The Malaysian Students Organization will host Malaysian Culture Night at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the East Lansing Hannah Community Center theater, 819 Abbot Road. The event will include multiple small performances woven into a bigger story called “When Hairi Met Se Li.”
George Axinn, a retired MSU professor, who continued to teach an MSU course online and at times returned to the university to teach free of charge after moving to Tucson, Ariz. in the late 1990s, died March 8 of natural causes after having seizures from unknown causes, his daughter, Martha Jerrim, said. He was 84-years-old.
Students and faculty gathered Wednesday for the first College of Veterinary Medicine Education Day to discuss current and future learning processes in the college. The day-long event featured breakout sessions ranging from the use of technology in learning and collaboration, the use of the Internet in education and discussions on teaching methods.
An MSU associate psychology professor, along with the help of a professor from Western Ontario University, recently found that America’s youth have changed very little throughout the past 30 years. Brent Donnellan, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, analyzed data from a University of Michigan survey and said he discovered the attitudes, attributes and personalities of youth have remained relatively the same since the survey began in 1976.
Apoorv Kalra, an assistant professor in MSU’s College of Human Medicine, was one of nine researchers chosen nationwide to receive Pfizer’s 2009 Young Investigator Antibacterial Research Award for his study on the effects of the antibiotic linezolid on the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a common cause of staph infections.
Burcham Hills Retirement Community, 2700 Burcham Drive, held a St.Patrick’s Day party Wednesday for residents of the community and their family members. Partygoers enjoyed various snacks, green beer and traditional Irish entertainment.
After about four years of work, the last of a series of Academic Governance bylaw changes were approved to move on to the next step of the process during a Tuesday Faculty Council meeting. The goal is to have the document through the next step of approval — Academic Council — by the end of April, said Robert Maleczka, Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, vice chairman.
MSU researchers could be part of the solution to childhood obesity in Flint under a partnership between the university, a Flint nonprofit fitness foundation and Flint Community Schools.
Hoping to diminish the number of costly and painful surgeries performed on cats, MSU veterinarians and researchers are conducting a dietary study aimed at solving three major feline bladder problems.
Researchers from MSU and University of California-Davis are working with researchers and students from three Central Asian countries — Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — to create more environmentally safe methods of pest management in those countries.
Of the thousands of MSU students who studied abroad in the last year, about 11 percent made Asian countries their destination, said Cheryl Benner, communications manager for the university’s Office of Study Abroad. This percentage puts MSU on par with other universities nationwide that see lower numbers of students choosing Asia as their study abroad destination. Eleven percent of American college students who go abroad pick Asia as their destination, while more than half of students choose European countries, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Abortion has long been a hot-button issue in America, and a possible solution might be in Japan. The Asian Studies Center and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences hosted a lecture called Abortion, Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Bioethics in Japan, on Tuesday.
MSU’s Asian Studies Center is presenting a screening of Bollywood’s, “The Sky Below” at 6:30 p.m.
The MSU Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, or CERES, is holding a Brown Bag Luncheon Series by Lisa Cook, a professor in James Madison College from noon to 1:30 p.m.
The Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, 12685 E. C Ave. in Augusta, Mich., is offering its third annual Field of Ornithology Course, or FOC, this spring. The course will run from Wednesday through May 22 and include lectures and field trips every other week.
A series of revisions to course offerings within the Department of Theatre slated to take effect this fall will allow the department to more effectively use its resources and create more flexibility for students.
MSU Tower Guard will host its 10th annual 5k Shamrock Run-Walk-Roll on Saturday at Conrad Hall. This year, Tower Guard reached out further to the East Lansing community, involving about 20 local businesses which have donated more than $3,000 in sponsorships.
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.
MSU’s Undergraduate University Division will be hosting a Marathon of Majors from 5-7 p.m. Thursday on the first floor of Bessey Hall.
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.