Dennis P. Nyquist, a former faculty member at the Michigan State University, has made a $1 million commitment to endow professorship in electromagnetics in the College of Engineering.
"Both the college and ECE department were instrumental in my professional growth, so I am delighted to support MSU and advance electromagnetics with this gift," Nyquist, a graduate of the MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said in a statement. "As a retired faculty member, I appreciate the value and prestige that endowed positions bring by attracting and retaining top quality faculty members to the college."
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said that the donation will further enhance the school's competitiveness and high performance.
"Endowed chairs and professorships give our deans and leaders a powerful means of attracting the next generation of MSU faculty," Simon said. "Our faculty are the essential resources in all that we do."
The Nyquist Professorship in Electromagnetics will be supported by two other donations: The Lucille P. Nyquist Memorial Endowed Electrical Engineering Graduate Fellowship FUND and the Dennis P. Nyquist Electromagnetic Research Discretionary Endowment Fund.
Endowed professorships and chair positions are the highest level of faculty distinction. The endowment gifts support the position, recruit and develop faculty members, and paves way for more research and scholarship.
Nyquist, an award-winning faculty member from East Lansing, holds a Ph.D. from MSU in 1966 and served as a faculty member from 1966 to 2002. He was conferred with the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award in 1969 and the University Distinguished Faculty Award in 1997.
