The week in photos: March 25–31, 2025

Erica Wehrwein, recipient of the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, poses for a photo with her students. The award recognizes academic specialist and tenure system faculty members’ roles in the creation of innovative environments that enable student learning within and across disciplinary, cultural and ethnic boundaries. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

Patches of green are quickly appearing across campus, heralding the arrival of spring. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

Sunlight pours in through the tall glass windows in the atrium of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building. BPS is the largest academic facility on campus, housing the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology, Physiology and more. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

Nate Powell, award-winning graphic novelist, sat down for a conversation with Murray and Hong Special Collections Comics Studies Librarian Jason Larsen on March 28 for a conversation on how comics can be used for learning, community building and activism. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

Cheerful daffodils bloom behind the MSU Main Library. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

A student employee at the MSU Dairy Store serves up a classic combo of grilled cheese and creamy tomato soup, made even tastier with cheese crafted by Spartans in the Dairy Foods Complex. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

Members of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources community joined special guests hosted by the CANR Office of Culture, Access and Belonging to discuss belonging, well-being and building resilience at an Intercultural Awareness Day event on March 28. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

MSU President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., looks at photos of John Hannah with Hannah’s son, Thomas, and Thomas Hannah’s MSU roommate, Dirk Hornemann, by the John Hannah statue. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.

Student ushers at the Breslin Center receive a final briefing before welcoming students to the annual MSU Spring Concert, featuring bbno$, Gavin Turek and James Gardin, on March 27. The Spring Concert, organized by UAB, Impact 89FM, RHA and ASMSU, is a yearly tradition that brings popular artists to MSU with affordable tickets for students. Photo by Derrick L. Turner.