1960-1969

• 1960 - Kennedy Campaign hits campus
• 1962 - The State News wins national Pacemaker award.
• 1963 - The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory is the nation’s largest nuclear science facility on a university campus.
• 1964 - Founding of College of Human Medicine
• January 1, 1964 - Name of University changes to Michigan State University
• 1965 - Eleven new buildings completed in one year
• 1965 - NCAA College Football National Champions
• February 11, 1965 - Campus visit and lecture by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1966 - MSU Hockey Team wins its first NCAA championship.
• 1966 - MSU receives ownership of Pewabic Pottery
• 1966 - NCAA College Football National Champions
• 1967 - First university ombudsman appointed
• 1967 - James Madison College (JMC) started.
• 1967 - Lyman Briggs College founded
• January 27, 1967 - First Snow Day
• 1969 - Founding of the College of Osteopathic Medicine
• 1969 - Alfred Day Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.