Facebook.com could double as a study tool this spring for select students in MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
The MSU Faculty Council discussed revisions to the tenure system and academic minors at its Tuesday meeting. Provost Kim Wilcox said the revision of the tenure system included a complete review of the policies on granting tenure to professors, in order to bring the system up to date.
When farmers devote entire fields to only one crop, it reduces the number of insects that serve as natural pesticides and causes a negative impact both environmentally and economically, research by MSU scientists concluded.
MSU wants to avoid problems that plagued the last upgrade of the ANGEL system by helping to test the new version early. The university is set to upgrade either to version 7.4 or 7.3 of ANGEL in mid-May. The last time ANGEL was upgraded in 2007, the system presented numerous technical bugs, causing serious problems for faculty using ANGEL, said David Gift, vice-provost of Libraries, Computing and Technology.
Americans weren’t the only ones to witness history Tuesday. International students also stopped to reflect on the impact the change in presidential leadership might have on them and their home countries abroad.
The College of Nursing was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study childhood obesity during the next three years. Nursing professor Mildred Horodynski will use the funding for a three-year infant feeding program called “Healthy Babies Through Infant-Centered Feeding” in Michigan and Colorado, according to an MSU release.
As President Obama was sworn in and millions around the world witnessed history, members of the MSU community celebrated the event around campus. Students gathered and watched the events on TV in the International Center and hundreds of MSU faculty, staff and students crowded the MSU Union Ballroom to view the inauguration on a projection screen.
Student government groups voiced their concerns about proposed accountability measures Friday at a meeting with university administration officials, and officials plan to create a new draft of the proposal based on those concerns.
Students from all walks of life took part in commemoration events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s work on Monday. About 100 students and community members participated in the march from the Union to Beaumont Tower, honoring King’s life.
MSU’s education researchers will help improve achievement at schools across Detroit this year. A $1.9 million grant will team MSU faculty with teachers, administrators and parents in Detroit with the goal of increasing the performance of public, private and charter schools in the city.
When MSU’s English-style equestrian team tied with the University of Michigan on Saturday at the MSU Horsemen’s Association’s equestrian show, it wasn’t by scoring goals or making baskets, by blocking a goal or intercepting a pass.
At a meeting on Wednesday, MSU’s Residence Halls Association decided to help students who lose roommates during the academic year.
Thursday at the Kellogg Center, Bobby Seale, co-founder and former member of the Black Panther Party, lectured on race relations in the 21st century.
MSU researchers are working on a way to help prevent food-borne illnesses such as the E. coli strain that hit campus this fall.
Concerns over animal cruelty led MSU administrators to disallow the Royal Hanneford Circus to bring animal entertainers to Breslin Center for the first time in 16 years.
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on race relations in America at 5 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center. Jennifer White, chairwoman of the Bobby Seale planning committee, worked to get Seale to speak at MSU because of his role in the civil rights movement.
The MSU Children’s Choir will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, or DSO, this weekend for the first time since 2006. Being selected to perform with the DSO is an honor and a challenge in itself, but the Children’s Choir also will have to learn a new language to perform.
The Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, looked into getting free textbooks for a few students and making revisions into oversight of its financial operations during a meeting Tuesday.
Two familiar faces will continue to hold leadership positions on the MSU Board of Trustees, after members of the board elected Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster to serve their second consecutive terms as chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively.
Research institutes and upgrades to the ANGEL system were a couple of the issues discussed at the first Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting of the new year. ECAC endorsed the creation of the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research as well as the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The first of the two will work with cyber-enabled discovery, which is using computers for research.