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Summer blooming
Ferris State University sophomore Ian Wenk waters plants at the Beal Botanical Garden on Monday, July 30, 2012. Wenk is working at the garden for the summer.
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Making an Impact
Journalism senior Jesse Wiza said she spends a lot of her summer days listening to music in preparation for her show, “Sit Or Spin.”
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Face Time: Manager of MSU Bikes Service Center Tim Potter
MSU Bikes Service Center, formerly run through the Physical Plant, has joined the Surplus Store and Recycling Center. The Surplus Store and Recycling Center currently sells bikes from time to time, but it does not offer repairs or have as steady of a stream of merchandise as the MSU Bikes Service Center.
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Research forum held in Engineering Building
Tuesday, about 225 students, all dressed in their best, flooded the northwest wing of the Engineering Building to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum. The forum was attended by students from about 60 universities from across the country, and a few from Puerto Rico.
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MSU competes in American Solar Challenge vehicle race
For the first time in the history of the MSU College of Engineering, the solar car team competed in a cross-country race at the American Solar Challenge this past week.
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Friends team up to run 5k in honor of deceased student
There was nothing communication junior Johanna Jelenek wanted more on her birthday than to honor her best friend Carly Glynn. Jelenek organized Team Carly Glynn, complete with matching pink T-shirts with Glynn’s name, for the Ele’s Race 5K Run/Walk on Sunday morning.
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Memorial dinner given to honor Dorothy Gonzales
Former Trustee Dorothy Gonzales wasn’t one to brag. She shied away from big displays focused on her, and no matter who she met, she carried herself the same way — she was all about her community. But last night, her friends and family decided it was time to give her a little extra attention by hosting a dinner in her honor.
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Nobel winner speaks at Wharton
Following a 24-hour flight from Japan, So Tsuda finally was able to relax in East Lansing and focus his love for science, with none other than a Nobel Prize winner.
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Lights, camera, practice
Inside the control room of Studio E in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, about nine middle and high school students learned what it takes to become a TV producer.
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MSU Ag Expo has farm essentials
The parking lot was filled with pickup trucks, and the air smelled like manure at the 2012 MSU Agriculture Expo, hosted by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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Ag Expo begins Tuesday
When agribusiness management senior Beth Oliver attended the MSU Agriculture Expo with her family when she was young, she had no idea how much it would change by the time she got to college. “What makes the Ag Expo special for me is that I remember coming here with my dad and brother when I was a little girl, and it was completely different when I started working here than my memories depicted it,” Oliver said in an email. The expo began Tuesday at the MSU Pavilion, located at the corner of Farm Lane and Mt.
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Butterfield to be renovated
In May 2013, Butterfield Hall will close for about a year to undergo construction and safety upgrades. It will be closed in the 2013-14 academic year.
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Students, residents learn music at Beaumont
Beaumont Tower is one of the most iconic buildings at MSU, but what many people don’t know is that with a little time and a lot of practice, anyone can play the carillon. Ray McLellan, university carillonneur, said he started playing the Beaumont Tower carillon in 1997, and he enjoys teaching people how to play.
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Alumnus compiles crime stories
Not many people know the story of Donald Miller, the only known serial killer from MSU. At least, that’s what MSU alumnus and author R. Barri Flowers thought when he included the story in his new crime anthology, “Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre.” The anthology is a collection of works from the true crime writers in the business and one of more than 60 titles Flowers has under his name.
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MSU students struggle to find roommates, housing for fall semester
Amanda Wenzel thought she had her housing situation for the 2012-13 school year figured out last fall. Wenzel, a special education sophomore, planned to live on campus with a friend started to fall apart in February when her future roommate backed out of their housing contract, and she’s tried to piece together her living situation ever since.
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MSU racing team places 6th in competition
The MSU Formula Racing Team completed the year with a sixth-place finish at the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers’ 2012 FSAE-West competition.
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Dedicated librarian Doris Parks remembered by friends, family
Doris Parks loved old books. More than anything, she loved searching for books. There was rarely a dusty, ornamented hardback she couldn’t find for an MSU student or professor in need.
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MSU, Lansing on track for high speed internet
Through the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U, MSU and Greater Lansing are on track to having a one-gigabit-per-second Internet connection available to all students and community members. The local Gig.U initiative is part of the national University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, working to connect communities around universities with the students and school. The project was first introduced in February by the Greater Lansing Gig.U coalition, which includes the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the Prima Civitas Foundation, or PCF, 325 E.
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Possible 20th-century boiler room discovered
Tuesday morning, Campus Archeologist and graduate student Katy Meyers shoveled the West Circle construction site, searching for clues about a discovered wall belonging to a structure lost in time. A week earlier, MSU Physical Plant Geographic Information Systems analyst Nick Voss found a wall below the ground next to Morrill Hall, and archeologists were called to check the scene.
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Iranian MSU student denied visa
When Faramarz Vafaee heard his friend was leaving to go back to Iran to visit his ailing mother, he never thought his friend wouldn’t be able to make it back to MSU. After spending more than two years at MSU working on his doctorate in mechanical engineering, Saleh Rezaei Ravesh was denied re-entrance into the U.S. But his friends at MSU are fighting back.