Name: Associate Professor Robert LaDuca Department: Chemistry, Lyman Briggs School Title of research project: Hydrothermal synthesis of inorganic/organic hybrid materials Date of research: LaDuca has been working on this project since 1996 when he taught at King's College in Pennsylvania, and continued his work when he came to MSU in 2004.
Katie Blair Mathews, a history and telecommunication, information studies and media senior studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, attended the women's moguls on Saturday at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. The Olympics were amazing.
The average number of online applications for MSU admission — including freshmen, graduate and transfer students — is up almost 8 percent since last year, which is consistent with a national trend in college admissions, officials say. Online freshman applications for fall 2006 alone jumped 10 percent from last year, with about 75 percent of them received online as of Feb.
Tara Cariano, a psychology and family and community services junior studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, attended the U.S.
The All University Traffic & Transportation Committee will hold the first of two public feedback sessions on campus transportation tonight. The session is from 7-9 p.m.
By Tara Thoel For The State News Fossils from birds, mammals, insects and reptiles were spread out over several tables at the MSU Museum on Sunday as a way for people to learn about different types of species. People could even bring in fossils of their own to be identified. "We were trying to find something to bring in, but we couldn't find anything," said Roxanne Dewyer, a premedicine and anthropology sophomore. Students, families and others looked at the different fossils and classified seashells, and viewed other exhibits at the museum to commemorate naturalist Charles Darwin's 197th birthday. "I am really into evolution and found out there was going to be new exhibits, and was really excited," Dewyer said. Lansing's Potter Park Zoo brought live animals, and nine units and departments at MSU were represented by specialists in the fields.
By Toshira Johnson For the State News Going once! Going twice! Sold! MSU students' search for love turned a little pricey Thursday night. About 200 students gathered in the Union Ballroom with bidding signs, ready to win dates with 19 of the most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes at MSU including assistant dean of multicultural business programs, Ernest Betts. Potential dates strutted to music while an announcer listed a few key facts and embarrassing tidbits about the candidates to the crowd.
Olin Health Center health educators are challenging ASMSU members to improve their diets and get in shape. After approaching Olin about stress relief programs, health educators Dennis Martell and Jonathan Kermiet challenged ASMSU chairperson Andrew Schepers and other student government officials to use the Lifestyle Inventory and Fitness Evaluation: Prescription Program, or LIFE: Rx, an Olin program that assesses a client's lifestyle for an individualized fitness and eating plan. Martell said he wants ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, to lead other students back to the gym. "Half of campus wouldn't be able to pass an aerobic test," said Martell, who is a State News columnist.
A Harvard University professor and historian explored the role U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played in the United States after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and described her as "detached from the black community" during a lecture Thursday night. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham was the second of four speakers for MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine's sixth-annual lecture series, "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey." Higginbotham, whose lecture was titled "An Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice," is an author, Harvard professor and renowned historian. "Dear Condoleezza Rice, Miss Secretary of State, you are the most important woman in the United States, some might even say the world," Higginbotham began her lecture at the Kellogg Center. With a calm expression and exquisite posture, Higginbotham explained a conversation she had with students at Harvard about the Civil Rights Movement.
Most MSU students can only watch the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin from the comfort of their nearest TV set.
All some students had to eat for dinner Wednesday night was rice and water from a spot on the floor — while another group of students feasted on a four-course meal right next to them at elegantly set dining tables. These MSU students learned about the disparity between the wealthy and the poor at a hunger banquet put on by the North Campus Black Caucus in the Snyder Hall cafeteria.
Student government officials are working on a plan that could lower textbook costs by refunding students a portion of their total purchase for the school year. A bill recommending Gov.
Yvonne Wood traveled to her mother's native Colombia when she was about 5 years old. But it's not her own memories that stayed with her through the years — it was the stories her mother told her about her own childhood. Wood, an environmental studies and applications senior wants to travel back to Latin America by serving in the Peace Corps. "My life is completely different than any of my (Colombian) relatives," she said.
ASMSU officials are investigating a plagiarism-prevention Web site used by MSU's Lyman Briggs School to determine if the site is academically ethical. ASMSU is MSU's undergraduate student government. Turnitin.com, a prewriting tool designed to catch plagiarism errors in papers, is used by some instructors in the Lyman Briggs School. Robert Murphy, ASMSU's Academic Assembly chairperson, said he learned of the Web site at a conference he attended in December. "It was brought to my attention by Saginaw Valley State University," he said.
A proposed building move has the Urban and Regional Planning Program concerned about the fate of its in-house library, which harbors more than 35,000 planning reports from around the globe. The Office of Planning and Budgets is discussing a plan to move the four units of the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction into the Human Ecology Building, said Eric Strauss, director of the school's Urban and Regional Planning Program.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will deliver her second Founders' Day speech at 3 p.m. today in the Pasant Theatre of the Wharton Center.
Crinkled foreheads and questioning looks adorned the faces of students in MSU's Italian Club as a Scopa tournament developed. A corner of the Multicultural Center in the Union overflowed with chatter as students sought information from others on how to accurately play the Italian card game. "So, can I pick it up?" "Yeah, it's a Scopa, I think." Club president Achille DiNello said the group focuses more on social activities than cultural ones, but he's trying to change that.
Name: Professor Norman Sauer and Assistant Professor Todd Fenton Department: Forensic anthropology Type of research: Identifying human remains Date of research: Sauer has been researching forensic anthropology for about 30 years, and Fenton began when he joined the department in 1998. Basics of the project: "We aid in the investigation of deaths," Fenton said.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, is seeking public comment about its proposed tax increase at its Wednesday meeting. RHA officials are asking that students voice their opinions on whether the tax increase should be approved at 7:15 p.m.
Instead of studying environmental science in a classroom next fall, students can spend the semester in a new study-away program at MSU's W.K.