Department of Animal Science Funding Priorities
Animal Science academic program endowmentsTo enhance existing programs such as the Dairy Associates, Draft Horse, and Equine programs.
Equine Program Endowment$5 million is needed to establish an endowment to support programmatic efforts in curriculum, student enhancement opportunities (such as field trips and visiting lecturers), travel funds to enable students to participate in industry meetings, undergraduate research funds and funds to maintain a high quality farm operations on campus and at MSU Merillat Equine Center.
Dairy Associates Program EndowmentThe Dairy Associates program needs an endowment of $1million for programmatic enhancement of undergraduate research opportunities, developing a global perspective in the program and for industry involvement to further their education.
Dairy Program Endowment The Dairy program needs an endowment of $1million to strengthen curriculum, student enhancement opportunities such as field trips, industry involvement and undergraduate research opportunities, visiting lecturers and maintain high quality of farms to support programmatic efforts.
Beef Program EndowmentThe Beef program needs an endowment of $1million to strengthen curriculum, student enhancement opportunities such as field trips, industry involvement and undergraduate research opportunities, visiting lecturers and maintain high quality of farms to support programmatic efforts.
Swine Program EndowmentThe Swine program needs an endowment of $1million to strengthen curriculum, student enhancement opportunities such as field trips, industry involvement and undergraduate research opportunities, visiting lecturers and maintain high quality of farms to support programmatic efforts.
Poultry Program EndowmentThe Poultry program needs an endowment of $1million to strengthen curriculum, student enhancement opportunities such as field trips, industry involvement and undergraduate research opportunities, visiting lecturers and maintain high quality of farms to support programmatic efforts.
International Animal Welfare Studies Endowment This endowment would fund an international forum to enhance animal welfare through scientific studies.
Endowed visiting professorshipA Visiting Professorship program is needed to provide students, faculty members and professional staff fresh perspectives on the animal industry. Outstanding faculty and industry personnel filling this position on a short-term basis would interact with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members and industry representatives, and bring innovative research and teaching techniques, different philosophical perspectives and a more global view to the department. This will enable faculty members and students to interact and collaborate with faculty beyond MSU and provide the vision necessary to assure the program continues to meet the needs of the industry.
Endowed graduate fellowshipsEncourages excellence by giving graduate students unique educational experiences. Funds would be used for enrichment and intensification of training, to attend special meetings and workshops, assistantships for outstanding graduate students, and to bring seminar speakers to campus. Varying levels of endowments are needed from $50,000 to $1,000,000.
Endowed scholarshipsTen student scholarships of $30,000 each are needed for tuition and study abroad opportunities.
Visiting lectureship endowmentEndowing a Visiting Lecturer position would enable the department to bring outstanding speakers and lecturer to campus to present seminars to students and faculty and to also consult with the animal industries in the state.
Student housing at Dairy Teaching and Research Center: The MSU Dairy Teaching and Research Center provides an excellent opportunity for MSU students with a dairy interest to acquire valuable hands-on experience in dairy cattle management. To provide sufficient and safe housing for four student employees, a new duplex to house both male and female students is proposed which will house the students away from the animals.