices for Deloitte Consultingfor many years. You were on the board ofdirectors for multiple corporations includingthe Detroit Financial Advisory Board, theRockefeller Foundation, the Automotive Hall ofFame, Michigan State University Foundation,and numerous other prestigious foundations.As one of the members on MSU’s InvestmentAdvisory Subcommittee, your insight helpedguide Michigan State’s investment strategy,policy and investment opportunities, whichhelped rank Michigan State in the top 15percent within the Cambridge Associatesuniverse.The philanthropic duties that you haveachieved are laudable, creating multiplescholarships and lectureships for MichiganState Students, d

land-grant university. On this—and other markers—is a band of alternating samara and acorns derived from maple and oak trees commonly found on campus. This pattern is repeated on the University Mace (see page 13). Inside Cover: Pattern of alternating samara and acorns. Michigan State University photos provided by University Communications.