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Professor receives money to hire researchers

An MSU professor received more than $100,000 in federal stimulus money to hire summer researchers. Chemistry associate professor Dana Spence said his lab is still looking for an undergraduate student and a high school teacher to work as researchers this summer.

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Mich. Promise fund cut by Senate subcommittee

Michigan college students who rely on the Promise Scholarship may need to find another way to come up with cash for school. On Tuesday, a state Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to eliminate the Michigan Promise Scholarship and drastically cut funding for need-based grant programs. The bill came before the full Senate appropriations committee Wednesday.

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MSU to offer new graduate specialization

MSU graduate students interested in both education and economics won’t have to choose between passions anymore because of a new interdisciplinary program combining the two, set to start in the fall.

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MSU College of Music hosts jazz camp

MSU is hosting a jazz camp that began on Sunday and will conclude Friday, according to a statement from MSU. The 65 participating students are from Lansing and Detroit and are middle- and high-school aged.

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MSU president to speak at national summit

President Lou Anna K. Simon plans to particpate in the National Summit in Detroit, which began Monday and will run until Wednesday. Simon will speak at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. She will be addressing education’s role in helping the U.S. labor force become more technologically skilled, according to a statement from MSU.

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MSU plant opens doors to bioeconomy companies

An MSU professor will work on turning cornstarch into medicine at the university’s Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich. Afid Therapeutics Inc., owned by biochemistry and microbiology professor Rawle Hollingsworth, will be the first bioeconomy company to use the labs and production plant at the MSU-owned facility in Holland.

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14-year-old dies after collapsing at MSU gym

To those who knew him, Dorian Dawkins was a go-getter and a team player. The 14-year-old son of Saginaw High School basketball coach Lou Dawkins collapsed Friday night during his team’s game in MSU’s Team Shootout tournament at IM Sports-East. He died after being taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing by ambulance.

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Adobe to demo programs on MSU campus

An employee from Adobe Systems Inc. will be on campus to display some of the company’s upcoming software at 7 p.m. on June 16 in Room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.

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Hitting Close to Home

Some students are learning to expect the unexpected as the automotive industry, a foundation of Michigan’s economy, crumbles around them. The impact of the bankruptcies at Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp., has not passed by MSU and instead is hitting hard on the lives of students.

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Kresge meets Van Goyen

A seascape painting featuring the remnants of a flooded town is the newest addition to MSU’s Kresge Art Museum. Susan J. Bandes, director of the the museum, said the painting — “An Estuary with Row and Sail Boats,” by 17th century Dutch painter Jan van Goyen — is an important addition to the museum’s collection not only as an individual piece but as an addition to the collection of other 17th century Dutch paintings of different types.

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Govt., MSU sign cooperative agreement for FRIB funding

One of the first milestones on the road to bring the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams to MSU was announced Monday. MSU and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a cooperative agreement that will allow the DOE Office of Science to begin funding the project, according to a statement from MSU.

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MSU study: young adults feel safe in gangs

Young adults who join gangs are more likely to be victims of violence, but their membership makes them feel safer, according to a study by an MSU professor. Chris Melde, an assistant professor of criminal justice at MSU, led the federally funded study that found pressure for gang members to show nerve or fearlessness distorts their perception of risk and feelings of fear.

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MSU hires new director for study abroad office

After an almost yearlong search, Brett Berquist was hired as the executive director of the MSU Office of Study Abroad Wednesday. Berquist, currently the executive director of international programs at Western Michigan University, was chosen from about three dozen applicants, said Eric Freedman, assistant dean of International Studies and Programs. Berquist will start at MSU on July 15.

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MSU hires new study abroad director

MSU appointed Brett Berquist, executive director of international programs at Western Michigan University, to the position of executive director of the Office of Study Abroad at MSU, according to a statement from MSU. Berquist is set to arrive at MSU July 15.