Officials on the newly elected executive board for the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, want to create new programs and services for the more than 10,000 graduate and professional students at MSU, but said their plans are contingent on a tax referendum currently before students.
Beginning this fall, the MSU colleges of Education and Osteopathic Medicine will collaborate to better prepare health educators for teaching through a new online master’s degree program. The Education for Health Professions program was approved last week by MSU’s Academic Council.
Some MSU students celebrated Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday, from turning off the lights for one hour at 8:30 p.m. to enjoying various forms of energy-free entertainment, such as relaxation lessons to poetry performances.
With more than 400 guests, a live instrumental band and a room teeming with almost every flavor of wine imaginable, the mood was especially festive for the 15th annual Wine Tasting Benefit for the MSU Museum.
MSU Model United Nations, or MSUMUN, hosted its 10th annual Model UN conference, called Conference X, for 429 high schoolers from 30 Midwest schools. The three-day event, sponsored by MSU James Madison College and ASMSU, was divided into 12 historical and currently operating organizations and councils. The students debated three issues per committee from the perspective of an assigned country, senator or other political leader in their organization. This year, the conference was held on MSU’s campus for the first time, and Wharton said its location almost doubled the number of delegates who attended. She said having the event on campus promotes MSU as a university and the students enjoy feeling a part of the MSU community. “If they’re into basketball, they’re watching that game with MSU students who are cheering right along with them, and you can tell how excited they are,” Wharton said. Another draw for the high school teams included the Michigan Senate committee, which was held for the first time. Monika Johnson, MSUMUN’s chair of the Senate committee and international relations junior, said the issues discussed in the committee hit home with the delegates. “One of the girls said that her mom had been out of a job for three years, so she was especially interested in the economic development topic,” Johnson said.
About 40 students performed a play in celebration of Nawriz, a Persian word meaning “new day.” It refers to Central Asia’s New Year, officially celebrated on the first day of spring. The play incorporated various musical performances as well as traditional Turkish, Kazakhstani and Iraqi dances Saturday at Wharton Center.
State News managing editor and history junior Justin Harris was appointed incoming editor-in-chief Friday by The State News Board of Directors.
The MSU Health and Risk Communication Center will host a bone marrow registry from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
In the final meeting of ASMSU’s Student Assembly on Thursday night, assembly members of the outgoing 46th session unanimously — but unhappily — approved new language for a tax referendum to support its Readership Program. The new language requires the tax to be revisited again in 2011.
Three MSU scientists recently received more than $1.4 million by the United States Department of Agriculture, or the USDA. Grants were awarded under a USDA program called National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, to George Smith and Juan Steibel, both professors in animal science, and C. Titus Brown, an assistant professor in molecular genetics.
A new program announced Monday will give selected students in the University of Michigan-Flint’s premedical program early admission assurance in MSU’s College of Human Medicine, according to a statement released by MSU.
The MSU Muslim Studies Program hosted a lecture about Iran and the politics surrounding it Thursday. About 50 people attended the event, titled Iran at the Crossroads.
MSU is teaming up with a number of partners to discover community strengths statewide and concoct plans to use those strengths to help aid Michigan’s economic recovery.
Unless a compromise is reached during Student Assembly’s meeting Thursday night, student voters might not have a chance to vote on whether to fund the ASMSU Readership Program when ASMSU’s spring elections begin Monday.
Taking vitamins is important. And in a few years, taking corn might be too. Dean DellaPenna, a microbiology and molecular genetics professor, worked with a team of 20 scientists and several organizations to add more beta-carotene, or vitamin A, to corn.
Shawn Targosz never experienced anything like it before. Lemons tasted like the sweetest candy ever, and a Guinness beer tasted more like a chocolate malt. Targosz attended a flavor-tripping party Wednesday night at Reno’s East Side Sportsbar & Grill, 1310 Abbot Road. The MSU Outdoors Club hosted its first flavor-tripping party as a fundraiser and promotion for the Banff Mountain Film Festival it is hosting April 7.
Campus could get a little darker at 8:30 p.m Saturday as students are asked to shut down any unnecessary power for one hour. The event is part of Earth Hour 2010, which aims to increase awareness of climate change.
MSU students could be among participants at the Our Higher Education Rally noon to 2 p.m. on Thursday at the Capitol as part of a statewide effort organized by the Student Association of Michigan, or SAM.
MSU will be hosting the Michigan Clean Energy Forum at 2 p.m. April 10. The theme “Jobs and the Clean Energy Race” will include panelists from various job sectors including several faculty members from MSU.
About 30 students gathered Wednesday at the Hillel Student Jewish Center, 360 Charles St., for an Ice Cream Seder night to get into the holiday mood for the upcoming Passover Seder on Monday.