In its 20th year, African Culture Week is celebrating diversity with different events throughout the week. The movie "Sankofa" will be shown at 7 p.m.
MSU police Officer Steve Brandman said he wondered when he would ever actually use the math taught in schools. That time came when he began his training in accident investigations. "I haven't had physics or math in 20 years, but I do remember it," said Brandman, who is finishing up his ninth level of accident investigation training this week at the MSU police station. Dan Lee, director of MSU's Highway Traffic Safety Programs, said he has been running the program for 20 years at MSU. There are 23 levels of accident investigation training, Lee said.
Evan Fiddler swipes his student pass and sits close to the front of the bus, without much thought. He says he doesn't think about where he sits when he boards a Capital Area Transportation Authority bus. "I just look for one that's open," the telecommunication, information studies and media freshman says.
Students and faculty will be able to go to Israel with MSU study abroad programs this summer — five years after the university canceled them because of violence in the area. Provost Kim Wilcox signed a letter Wednesday announcing the reinstatement of faculty-led study abroad programs in Israel. Kenneth Waltzer will lead the Jewish Studies Program at the Rothberg International School at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem this summer. "The university remains concerned about maximizing the safety and security of all participants of study abroad, but they also feel the situation has changed substantially in Israel," said Waltzer, Jewish Studies Program director. The U.S.
At 4 p.m. today in room 342 of Case Hall, The New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner will give a speech on the contemporary Middle East. The event is open to the public.
A World Usability Day conference will take place from 1 to 5:30 p.m. today in the Union Ballroom. World Usability Day is an international series and an effort to raise awareness about making technology easier for everyone to use. The free event — which is presented by the MSU Usability & Accessibility Center and the Michigan Usability Professionals' Association — will include experts and authors on usability and new product accessibility.
Liliana Martinez said she wishes she could be in Tamaulipas, Mexico, with her parents today to give her grandfather cigarettes, spicy food and his favorite hat. Instead, the food industry management junior will be remembering him on campus in honor of the Mexican ritual, El Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Martinez said today is a special day for her family because her grandfather died on April 4. "He was a very important part of my life," said Martinez, a Texas resident.
The eighth annual Green and White Charity Bowl will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Munn field. The Senior Class Council of ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, and STA Travel are sponsoring the event to raise funds for a charity organization. The touch football tournament involves coed teams of seven to 12 players, and regular IM Sports touch football rules apply.
ASMSU's Student Assembly set aside $11,000 for office equipment, software, signs and insurance at their meetings last month. "Every single one of those items is for the betterment of ASMSU as a whole," said Megan Wolocko, ASMSU comptroller.
The third annual MSU Women's Leadership Conference will take place from 1:30-7:30 p.m. Sunday. Registration for the event will continue until the conference is full. The event is geared to female MSU students, but is open to anyone.
Author Jack Driscoll is speaking as part of the Michigan Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday in room W449 of the Main Library. Driscoll has written four poetry books, a collection of short stories and three novels.
An interior design seminar will be held Friday at the Henry Center for Executive Development, 3535 Forest Road in Lansing. "A View of Excellence Design Trek 2005," sponsored by the MSU chapter of American Society of Interior Designers, is for young designers and students.
MSU and Grand Rapids community leaders are inching closer to a decision about the future of the university's College of Human Medicine. Stakeholders in a proposed expansion of the college are scheduled to meet today in Grand Rapids to continue discussions about the project, and the group's final report could be in the works. During the summer, specialized work groups looked into the feasibility of different aspects of the project. The work groups were coordinated by Van Andel Institute Chief Administrative Officer Steve Heacock, who was charged with facilitating discussions among the stakeholders. Heacock said he has spent the last month and a half talking with the chairpersons of those work groups and drafting a report of recommendations.
Speaking to students about entrepreneurship, the makers of Glacéau Vitamin Water, Fruit Water and Smartwater will be on campus today. From 5:25-6:25 p.m.
A one-day history conference will be hosted Wednesday by MSU's Julian Samora Research Institute.
Dressed up as a pirate, Kristin Dombrowski painted a sparkly moon and stars on the face of 11-year-old Morgan Newport, who was a half-angel and half-devil for Halloween. "(The children) are so happy when they come through, I just keep coming back," said Dombrowski, a telecommunication, information studies and media and studio art junior, who has participated in on-campus Halloween events for the past few years. MSU students organized trick-or-treating in Rather Hall on Monday evening as a way to provide safe, fun activities for local residents. Morgan's mom, East Lansing resident Jennifer Newport, said she has brought her children to trick-or-treat at residence halls for more than 12 years. The event is one way to improve relations between students and permanent East Lansing residents, Newport said. "It brings the community together," she said. The event was organized by the Rather Hall government, said Dan Blenman, Rather Hall government president and premedical freshman. "On Halloween, (students) could be going out and making destructive decisions, or they could stay in and have just as much or even more fun," Blenman said. Students love to interact with the community, Dombrowski said. "It shows that the students do care," she said.
Project F.I.S.H. will be holding a workshop on campus for all MSU students to get informed and involved in sport fishing and aquatic resource education. The program will be held from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
She's viewed the same scene four times in the last four years. But this was by the far the worst. Patricia Johannes had only one word to describe a slimy attack on Beaumont Tower on Sunday morning — horrifying. "It was just a horrible, shocking scene to walk up and see the eggs all over the tower and the doors — yolks everywhere," said Johannes, an on-call Agricultural Economics employee.
In the coming weeks, Barbara Kitchell will have to transform MSU's new Animal Cancer Care Clinic from a bright and airy 42,000-square-foot facility into a functioning, cutting-edge treatment center. But Kitchell, a professor of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, has undertaken lion-sized projects before. In December 2003, a keeper at Lansing's Potter Park Zoo noticed that Samburu, a male lion, was eating but still losing weight.
Provost Kim Wilcox has a tough job on his hands. He and a group of university vice provosts have to figure out how to dish out $9.7 million to 118 proposals from MSU's colleges as part of enhancing academic quality. The money was set aside by the MSU Board of Trustees for Wilcox to decide which academic programs, new or old, should receive the funding. Wilcox said there was more than $74 million worth of requests made. The provost-led committee has already met for almost five hours in the last two weeks and has finished discussing a portion of the proposals, and members hope to finish the task today. "There's an awful lot of very difficult decisions," he said.