Members of the MSU Council of Graduate Students elected a focus group Wednesday night to discuss the restructuring of the colleges with MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon.MSU administrators are planning fundamental changes to six of MSU's colleges for the spring semester to make up for the drastic funding cuts from the state.Nine members were selected to attend the Dec.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, an MSU alumna, will return to her alma mater in December as one of three speakers to address graduates at this semester's commencement ceremonies.Stabenow will be joined by Lewis Coleman, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Bernard Kerik, who served as Iraq's interim minister of interior.The ceremonies will be held Dec.
MSU-DCL College of Law officials elected a new member to the MSU-DCL board of trustees. Louis Kasischke is a nationally recognized lawyer, businessman and mountaineer.
The English Language Center is hosting a meeting for provisionally admitted international students interested in admission to a U.S.
School of Journalism Associate Professor Folu Ogundimu will host a forum titled, "Freedom of Speech, The Media and Democracy in Africa," on Thursday.Ogundimu was an award-winning journalist with Nigeria's WNBC and the Nigerian Television Authority.
Conservationist and television personality Jeff Corwin brought his charm and expertise to MSU, speaking in front of a packed Auditorium on Tuesday night.The lecture is this year's second installment of the M.
More than three decades after the first Black Power Rally at MSU, members of the black community are still asking, "Are We Free?"That question is the theme of this year's rally, which begins at 7 p.m.
General Motors donated five patents to MSU on Friday to assist in developing fast-paced technologies for the removal of contaminated soil.The patented technologies will allow contaminated soil to be cleaned without excavating it or transporting it from a site and will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to clean a site, GM spokeswoman Susan Garavaglia said.
The Undergraduate University Division is sponsoring the Marathon of Majors from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday in hopes of alleviating some of the confusion undergraduates face in choosing a major. The event will be on the first-floor classroom wing of Bessey Hall.
In 1965, MSU's College of Engineering had eight black students. Two years later, the Engineering Equal Opportunity Program began, and the number jumped to 60. Today, 847 minority students account for about 19 percent of the 4,504 students in the college.
The National Society of Black Engineers named its top 50 preferred employers, and two Michigan companies made the top 20.The survey polled 700 college and university students nationwide in August and put IBM Corporation and Microsoft at the top.
Carmen Gear of the MSU Counseling Center has relationship information for students.This afternoon, Gear will speak on "Relationships 411 - Healthy vs.
Proposal A needs to be tweaked to preserve revenue for Michigan schools, a report released Monday concludes.David Plank and David Arsen, co-directors of MSU's Education Policy Center, released the findings of the report Monday at the Kellogg Center.
A comedy show and pig roast are two events that members of the Puerto Rican Student Association said they hope will help educate MSU students and Lansing-area community members this week.Puerto Rican Culture Week runs today through Friday."This year, we're making it more based on the ethnic value of Puerto Rico, our history and music," organization President David Torres said.
Across the United States, and especially in Michigan, the problem of obesity is growing at alarming rates.As state obesity statistics rise, MSU researchers are working to define exactly where the problem lies and what people can do to slow the increase.In a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 56 percent of Americans were overweight or obese in 2000.
MSU students surfing for school help online and a little interaction with other students now have an alternative to the ever-popular www.TheSpartanWeb.com provides a place for students to receive help from one another with classes, rate professors, set up car-pool rides across the state, voice their opinions on issues and place ads. Computer science freshman Kyle Mcauliffe co-owns the site, which was launched on Oct.
Seven members of an MSU environmental group sounded their dissatisfaction with the campus recycling program Friday afternoon by banging on plastic containers, pop cans and using laundry detergent containers as maracas outside of Wells Hall.Eco members organized a "Debris Drum Squad" to protest the Residence Halls Association student tax they claim is not fulfilling its purpose to help fund an adequate recycling program within residence halls.RHA recently signed a new one-year recycling contract with MSU's Office of Recycling and Waste Management after ending five years of service with Waste Management.
Television personality and conservationist Jeff Corwin will visit MSU's campus this week, speaking on endangered species and ecosystems and meeting with students. Corwin, the host of Animal Planet's "The Jeff Corwin Experience," will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Some MSU officials are expecting one of the university's three largest study abroad programs to become the largest by this summer.The College of Engineering's five-week program in Volgograd, Russia, has become one of MSU's largest in its five-year history."We're expecting to have the maximum number of participants this year," said Tom Maleck, co-director of the program, adding that participation is capped at 75 students.
Marie Takagi visited Greece, Latin America, Thailand, Kenya, Turkey and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday.