The annual MSU Garden Plant Showcase will take place all day Tuesday at the Plant and Soil Science Building and Trial Gardens. The showcase will feature MSU faculty and staff discussing top-performing plants.
This fall, the MSU Museum’s Quilt Index — an online database of more than 50,000 quilt images — will prepare to expand its resources internationally, using an almost $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, or IMLS. The IMLS is the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums. The Quilt Index was one of 13 national recipients to receive one-year project planning grants.
After releasing her first full-length pop/R&B album “Trouble” this year, recent MSU graduate Crystal Williams, who goes by the stage name Jenna Milan, said she is ready to continue pursuing her music career now that she is done with school.
Wow! The summer of 2010 is just about in the history books as a done deal. What have we accomplished? I always ask this question as a new school year approaches. I seem to forget that for some of us, the previous school year never ended. If one came back to campus to take summer classes, much of what others considered “summer break” was little more than business as usual.
It is not often we are able to use the word “magnanimous.” But with the recent philanthropy of a few billionaires, there aren’t many other words that immediately come to mind. Among those individuals is MSU alumnus Eli Broad. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? If not, you can find his name on MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business or alongside his wife’s name on the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, set to open in 2012.
Graffiti is an illegal act of vandalism that rose to notoriety as a form of communication between gang members. But throughout recent years, graffiti has parted from its roots and, as some area artists and MSU students said, is taking hold as a form of modern art.
Although gay rights advocates across the nation might be claiming victory after a federal judge overturned a same-sex marriage ban in California, the fight more than 2,000 miles away is to some Michiganians a reminder of the state’s own unresolved legislation on the matter.
A billionaire MSU alumnus and his wife have joined 40 of the nation’s wealthiest families by pledging to donate a majority of their fortune to philanthropic organizations.
When Bob Hoffman, the public relations manager for Wharton Center, was cut off by a woman driving in front of him, he had no idea it would lead to the grassroots nonprofit movement ePIFanyNow.org. Hoffman invited friends to do the same, resulting in 250 people at Dublin Square Irish Pub, 327 Abbot Road, for the inaugural Pass It Forward party in February 2009, which was hosted by the website.
About 90 percent of pregnant women who discover their child will be born with Down syndrome have an abortion, but Jamie Rahrig, the vice president of activities and events for the Capital Area Down Syndrome Association, or CADSA sported her “proud parent” T-shirt Saturday, which displayed a picture of her 6-year-old son, Jackson, who has Down syndrome. Rahrig and CADSA hosted an inaugural scavenger hunt event Saturday, which was used not only to garner funds for other CADSA functions, but also to raise awareness about the genetic disorder.
Seventeen graduates from an MSU political training program will compete in the Michigan November general elections to become legislators in the state House of Representatives. Since the Michigan Political Leadership Program, or MPLP, began at MSU in 1992, 10 graduates have served in the House and six currently serve.
Friday was the annual Garden Day at MSU, led and organized by the MSU Horticulture Gardens, and with a dozen workshops and two keynote speakers, including the director of the MSU Horticulture Gardens, Art Cameron. The day is an opportunity for the public to learn how to be successful gardeners.
A decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the day has come to symbolize supporting America through service. To commemorate the anniversary, MSU will collaborate with Habitat for Humanity and Whirlpool Corp. for its 2010 Whirlpool Building Blocks program. The nation-wide program has targeted seven different communities in which to build a house, and MSU is the first college campus to be involved in the project.
MSU received $1 million from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation last week to help students at MSU’s College of Human Medicine get life-like experience as pediatric doctors. The grant will fund a pediatric simulation center containing high-tech mannequins used to simulate actual humans for pediatric students to practice on.
Sunday marked the beginning of the 2010 season for the MSU football team, as players reported for physicals and team meetings. Preseason practice begins today, as the Spartans officially begin to prepare for the 115th season of MSU football.
Four MSU swimmers competed at the 2010 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships from Aug. 3-7 in Irvine, Calif., where one Spartan reached two event finals.
MSU junior diver Sarah Clay has qualified to compete in the AT&T National Diving Championships from Tuesday until Sunday in College Station, Texas.
For the third time in school history, the MSU men’s basketball team will take on the Chaminade Swords when the two teams play in the opening round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational at 9:30 p.m. Nov. 22 in Maui, Hawaii. It will be the first time the two teams have faced each other since 2005, when the Spartans beat the Swords, 89-67, also at the Maui Invitational.
For jazz musician and Okemos resident Neil Gordon, Lansing JazzFest 2010 was not only about jazz music, but also the feeling of a community coming together. The annual festival, which is now in its 16th year, happened Friday and Saturday in Lansing’s Old Town. The event is one of many festivals thrown in Old Town to celebrate a variety of different musical genres, with this one focused on bringing jazz to the Lansing area and its residents.
It seems we live in a paradoxical society. Our two-party political system has let fall issues — on both sides — that contradict the logicality of their respective philosophies; perhaps that’s why most civilized countries maintain a multi-party system.