Category: Thank You!

MSU is a leading research institution, especially when it comes to sustainability. MSU Sustainability represents the collective efforts of Spartans, including students, alumni, faculty and staff, to learn more about the environment and how to preserve it. Thank you, MSU Sustainability and Be Spartan Green for your never-ending efforts to promote awareness about environmental concerns and MSU’s work to research and formulate solutions to environmental challenges. And of course, thank you for encouraging all Spartans to establish eco-friendly habits, such as recycling, reducing energy usage and buying local food, in their everyday lives. These daily efforts, multiplied thousands of times over, amount to an extraordinary environmental effect!

In addition, MSU Sustainability has worked especially hard to celebrate Earth Month this April by educating and engaging with Spartans and community members with videos, Community ReUse Days, and additional events.

Thank you, MSU Sustainability, for keeping Spartans proud of MSU’s environmental initiatives and for helping us to go green every day!

We might have thought we’d escape with an easy winter this year, but Mother Nature is always prepared to throw us a friendly reminder: this is still Michigan. Fortunately for everyone at Michigan State, the recent onslaughts of snowfall have been no match for Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, and that deserves a hearty thank you from Human Resources and the rest of the MSU community! We admire your dedication to keeping our roads and sidewalks safe. We also are always thankful for the alerts and warnings that go out to keep our community informed, the work you do to keep our campus beautiful year-round, and the construction you are a part of that is constantly improving our campus. Quite frankly, we are glad for all that you do!

The IPF road crews’ willingness and commitment to be up before the sun and clear the danger from our paths is not something everyone can do, and we appreciate you for it. Thank you Infrastructure Planning and Facilities!

In an age in which almost all information is published and accessed online, it is essential that everyone can interact with web pages. Unfortunately, those with disabilities are often excluded from critical online information because of inaccessible websites or documents.

MSU has taken the initiative to ensure that all university digital content is accessible so all students, faculty, staff and members of the MSU community share equal opportunity in receiving and interacting with it. Digital Content and Accessibility, a part of MSU Information Technology, works to accomplish this goal. This team of staff and students, along with the cross-department Web Accessibility Working Group and the ADA Coordinator, all work together to provide an abundance of resources and tutorials that MSU faculty and staff can use to ensure that the new content they are creating is accessible and existing inaccessible content can be altered to uphold accessibility standards.

Every department at MSU has a different audience, structure, and digital content for their website. This is why each department is developing a five-year plan to best prioritize the order in which content is made fully accessible. Digital Content and Accessibility is here to help MSU staff throughout this process.

Learn more about accessibility, resources, tutorials, templates and policies at webaccess.msu.edu. You can also email webaccess@msu.edu.

Thank you, MSU IT, WAWG, and the ADA Coordinator, for helping MSU become a model for accessibility!

Abrams Planetarium has been entertaining and educating audiences for more than 50 years. From school field trips to midday relaxation hours, this MSU destination never fails to delight its visitors. Abrams Planetarium uses its state-of-the-art Digistar projector not only for incredible astronomical shows, but also family shows, the homecoming Spartan Spectacular, ambient mood settings and much more.

The planetarium goes the extra mile to serve faculty and staff at MSU.  In partnership with Health4U, it hosts Relaxing Under the Stars, The Healing Power of Guided Imagery and the monthly live concert series Rest with Music. All events occur from noon to 1 p.m. on weekdays for employees to unwind in the middle of their workdays.

Thank you, Abrams Planetarium, for going to astronomical heights to serve the MSU community!

It’s been a month of settling in, meeting new people and adjusting to the rigor of academics for new and returning students. The semester kicked off with the packed, crazy and exciting series of days that is student move-in. This event is highly coordinated, requiring intensive planning to ensure a smooth move-in process for everyone.

Residence Education and Housing Services has been there to provide students with outstanding residence halls, engaging activities and a wide array of resources that are especially important for freshmen. For many in this group, this has been the longest time they have been away from home, which makes the efforts of REHS that much more vital to ensure they feel welcome in this new environment.

Thank you, REHS, for making MSU a second home for our students!

It’s time to recognize the Spartans that take care of our furry best friends!

The Veterinary Medical Center is open to everyone in the MSU community, for normal appointments and emergency situations. Its emergency room is open 24/7 for both large and small animals. We are grateful that the Veterinary Medical Center is always there just in case a beloved pet needs urgent medical treatment.

At this animal hospital, MSU employees have nearby access to more than 20 specialty services, including rehabilitation, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, dentistry and more.

MSU employees can be certain that their dog, cat, or other furry, feathered or scaled companion receives excellent care. Vet Med has a strong team of veterinary specialists, who have completed additional training that allows them to consult and treat animals within a specific area of medicine. These specialists have passed examinations to verify their skills and knowledge in that specialty.

Vet Med takes training and education very seriously. Similar to a human medicine teaching hospital, interns and students observe and participate while animal patients are treated by board-certified specialists and veterinary residents.

Thanks, Veterinary Medical Center! The MSU community appreciates your dedicated care and treatment of our much-loved pets.

Spartan Linen Services keeps MSU looking fresh with expert cleaning and embroidering skills. The employees at Spartan Linen Services clean (literally) tons of laundry and linen with the assistance of industrial-sized machines.

The service even transports the dirty and cleaned linen around campus. It also partners with off-campus customers, such as Central Michigan University.

From this one-stop-shop MSU employees can have work attire, such as lab coats or culinary uniforms, embroidered or silk screened with logos and names. They can purchase regular clothing items such as T-shirts, rain gear hats and more from popular brands. Spartan Linen Services also cleans and rents out beautiful napkins and tablecloths. Students have this service to thank as well for free bed and towel linen trades in the residence halls.

Thank you Spartan Linen Services! After spending the day among tablecloths, coats, sheets, detergents and machines, know that the MSU community feels confident in your abilities and appreciates your work.