MSU is No. 1 in Michigan and No. 4 in the U.S. for producing Peace Corps volunteers, according to the 2010 rankings released by the Peace Corps organization. Despite dropping one place since last year’s rankings, MSU maintained its place among the leaders in producing volunteers this year.
Before Laura Casey graduated from MSU in 1993, the James Madison College alumna and OnStar satellite radio services manager said she had a “major of the week” during her sophomore year. “I would pull out the big course book and every week I’d write out a new career and post it on the wall,” she said.
Elementary and middle school students from across the state took over the Union on Saturday with family, coaches, teachers and chess boards in tow. Students filled the first floor of the building as early as 7 a.m. with coolers, blankets, pillows and folding chairs in anticipation of the Michigan Scholastic Chess Tournament. Playing with their friends, tournament competitors laughed and chased each other in the hallways and outside. As the tournament commenced, however, the atmosphere upstairs became much more serious.
Faculty members from the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing are grading the best and worst of the commercials during Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday.
Blood pressure, temperature and a two-question survey screening for depression soon will become part of a routine checkup for students seeking treatment at Olin Health Center.
Donations to MSU in 2009 fell 4 percent from the previous year, but the drop was lower than the Big Ten average, according to a survey released Wednesday. The report, released by the Council for Aid to Education, or CAE, found the national average in giving decreased 12 percent between July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009. The Big Ten averaged about a 10 percent decrease. More than 1,000 institutions participated in the survey.
The vacant lots and abandoned houses of Detroit’s urban landscape could turn into green pastures soon. MSU started a partnership with the Greening of Detroit, a Detroit-based nonprofit organization aimed at encouraging environmental awareness in Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Garden and the Detroit Agriculture Network to create the Garden Resource Program Collaborative.
In the basement of the Engineering Building is a series of doors, behind which lie robots that climb walls, detect breast cancer tumors and test protective clothing worn by soldiers.
After months of searching, MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business will have a chance to break new ground if Stefanie Lenway is approved as the new dean. Lenway, currently the dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, College of Business Administration, would be the first female dean in the history of MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
President Barack Obama requested $10 million in his proposed 2011 budget to fund MSU’s future Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. University officials said the project is progressing as expected.
MSU Community Programs is hosting a clothing drive until Feb. 22. MSU Community Programs is part of the Student Alumni Foundation.
Terry Root, a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, is scheduled to discuss climate change and its effect on Michigan species from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Union, Parlors A and B.
The future of alternative fuels and economic freedom might be as simple as grass clippings and wood chips. Biomass such as straw, switchgrass and wood chips can be used to produce cellulosic ethanol, a potential replacement to ethanol produced from corn, wheat and rice, said Bruce Dale, associate director of MSU’s Office of Biobased Technologies.
Shauna Sly is not a registered organ donor, but the special education and deaf education sophomore said that could change. A team of MSU researchers are turning to social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, to attract more student organ donors.
Symone Ayers lost five family members to cancer and cites her grandmother, a survivor, as her major source of inspiration. Kelly Knupfer lost her uncle to brain cancer and aspires to work for the American Cancer Society after graduation. Chelsea Lewis watched some of her closest friends fight cancer, and now she fights for them.
In celebration of Black History Month, MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine is sponsoring a lecture series slated to open at 5 p.m. Thursday at Kellogg Center.
To one MSU researcher, a rift between two opposing schools of thought on how to treat children with autism needs to close in the interest of advancing the field.
For the first time in MSU’s history, the State of the University address is going viral.
For the first four months back in his parents’ house, Tyler Smith didn’t unpack. Boxes filled with pictures of old high school girlfriends and pieces of clothing worn once at MSU theme parties — ugly Christmas sweaters and snow pants from Goodwill — cluttered the room.
Jumping into water filled with sharks is probably not a wish most people want to come true.