2000-2009

• April 3, 2000 - MSU Mens Basketball team wins NCAA Championship.
• 2001 - Women’s Cross Country Big Ten Champions
• 2001 - Women’s Golf Big Ten Champions
• 2004 - New Isotope observed at Cycloton
• 2005 - Enrollment reaches 45,000
• 2005 - Lou Anna K. Simon was elected the university’s first female president.
• March 2005 - MSU Women’s Basketball Team Wins Big Ten Tournament
• August 25, 2005 - The New Sparty Statue is Revealed
• October 21, 2005 - Residential College for Arts and Humanities founded
• 2007 - Albert Fert awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
• 2007 - Chicano/Latino studies doctoral program established
• 2007 - Donation for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
• 2007 - The university established the Center for Gender in Global Context.
• 2007 - Women’s Golf Big Ten Champions
• April 7, 2007 - NCAA Men’s Hockey Champions
• 2008 - MSU finished 29th in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup
• 2008 - Paolucci Building/Home Management House Razed
• December 10, 2008 - Announcement of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)