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Center to show Bollywood film
MSU’s Asian Studies Center is presenting a screening of Bollywood’s, “The Sky Below” at 6:30 p.m.
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MSU center set to host lecture Friday
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.
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Kellogg Bird Sanctuary offers class
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.
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Department of Theatre revises courses offered
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.
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MSU to host Shamrock Run-Walk-Roll
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.
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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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MSU to host event on majors Thursday
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.
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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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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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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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RHA elects new president of 41st session
After an eight and a half hour meeting, assembly members of the MSU Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected current Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak as president of RHA’s 41st session.
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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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MSU to host many agriculture events
The 95th annual Agriculture and Natural Resources Week will take place March 5-13 on campus.
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RHA to hold election for association's leader
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, will will hold its presidential elections at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in Van Hoosen Hall. The three candidates include RHA President Emma Perot, Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak and McDonel Hall representative Ryan Starski.
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MSU ranked as 17th best place to work in survey
MSU is ranked among the top 40 U.S. academic institutions in an annual survey of the best places to work in academia for the fourth year in a row. According to The Scientist magazine’s survey, MSU fell from No. 4 in 2008 to No. 17 in 2009.
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Agriculture forum to be held March 11
The Forage Technology Conference scheduled for 10 a.m. March 11 at Kellogg Center is part of Agriculture and Natural Resources Week.
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MSU center to hold gender talk series
The Center for Gender in Global Context at MSU will host its spring colloquial series, New Research on Women and Gender: Global and Local Perspectives, at 1:30 p.m. March 19 in Room 302 of the International Center.
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Madison prof to hold rights talk
Curtis Stokes, dean of James Madison College, will lead a lecture and discussion Wednesday titled Race and Human Rights at 6 p.m. in Club Spartan on the third floor of Case Hall.
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Bauer to hold meeting on campus
State Rep. Joan Bauer, D-Lansing, who chairs the House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, is holding a student hearing Wednesday at 4 p.m.