After an almost yearlong search, Brett Berquist was hired as the executive director of the MSU Office of Study Abroad Wednesday. Berquist, currently the executive director of international programs at Western Michigan University, was chosen from about three dozen applicants, said Eric Freedman, assistant dean of International Studies and Programs. Berquist will start at MSU on July 15.
MSU appointed Brett Berquist, executive director of international programs at Western Michigan University, to the position of executive director of the Office of Study Abroad at MSU, according to a statement from MSU. Berquist is set to arrive at MSU July 15.
No LOLing, txting habits could b harmful 2 ur health. Teenagers in the United States sent and received about 2,300 text messages per month in 2008’s fourth quarter, an average of almost 80 messages per day, according to a recent Nielsen study. The 80 texts per day represented a more than 50 percent increase from the same time in 2007.
Although learning a foreign language can be a time-consuming endeavor, Ibro Chekaraou, an MSU African languages coordinator, said one could become proficient in Hausa, a language spoken primarily in West Africa, in eight weeks. Chekaraou will serve as director of the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute, a federally funded program held at MSU from June 15 to Aug.
The MSU Community Music School will host the seventh annual Eric ‘RicStar’ Winter Music Therapy Camp next week for individuals of special needs as well as their siblings.
msu Great Lakes web site ranked no. 2 The Great Lakes Echo Web site, produced by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at MSU, was named the No.
MSU will receive almost $400,000 in stimulus money for health-care research and training, according to a press release from U.S.
James Pivarnik, an MSU professor of epidemiology, added a line to his résumé last week when he took over as president of the American College of Sports Medicine, the world’s largest exercise medicine organization, at an annual conference in Seattle.
It started with a question the Monday after daylight-saving time in April 2008: How did you like your short night of sleep? For MSU doctoral students Christopher Barnes and David Wagner, finding the answer to that question led to a research project and an article that will be published in the September issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Do you think summer classes are more difficult than during the year, and why?
To his colleagues, friends and students, Aimé Ellis was an ambitious, intelligent, kindhearted and creative man, with a knack for engaging his students and challenging their preconceived notions of the world.
Jurors adjourned for the day after deliberating for about two hours Wednesday in the murder trial of Troy Brake, who is charged with killing MSU student Katherine A. Brown and three others.
From Friday until Sunday, the MSU Pavilion will host the Half Arabian Association of Michigan horse show. The Half Arabian Association of Michigan is a state-wide horse club that promotes the breeding, showing and use of half-Arabian horses, said John Schauer, show manager for this year’s show and association treasurer.
When MSU biochemistry and molecular biology professor Robert Last identified two new genes and enzymes in the tomato plant, his view of the vegetable was forever changed. “It is almost like discovering one of your best friends really isn’t what you thought he or she was,” Last said. “This compound is fundamentally different than was thought.”
Most college graduates won’t face an uphill battle paying off student loans according to a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The report, published in the Chronicle’s May 22 issue, said 65 percent of college students leave school with debt, and the average debt is about $20,000.
Drivers might have to pay more to fill up their tank because of proposed national climate change legislation, but it could result in positive long-term effects for Michigan, state officials said.
Michael Nelson, an MSU associate professor of fisheries and wildlife, knows that being a scientist means having responsibilities outside of the lab. He and more than 180 Michigan scientists, lived up to those responsibilities last week by signing a letter pressuring Michigan lawmakers to take swift action against climate change in the Great Lakes State.
MSU’s College of Music and College of Education will have a new base of operations in the Detroit area beginning this fall. The university signed a seven-year lease on a 22,000-square-foot building, located at 3408 Woodward Ave., in Detroit.
An MSU committee is discussing options including lowering prescription drug costs and implementing wellness programs for faculty in an attempt to curb rising health care costs. The Health Care Strategy Advisory Committee was formed in February to find ways to make MSU’s health care system more efficient.
The warm weather, flip-flops and sun of an East Lansing summer have remaining MSU students shaking off the previous months’ cold and taking to the outdoors, whether they’re enrolled in classes, working or laying out in their front yards.