1990-1999

• 1990 - MSU Produces World's First Medical Cyclotron
• 1990 - MSU mascot Sparty ranked No. 1 in the nation
• 1992 - Michigan State was the first university in the Big Ten and the second in the nation to select a female athletics director, Merrily Dean Baker.
• October 19, 1992 - Final debate of the 1992 Presidential Campaign held at MSU
• 1993 - MSU was the first university in the Big Ten to select a woman, Lou Anna K. Simon, as provost.
• 1994 - Former MSU first lady Joanne McPherson led the establishment of MSU Safe Place, the nation's first on-campus domestic violence shelter.
• January 19, 1994 - Fourth Snow Day: The Freeze Out
• 1995 - Adding a Law School to MSU's academic offerings
• 1995 - Library purchases its fourth million volume
• 1995 - Merritt Norvell was appointed Michigan State’s 18th athletics director, the first African American athletics director in the Big Ten.
• May 5, 1995 - President Clinton delivers commencement address
• January 6, 1997 - Steve Smith donates $2.5 million dollars to MSU for its new Student-Athlete Academic Center
• 1999 - The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is established