Advertising senior Maria Sasinowski is a few months away from graduating and already has accepted a job with Microsoft. She attributes this success to concepts she learned through a sales competition last fall.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, passed a bill trying to boost students’ chances at success in MTH 1825, Intermediate Algebra. The committee unanimously passed the bill, which advocates for a lecture option for the MTH 1825 class currently only offered as an online course. MTH 1825 is the lowest math class offered at MSU and is the class where students who score the lowest on the math placement exams are put. Surveys conducted by ASMSU representatives showed students were struggling in the class and felt changes were necessary. ASMSU will look to meet with the bill’s main supporters, ASMSU representatives Nate Pasmanter and Paul Mooney, in the coming weeks as their next step in the process.
After growing up in Atlanta, in the 1960s, Donzaleigh Abernathy vividly can recollect events of the civil rights movement. She recalls a childhood with “white” and “colored” drinking fountains, no guarantee to receive an education and not being “allowed” to step foot in the public library. Author and actress Donzaleigh Abernathy, daughter of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, also remembers the day her “Uncle Martin,” known to most as Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated. On Thursday evening at Kellogg Center, Donzaleigh Abernathy stood before members of the MSU community and told her story; the untold story of her father and King, and the civil rights movement. Abernathy said she was glad to be a part of the 13th-annual “Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey” visiting lecture series organized by the College of Osteopathic Medicine to celebrate Black History Month. About 200 people attended Thursday’s event, and crowd members were attentive and intrigued by Donzaleigh Abernathy’s stories — including stories of her father, Ralph Abernathy, who was the “thinker and planner” next to King.
“The Source” was just one of many names for Philip Greenman, a senior associate dean emeritus of the College of Osteopathic Medicine who spent more than 25 years at MSU and died Feb. 5 in his home in Tucson, Ariz., of cardiac failure brought on by pneumonia, “a department official said. Arrangements are underway, and a service will be held at his Arizona home.
As 15-year-old activist and 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai recovers from recent surgery after being shot in the head on her way home from school, MSU faculty and students from Pakistan are reflection on her fight for girls’ rights to education and what it’s really like to live there. On Oct. 9, 2012, Yousafzai was shot point-blank in the head and neck by Pakistani Taliban militants while she was riding home from school, according to a CNN report.
Election talk was the buzz at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly meeting Wednesday night, with the upcoming executive board election season quickly approaching. RHA started their presidential nominee process with four candidates being nominated, but only one accepted.
A student’s decision to attend a particular college might hinge on more than the academics available.
While on an internship in the New Mexican desert in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2011, an idea sparked within Jonathan DiClemente. He wanted to put windmill-type turbines in the oceans to create energy from tidal shifts, the mechanical engineering senior said. DiClemente said he had no clue his idea would inspire and lead him to be CEO of his own company, Current Tidal, which retrofits dams to make energy. He’ll do anything to protect it.
East Lansing is under a winter storm warning tomorrow for the potential of about 6 inches of snow, said Ernie Ostuno, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
At Tuesday afternoon’s Steering Committee meeting, administrators and student leaders discussed issues of campus safety, health and leadership. Many of the issues will be addressed again at the University Council meeting on Feb.
Promoting diversity, one bite at a time. More than five teams competed for the title of Global Iron Chef Champion on Tuesday evening in McDonel Hall. Global Iron Chef was thrown as a collaborative effort by the Arab Cultural Society, the Asian Pacific American Student Organization, the International Student Association and the Jewish Student Union.
Although many MSU students might be intimidated by the flashing blue and red lights on campus, MSU police officers said they should remember many officers were once in their shoes. MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor estimated nearly half of the about 70 officers in the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety were MSU graduates — something that could be an advantage to both officers and students.
While emptying trash cans at the Main Library yesterday, MSU’s Waste Reduction Coordinator Dave Smith was shocked by the number of recyclable items he found in the garbage. “I’ve been pulling trash cans today at the library, and it’s amazing how many recyclable items are in the trash,” Smith said. “We take so many things now that the vast majority of things on campus are recyclable.” Smith is trying to improve recycling as part of the 13th-annual RecycleMania, which kicked off last Sunday and will run until March 30. This will be the third year MSU participates in the event, which pits more than 500 colleges in a recycling race against each other.
A recently released annual survey conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles found rankings are not as important as some universities might think. The data is based on responses from about 193,000 freshmen in about 240 four-year colleges and universities. Freshmen ranked importance of 23 reasons that might influence their college choice.
As a 13-year-old girl picking asparagus in the fields of Texas with her parents, food industry management senior Sonia Viera always dreamed of working in an office.
Last Friday, MSU radio and television broadcasting students received the most first-place awards at the 2013 Michigan College Broadcast Awards. Students, some of whom were members of Impact 89FM and Focal Point television, received a total of nine awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, or MAB, with 13 students involved. MSU boasted the most first-place finishes out of the Michigan colleges that participated in the event, according to a press release from the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
For travelers hoping to get away from Michigan’s cold weather this year, students in the School of Hospitality Business might have the trip they’re looking for. The 22nd Annual Destination Auction will take place Saturday, Feb. 9 at Kellogg Center. The event is planned, organized and presented by students in The School of Hospitality Business. The auction includes a silent auction beginning at 5 p.m. and a live auction beginning at 6 p.m. “Our theme this year is coast to coast to really emphasize that we have hotel packages, restaurant experiences spa packages, items and gift cards from everywhere,” said Kayli Delamielleure, the director of marketing for the auction.
To MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, one of the biggest areas MSU can improve on is its fundraising efforts. “I worry that we have not been as successful in fundraising as we need to be,” Simon said. “We are very late in the game (for) a big university.”
When Rob Privette and the rest of the researchers at XG Sciences, a spinoff company that was born at MSU, decided to combine silicon with graphene, they hoped their research would yield something useful. They didn’t fully realize this combination would help make batteries more efficient — more minutes for a smartphone’s battery and more miles an electric vehicle can travel. The engineering company is hoping for more votes through the website Future Energy, which will provide eight new energy companies the chance to get attention from the U.S. Department of Energy. If they receive enough votes from anyone who visits the site, they could be highlighted at the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Energy Innovation Summit.
“Oohs” and “aahs” echoed through the south-end basement of Case Hall as more than 30 MSU students watched a long pass down the field be completed, signaling the biggest day in the U.S.