The board decided in an unanimous vote to allow Weiss to continue to serve on the law college board.

MSU is allowed to appoint one-third of the seats on the private law college’s governing body, which moved from downtown Detroit to MSU in 1995.

“I’m obviously very gratified to the MSU Board of Trustees for continuing to allow me to serve on the MSU-DCL board,” Weiss said. “It’s a position that’s very close to my heart.”

MSU-DCL Dean Terence Blackburn said Weiss has been an asset to the college’s board for a long time.

“We’re delighted that he’ll be continuing,” Blackburn said.

$8.8 million to go for radiopharmeceutical lab

MSU will get an $8.8 million loan from General Electric Co. Healthcare Financial Services to pay for an addition to the Clinical Center and Radiology Building.

The 12,000-square-foot addition will house a cyclotron radiopharmaceutical lab, said Dr. James Potchen, chairman of MSU’s Department of Radiology.

The cyclotron will allow doctors to use positron emission tomography technology to produce isotopes that will aid cancer diagnosis and treatment.

It also can be used to study the heart and measure blood flow.

“We are going to be a statewide resource for the production and distribution of some isotopes for PET scanning,” Potchen said.

The facility also will contain a vertical magnetic resonance imaging machine, which will allow doctors to study how the spine and other parts of the body behave when the patient is standing up. Most MRI scans are performed with the patient lying down.

MSU President M. Peter McPherson said the project is important to keep MSU “moving forward,” despite budget difficulties.

“A couple years from now if you stop pushing you will be behind where you are now,” McPherson said. “We’re moving along well.”