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WEB ONLY: 'U' professor to use grant to develop software

Evan Rondeau
June 3, 2004

An associate professor in Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs School said he is hoping he can use a grant of more than $255,000 to transform a computer program about evolution into a teaching tool to show students how the process works. Robert Pennock will use funds he received from the National Science Foundation to create a new interface for the existing program to make it more visually stimulating and easier to understand.

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'U' students could win $8,000 for film

Rebecca Mcnulty
June 1, 2004

The idea of sharing and downloading music in 1995 was unheard of. In 2025, however, file sharing, particularly that of Napster, has almost destroyed the record industry, so the band Metallica sends a machine back to 1995 to kill the fictitious creator of Napster, Don O'Conner.

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WEB ONLY: After nearly 4 decades, Agriculture prof bids goodbye to 'U'

In his fourth floor Agriculture Hall office, Joe Levine is surrounded by souvenirs. Some he has collected over the years on various travels, like the puppets and books from Indonesia and the lamp with the clarinet base he made himself after spending a summer as a clarinet student at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Most of them, though, are from former colleagues and students who have traveled abroad and returned with a gift-a testament to the legacy that Levine has left on their lives.

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MSU coalition to dole out $160K in grants

Sarah Al-ramadhan
May 27, 2004

Focused on supporting the well-being of children and families, the Families and Communities Together Coalition (FACT) at MSU is granting $160,000 to four research projects dedicated to preventing overweight children, domestic violence, sexual harassment of high school students and literacy about genetics research. "We believe each project has great potential to create significant impacts," FACT co-Director Janet Bokemeier said. Grant recipients will be examining gendered bullying among rural high schools, genetics literacy and informed consent, young child overweight prevention study, and evaluation of group intervention for women and children experiencing domestic violence.

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Group defends students' file sharing against RIAA

The nine MSU students who face punishment from the Recording Industry Association of America are not alone. Activist groups, fellow students and artists stand by the file sharers. One such group, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, is no stranger to the struggle between file sharers and the RIAA.

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DPPS tags bikes to be impounded

Campus is on orange alert. Brightly colored orange stickers have sprung up everywhere attached to unregistered bicycles because they are in violation of MSU Board of Trustees Ordinance 33.

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'U' formula car cruises to international meet

Sarah Al-ramadhan
May 18, 2004

Lovingly, a few students wiped dew drops off their self-made formula racing car Monday, following a heavy rainfall - allowing the green gleam of the car's fresh paint to shine all the brighter. Starting Wednesday, the student-built race car will compete in the Society of Automotive Engineering International Competition at the Pontiac Silverdome. Last year, MSU placed third overall. After dedicating a full year to creating, building and designing the car, the MSU Formula SAE team is optimistic about racing its newly designed car against those from schools in 139 countries. "It's the best car we've had yet," said Nick Periat, an engineering arts senior at MSU and the project's chief engineer.

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Act to ease tuition fees

Agnes Soriano
May 18, 2004

Racial, ethnic and economic minority students will not be disappearing from MSU lecture halls and dorm rooms this fall if the College Access and Opportunity Act passes. The bill, which recently was proposed in the U.S.

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'U' upgrades ANGEL program

Rebecca Mcnulty
May 17, 2004

When students go to print their syllabus off of A New Global Environment for Learning, or ANGEL, they will see a very different program from the soon to be retired Blackboard system.

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Speakers to address agricultural issues

Sarah Al-ramadhan
May 17, 2004

MSU Extension Manure Management Team is sponsoring a two-day seminar from 9-4 p.m. May 25-26 at the DeWitt Banquet and Conference Center in DeWitt to discuss agricultural operations and how they impact the quality of air. Speakers include faculty from MSU and the University of Minnesota.