MSU Research Update (video)

Remarks at a recent Michigan State University leadership meeting. MSU is currently #1 in the US in annual Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE + NSF (National Science Foundation) funding. There are ~30 institutions in the US with larger annual research expenditures than MSU, however in all but a few cases (e.g., MIT and UC Berkeley) this is due to a large medical research complex and significant NIH (National Institutes of Health) funding. I discuss MSU's strategy in this direction: a new biomedical research complex and new $450M McLaren hospital on our campus.