Kevin Guskiewicz, Ph.D.

President
Michigan State University

Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and academic leader who assumed the presidency of Michigan State University on March 4, 2024.

Following his arrival at MSU, Guskiewicz embarked on a 48-plus-stop listening and learning tour of the university’s colleges and administrative units. The tour was a key component of his work to help identify an institutional “true north” that will lead MSU to provide the best education and workplace culture for Spartans and bold service to the public in the land-grant tradition.

He previously served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a nationally recognized expert on sport-related concussions. His research team’s groundbreaking work influenced concussion guidelines in the NFL and NCAA.

In 2011, Guskiewicz received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for his innovative work on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sport-related concussions. In 2013, Time magazine named him a Game Changer, one of 18 “innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America.”

Guskiewicz earned a bachelor’s degree in athletic training from West Chester University, a master’s in exercise physiology/athletic training from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in sports medicine from the University of Virginia.