The Department of Entomology at Michigan State University is one of the oldest and largest departments in the nation, and we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary this coming year. As part of a land-grant institution, the Department of Entomology at MSU is comprised of a core of faculty, staff and students with the varied expertise needed to meet Michigan's diverse research, teaching and extension/outreach missions. As the students, faculty and alumni of MSU Entomology face the challenges of the 21st Century, it is imperative that they maintain a pioneering vision with a spirit very much akin to that of the graduates of the early classes of Michigan Agricultural College in the 1850's. This pioneering spirit appears to be alive and well along two very separate tracks. One is dedicated to a mechanistic world-view of technological dominance, and the other to an ecological world-view of equitable and sustainable development.