With a projected shortage of 794,000 registered nurses nationwide in 2008, the MSU College of Nursing is stepping up to teach more students. Marilyn Rothert, Dean of the College of Nursing, has been working with Provost Lou Anna Simon to bring more nursing instructors to campus.
A little boy covered his ears and a young girl sitting in a shopping cart asked her father why everyone was yelling as more than 30 people gathered in front of Walmart, 3225 Towne Center Blvd., on Monday to protest its vending of Mt.
The MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education was packed with award-winning llamas and alpacas this weekend for Lamafest. The event, which shows and sells the animals and their products, brought people from across the country to MSU's campus. "Lamafest is one of the biggest llama shows in the Midwest," Lamafest co-Coordinator Sheryl Topliff said.
Following a year where members of ASMSU's Academic Assembly jokingly referred to an initiative to add candy to the business office as "the best thing we've done all year," student government officials laid out their plans for this year. Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers said the Student Assembly will look to gain publicity through on-campus events centered on the upcoming presidential election. "We're working to get celebrities or politicians in a roundtable discussion for students before the election," Schepers said. He envisioned something similar to a Michael Moore vs.
The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students had its first meeting Thursday evening at Erickson Kiva that focused on Satrang, the coalition's annual Indian dance show. The coalition voted to amend its constitution and add two more positions to the existing three involved in coordinating Satrang. "The show is huge.
A table full of paint supplies was set up for veteran and potential Graduate Employees Union members Thursday at the GEU's open house held at their office, 420 Albert Ave. The GEU members painted their own designs on black T-shirts with "g.e.u.
Different cultures dotted the room at the Chicano and Latino welcome reception Thursday. The Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs and Culturas de las Razas Unidas, or CRU, provided students with music and information at the Kellogg Center.
A new MSU Web site offers information and answers to first-year students looking for help adjusting to campus. The site, fyi.msu.edu, gives students answers to questions about housing and financial aid, along with advice on test and note-taking. Mary Beth Heeder, coordinator for the Academic Orientation Program, started the site because she was bothered by the stacks of paper given to students at AOP. "During AOP we give them so much information and half of it they look at us like we've got a few heads," she said.
After a series of traffic accidents both on and off campus Tuesday, MSU Police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor told motorists and pedestrians to stay attentive and have more patience. Four accidents happened during the day on Red Cedar Road, and there was a six-car pileup just off of campus that injured three people, sending two to a nearby hospital. A westbound driver on Red Cedar Road told police he didn't see whether the light at Shaw Road was red, McGlothian-Taylor said.
Heads bowed and eyes closed as linguistics and language instructor Helen Roy of the Ottawa tribe said a prayer in Ojibwe at the American Indian Student Welcome Reception Wednesday evening. Roy said in her prayer she was glad to see students following their dreams and her wish was for teachers to help them on their journey. "Language has been lost within the Native community for decades - hundreds of years already," Roy said.
The Michigan Humanities Council will celebrate its 30th anniversary and honor four MSU projects in the process. With the limited edition of its 30th Anniversary Commemorative Publication, the council features its top projects. Four of the hundreds of MSU's humanities projects are focused on in the publication. Council-funded projects have included exhibits from the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture, Kresge Art Museum and the MSU Museum. The Michigan Humanities Council receives funding from Congress which allows them to grant money to various programs as long as the projects meet a few required standards that are applied by the council's board. The council has funded more than 1,500 projects since 1974, said Scott Hirko, spokesman for the Michigan Humanities Council. Since 1999, MSU alone has received more than $150,000 in grants from the group. "Our relationship with MSU has been a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate diversity in cultures, history, heritage and community impact," Hirko said. "I believe we have funded more projects at MSU then any other organization in the state, working mostly with the Kresge Art Museum and the MSU Museum." The long-term relationship has been vital to the university, MSU Museum spokeswoman Lora Helou said. "This is a tremendous honor to be named among 30 that has impacted the council in such a way that would encourage them to include our works within their publication," she said.
Sparty's Convenience Stores have launched a fund-raiser titled "Sparty's for Sparty," but many students have yet to notice.
The Academic Assembly of ASMSU met Tuesday night to discuss goals for the new semester and fill open committee seats for Academic Council. Michelle Beaujean, representative for the College of Education, spoke with strong conviction about the internal squabbles that plagued MSU's undergraduate student government last year. A group formed in ASMSU last year, called the reform alliance, pushed for revamping the structure of the assemblies.
The Michigan Education Trust enrollment period opened Wednesday and will run through June 15. The program, which has sold about 74,000 contracts since its creation in 1988, allows individuals to buy contracts for college at the current rate of tuition while the student is still in elementary, middle or high school.
A New Global Environment for Learning, or ANGEL, is undergoing maintenance to increase its speed, said Richard Wiggins, MSU senior information technologist.
The MSU College of Law has established two new master's programs designed to help future lawyers in the field of intellectual property law.
Women who suffer from frequent yeast infections might soon be able to find relief in a preventive treatment. A recent study by Wayne State University's Jack D.
In its third year, McDonel Hall's all-Spanish, all-the-time floor, La Casa, has residents and professors taking a step back to evaluate its growth.
The first president of the Black Student Alliance, Dr. Richard Thomas, spoke at the group's Welcome Reception on Tuesday. Thomas is a history professor at MSU, who also did his undergraduate studies here.
The MSU Bike Project held its first public fund-raiser bicycle clinic at Demonstration Hall Tuesday, in response to a growing demand for bikes.