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New MSU STEM building now ready for move-in preparation
With an expected opening date of fall 2021, MSU’s STEM Teaching and Learning Facility building is nearing the end of a journey that started decades ago with the Shaw Lane Power Plant.
MSU receives national gold status as a bicycle-friendly university
MSU is the first university in Michigan to receive the designation.
MSU Celebrates 166th Founders Day
As we celebrate the 166th Founders Day, we can look back with pride on the role of university facilities in making MSU what it is today.
A Look Back: Moments of 2020
Landscape Services helps create outdoor laboratory for MSU students
A campus natural area that earlier this year was an overgrown patch alongside Trowbridge Road has transformed with help from IPF Landscape Services crews into an outdoor learning laboratory giving, students hands-on education in how to restore natural areas.
The Focus - December 2020
The December 2020 issue of The Focus e-newsletter from Infrastructure Planning and Facilities.
Get to know IPF: Tim Heckaman
Heckaman started his 17-year history with MSU in 1996 working for MSU Concessions. But it wasn’t until he returned to MSU some years later that his career with SSRC began.
IPF collaborations reinforce partners and stewardship values
Two partnerships developed between IPF and fellow MSU departments have demonstrated the power that collaboration brings to improving stewardship to the university.
300 new trees planted in 2020
The 300th tree of the year was planted Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at the intersection of Wilson and Chestnut roads.
Get to know IPF: Sarah Halsey
Three years ago, Sarah Halsey’s whole life changed. Up to that time, she was a self-proclaimed workaholic – working 60 to 70-hour weeks as a full-time manager at Quality Dairy, as well as an on-call at IPF working part time as a custodian. Then her son Tristen was born.