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MSU Museum creates online registry of Michigan’s stained glass

In 1992, Betty MacDowell was fresh off of a doctoral degree from MSU when the idea struck. She had heard about an effort on the East Coast to archive local stained glass windows, and after completing a dissertation about female stained glass artists in Michigan, she decided to start a similar project on her own.

FOOTBALL

Young offensive line learns from veterans

Although the team has the added support of junior running backs Edwin Baker and Larry Caper and sophomore running back Le’Veon Bell, MSU is going to miss the blocking reinforcements from former tight end Charlie Gantt. And heading into the season, the youthful offensive line remains one of the team’s biggest question marks.

COMMENTARY

Loan cuts hurt grad students, future

A bleak outlook lies ahead for current and future graduate students. Because of the debt ceiling deal reached by Republicans and Democrats in Congress last week, for next year and the foreseeable future, there will be no more federally subsidized loans for graduate students.

COMMENTARY

Let students in on info

We’ve all done it. At the end of the semester, as many as three different sheets of paperwork cycle the classroom or lecture hall en route to a fat envelope that some poor chap gets drafted into taking to an office somewhere, never to be seen again.

COMMENTARY

Age discrimination claim weak, spiteful

It’s extremely difficult to find a job in Michigan right now, no matter your age. But that’s not stopping one would-be MSU professor. Nicholas Spaeth, 61, filed an age discrimination complaint against the MSU College of Law in a U.S. District Court because he was denied an interview for a teaching position.

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Professors partner with marketing firm to increase volunteer awareness

A group of MSU professors has partnered with East Lansing-based marketing company Netvantage to begin Every Child is Yours, a program to increase awareness for volunteer opportunities in Greater Lansing. Every Child Is Yours is targeted toward presenting volunteer opportunities to the millennial generation, or those between the ages of 18-30.

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Professor to study fundraising

An MSU professor plans to study new and improved ways of online fundraising, research that could have implications for the university’s donation and fundraising efforts. Rick Wash, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, will use a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to explore crowd funding sites — applications that provide researchers or project sponsors with an outlet to receive donations geared specifically to their project. “I look at these sites as an electronic system that matches two sides,” Wash said. Examples of popular crowd funding sites range from dating sites to job-searching outlets, but Wash said the tactic also can be applied to various forms of university and college fundraising. Using computer simulations of different funding websites, Wash plans to develop the best possible approach to crowd funding, a tactic that he eventually hopes to apply to an MSU-themed donation site. On the site, students or people associated with the university could post various projects or ideas, and interested donors could contribute funding. The method even could extend to research projects being conducted at the university. “This is actually giving power to the donor,” said the university’s director of annual giving Kathleen Deneau, when discussing the potential for crowd funding at MSU.