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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University graduate and retired businessman is giving $2 million to create an endowed professorship in humanities at the East Lansing school.
Michigan State announced the gift from Henry Timnick on Friday. Timnick is making the gift in honor of his mother, Ottilie Schroeter Timnick.
The university says the first person to hold the Timnick Chair in the Humanities is Kyle Whyte, a researcher and expert in the "ethical and political issues surrounding climate policy and indigenous peoples."
Whyte is on the faculty of the Environmental Philosophy and Ethics graduate concentration. He's also affiliated with the Peace and Justice Studies, Environmental Science and Policy, Center for Regional Food Systems, Animal Studies and American Indian Studies programs.
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