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Student group protests new art museum

Members of a new campus group contend construction for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum destroyed a small wetland, but MSU officials and a local environmental consulting firm insist it could not be classified as such.

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Mackerel Sky art gallery has new location

It’s the short walk frequent customers and curious students will make from art gallery Mackerel Sky’s old location to the new one. Friday marked the opening day for the well-known gallery at its new location, 211 M.A.C. Ave., after a five-day break in business for the move.

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Foundation awards MSU students money

The CHS Foundation recently granted three MSU students with $1,000 scholarships for their involvement in agriculture. Agribusiness management junior Kayla Lehman, animal science senior Rosemary Rice and crop and soil sciences senior Tim Wilke were awarded the scholarships.

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Wolverine death to be determined

The last known wild wolverine in Michigan was found dead about 60 miles northwest of Port Huron on Saturday and will be examined on MSU’s campus, according to The Detroit News. A female estimated to be 7 years old at the time of death, the wolverine was first seen in 2004, 90 miles north of Detroit.

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MSU celebrates agriculture, natural resources week

More than 80 programs and annual association meetings occurred on campus last week during the 95th annual Agriculture and Natural Resources, or ANR, Week. MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources hosted the event, which ran March 5 through Saturday.

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Lansing mayor gets key endorsement

Lansing mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero received an endorsement from Michigan AFL-CIO last week, The Associated Press reported. The AFL-CIO represents more than 600,000 active and retired Michigan union members, including United Auto Workers.

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MSU programmers develop land mine avoidance game

A team of MSU instructors and students is developing a computer video game to educate people — primarily kids — in Cambodia on how to avoid land mines and other explosive jungle perils. The team created a maze-like video game that uses image repetition to embed warning signals in players’ minds.

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(SCENE) Metrospace hosts art exhibit

Jen Ganzhorn, a 2009 MSU alumna, was a featured artist Friday in (SCENE) Metrospace’s “3-in-1 Show” exhibiting three bronze statues and four other pieces made during her time at MSU. The show was the kick-off event for (SCENE) Metrospace’s 3-in-1 gallery exhibition.

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Community music school holds all-school recital

More than 20 students, ranging in age from 5 to 17 years old, performed a piece or two at the MSU Community Music School All-School Recital, which featured young Community Music School, or CMS, pianists and violinists from the local area. CMS, an outreach division of the MSU College of Music, provides music lessons to students of all ages.

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IBM to host career fair for college grads

Spartan engineers will be given the opportunity Monday to pursue up to 60 new jobs with IBM — jobs they wouldn’t have to leave the city of East Lansing to get. Recruiters from IBM’s Global Delivery Center, which is located on the second floor of the MSU Federal Credit Union at 600 E. Crescent Road, for application services will be on campus for a meet-and-greet with both MSU and non-MSU graduates next week.

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MSU to change vet surgery practices

MSU no longer will use live animals to teach veterinary students surgical techniques, a spokesperson for the College of Veterinary Medicine said Thursday. Linda Chadderdon, spokeswoman for the college, said the university will switch from live animals to alternative methods of animal surgery education, such as animal cadavers, beginning in the fall.

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Group to address transportation

Major transportation issues will be addressed in October as three Michigan universities — MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University — plan to meet in Dearborn for a three-day conference called Transforming Transportation: Economies and Communities, a new transportation research consortium put on by the University Research Corridor, or URC.

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House subcommittee meets with students

Members of the Michigan House of Representatives Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee held a meeting with college students at Kellogg Center and allowed the students to testify about budget concerns facing colleges and universities, Wednesday.

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MSUFCU grant helps students of all ages

A new grant from the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, will help the MSU Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement send 95 more student volunteers into the Greater Lansing community this semester and in the fall by providing something often taken for granted — transportation.