Terri Shaver is the founder and executive director of The Oldham Project, a nonprofit photography organization that provides free portraits for people with life-threatening or terminal illnesses. Her most recent campaign is aimed at women who have lost their hair from the effects of chemotherapy.
The 2010-11 Faculty Biennial Exhibition begins with an opening reception from 7-9 p.m. at Kresge Art Museum. The exhibition will showcase the work faculty members in the Department of Art and Art History have completed throughout the past two years.
Fall Open House for MSU’s Community Music School, or CMS, will take place from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the CMS building, 841-B Timberlane St.
The International Health Project Volleyball Fundraiser will take place all day Saturday at Lake Lansing Park South.
The string group Trio Terzetto, which includes Okemos native, Tanya Ell, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
The MSU Center for Poetry, which is within the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, held its annual “Walk. Chalk. Poetry.” event, which gave students the opportunity to create their own poetry, or rewrite another piece on the side-walks around the Red Cedar River.
Mallory Hines, an MSU alumna and Lowell, Mich., native is working at a local café until her Sept. 24 departure to Santiago, Chile, where she will spend the next five months participating in outreach events and earthquake-relief work through Youth With A Mission, or YWAM.
Along with six other students in a documentary film class, Nicholas Baker, a media arts and technology senior, created “Publicly Defended,” a documentary chronicling the legal trevails of Eddie Joe Lloyd, who was released from jail in 2002 after a DNA test proved him innocent in the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl from Detroit in 1985.
Wharton Center is opening its doors for the 2010-11 school year with a magical nanny and a talking ogre leading the pack of world-renowned acts making their way to campus.
The University Activities Board, in collaboration with the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, the Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions and others, will be sponsored Spartan Remix from 7-10 p.m. Thursday at the Union.
Stuart Gage’s interests extend further than bugs and his work extends beyond retirement from MSU. In the years leading up to his retirement, he has been an integral part of MSU’s environmental initiative for a more sustainable campus.
Michael Nelson, an MSU associate professor of environmental ethics, will be readings essays from the book “Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril,” for which he is the editor, at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Centre Blvd., in Lansing.
The Lansing Urban Farm Project — an initiative started by MSU professors — will be selling its produce at the Urbandale Farm Stand from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday at 653 S. Hayford St., in Lansing.
Free T-shirts and tie-dying materials will be provided for Tye Dye Craft Night from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday at the Union’s East Lawn.
The MSU Fencing Club will be holding practice 8:30-10:30 p.m. on Monday through Thursday in Gym 1 of IM West.
The College of Music is hosting a guest artist recital by singer Janet Williams and pianist Alan Nathan at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Music Building Auditorium.
The Old Town Commercial Association, or OTCA, and the Lansing Economic Development Corporation, or LEDC, will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday in Lansing’s Old Town.
MSU alumnus Roman Stotland, communication and economics senior Ajay Arumugam and MSU alumnus Justin Rappaport met as student employees at MSU’s College of Education. But since July 2009, they have been business founders of SocialTab Inc., a company that will offer products and services related to social media and public relations.
Brianna Gardner, who is a senior double majoring in both finance and telecommunication, information studies and media, spent the summer working in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship Program in Los Angeles, California.
When he discovered the field of engineering, David Crouse fell in love with what he said seemed to be an expanded version of his treasured plastic bricks. Combined with home-schooling, his inquisitive personality and high school achievements, this passion has led Crouse to become one of three of MSU’s University Distinguished Scholars for 2010.