Events, Meetings and Speakers

2025-2026 Event Calendar

Faculty Emeriti Association Lectures

September to April Monthly Membership Meetings:  Second Monday, 1:30 PM  MSUFCU, Mt Hope & Farm Lane.
MSURA  presents and records the monthly seminars. 

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January 12, 2026 1:30 pm socialize, 2:00 pm talk, Monthly Membership Meeting at MSUFCU Farm Lane Branch’s Community Room, Barry Bradford, Professor Department of Animal Science, presenting MSU’s New Dairy Barn Initiative.  Bradford will share a video tour of the new dairy facilities complete with lots of photos of our MSU cows.

Bradford, the C. E. Meadows Endowed Chair in Dairy Management and Nutrition, will explain how the dairy program at MSU is growing to provide programs and resources to serve the evolving dairy industry in Michigan. The modernized facility will increase research output and impact, improve educational opportunities and serve as a hub for Michigan dairy farmers and industry. For the cows, a new ventilation system will enhance their surroundings this winter. The new facility will drastically improve the learning experience for Spartan students. 

Bradford came to Michigan State University after a 13-year career in Kansas State University, most recently as professor of animal sciences and industry.  Bradford seeks to provide proactive leadership to the MSU dairy team and dairy industry.  The role focuses equal time split between research and outreach.  His goal is to make research practical by testing it in controlled studies on commercial farms as an effective way to merge MSU Extension and research.

 

Join Sandra Lupien, director (MassTimber@MSU), to learn how the academic program leverages the STEM building as a learning laboratory, along with research, teaching, lots of collaboration, and policy to catalyze major mass timber momentum in Michigan.

“Mass Timber” — a group of very large, engineered wood building construction materials — can enable us to build big buildings (including skyscrapers!) more sustainably, more efficiently, and more beautifully than ever while providing new revenue sources to invest in forest health, as well as new jobs and economic development opportunities. Michigan State University’s STEM Teaching and Learning Facility is the most prominent mass timber building in the state.

Event Info:  Jan. 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. (approximately).  642 Red Cedar Road. Parking Lot 79 at Spartan Stadium (entrance off North Shaw, just west of the STEM building). Meet the group in front of Room 1130 just inside the main entrance off Red Cedar Road. We have a limit of 50 attendees so please register early.

 

• MSU RETIREES ASSOCIATION MONTHLY INFORMAL LUNCH AT BRODY HALL

Held on the second Friday of the month at MSU's Brody Square from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, this informal social event has no program.  Bring friends.   

The Brody Square dining hall is located on the second floor with an elevator and stairs near the front entrance.  Meals can be purchased in advance for a discount at EatAtState.msu.edu or pay full price in person.  Advanced purchasing links the meals to your MSU ID card, which then acts as a debit card to pay for meals when entering the dining hall.  Daily menus are available on the EatAtState.msu.edu website.  MSU Retiree Id cards are available at the MSU ID Office in the MSU International Center.  

Parking is available at Kellogg Center parking ramp, Jenison Field House or other employee parking with your MSU Retiree Parking Permit.   Permits may be ordered for free on the MSU Parking Office website,   Visitor Pay-By-Plate  parking is also available.

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Members of MSURA are persons officially designated as retired by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and their spouses or surviving spouses, (b) upon their written request, persons retired from other employment who had formerly been employed or appointed to adjunct positions by Michigan State University, and their spouses or surviving spouses, and (c) active Michigan State University employees who pay an annual subscription fee as set by the Board of Directors of MSURA.

    

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