Tuesday, December 24, 2024

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Happenings

  • Kresge Art Museum: “Art in the ’Toon Age” curator’s walk, noon today, Kresge Art Museum. Curator April Kingsley leads a lunchtime walk of the exhibition “Art in the ’Toon Age.” For more information, contact (517)353-9834.

  • Kresge Art Museum: “On ’Toon Art,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Schuler Books & Music, 1982 W. Grand River Ave. in Okemos. Talk and slide presentation about the exhibition “Art in the ’Toon Age” by Kresge Art Museum curator April Kingsley. For more information, contact (517)349-8840.

    Organization meetings

  • MSU Horseman’s Association: Informational meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 1300 Anthony Hall. Students interested in more information about the equestrian team or the polo club should attend the meeting or send an e-mail to msuha@msu.edu.

  • Habitat for Humanity: Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Union Illinois Room. Come to our kickoff meeting to learn more about Habitat for Humanity. We help people help themselves by building simple housing. No experience necessary. We run work crews, book buddies and other community-service events. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be provided.

    Events

  • Moving Forward: The LBGTA Student Reception and State-wide Resource Fair, sponsored by Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students, Multicultural Development, LBGT Concerns and numerous other campus groups and departments, Sept. 5, Kellogg Center Big Ten Rooms A, B, C

  • Second annual Brown Pride Picnic, sponsored by Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan (MEXA), Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs and Xicano Development Center, 1-5 p.m. Friday, Walter Adams Memorial Field. The event celebrates the beginning of a new semester with hip-hop and Latin music.

  • Holden Hall’s racial ethnic student aides: “I Know I Look Good,” 8:30 p.m. today, 107-110 Holden Hall. Skyyline Hair Salon is coming to Holden Hall to do free haircuts, hairstyles, eyelashes/brows for the fellas and ladies. For more information, contact Christa Weaver at (517)353-4149

    Lectures

  • Department of Chemistry: Max T. Rogers Distinguished Lectureship, 4 p.m. Thursday, 138 Chemistry Building. Professor Michael J. Sailor, University of California at San Diego Department of Chemistry, will give a seminar on “Nanocrystalline Porous Silicon Fundamentals: Preparation and Properties.”

  • Department of Chemistry: Max T. Rogers Distinguished Lectureship, 4 p.m. Friday, 138 Chemistry Building. Professor Michael J. Sailor, University of California at San Diego Department of Chemistry, will give a seminar on “Porous Silicon Photonic Crystals and Fabry-Perot Mirrors: Sensors and Biomaterials.”

  • Department of Chemistry: Max T. Rogers Distinguished Lectureship, 4 p.m. Monday, 138 Chemistry Building. Professor Michael J. Sailor, University of California at San Diego Department of Chemistry, will give a seminar on “Luminescent Properties of Silicon Quantum Dots and Nanowires.”

    Music

  • MSU School of Music: MSU Choral Union Auditions, 6 p.m. today, Communication Arts and Sciences Building auditorium. Rehearsals are every Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. David Rayl, newly appointed director of choral activities at MSU, will conduct the Choral Union, a large, mixed chorus of community members and students performing major choral-orchestra works with MSU orchestras and the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra.

  • Arts Council of Greater Lansing: Patricia Green and Midori Koga, mezzo-soprano and piano, 3 p.m. Sunday, Music Building Auditorium. For more information, contact (517)355-3345.

    Sports

  • Medical Yoga Club of MSU: Yoga classes and meetings, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Union Purdue Room; 5:15-6:30 p.m. Fridays and 12:10-12:50 p.m. Mondays, D-214 Fee Hall. For health, relaxation, body awareness and more with simple exercises. For more information, contact Rob Exchbach at (517)351-3056 or e-mail reschbach@yahoo.com.

    Student groups and organizations can submit What’s Happening? entries through the State News Web site at www.statenews.com/happenings.

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