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MSU alumna discusses immigration reform

Aseel Machi
June 14, 2010

Sharing her past memories of obstacles growing up as an immigrant in America and her ideas for immigration policies and reform, MSU alumna Iris Gomez, Immigrants’ Protection Project of the Mass. Law Reform Institute director and author of the novel “Try to Remember,” spoke with the East Lansing community Monday evening at the Edgewood United Church. Hosted by the church, the event addressed an overview of policy reforms and unique perspectives of these reforms from local citizens and immigrants, said Barbara Thibeault, who works in the MSU School of Social Work and organized of the event.

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MSU, MDOT partener for road study

Ashley Brown
June 14, 2010

A partnership between MSU and the Michigan Department of Transportation, or MDOT, could bring enhanced awareness of traffic and road conditions to drivers after university research with infrastructure-sensing technology is complete. MSU obtained a three-year grant of $400,000 from the Federal Highway Administration to develop a technology that can track and store data from vehicles by the weight of their loads as they drive over sensors in the roadways.

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Bean grant seeks health gains

Meagan Choi
June 14, 2010

Jim Kelly, a professor in the MSU Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, is a co-principal director of a $4 million project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, which involves 10 institutions to discover new nutritional benefits of the common bean and provide the corresponding tools for plant breeders. Kelly, whose specialty is dry bean breeding and genetics, said the Common Bean Coordinated Agricultural Project, or BeanCAP, will be identifying and matching genetic markers from different dry bean varieties — such as navy, black, pinto and kidney — to about 15 nutritional characteristics, including anti-cancer properties, vitamins and minerals.

MICHIGAN

Vote 2010 kicks off with campaigning

Karen Confer
June 14, 2010

In a kickoff event for Vote 2010, a flurry of volunteers knocked on doors in East Lansing neighborhoods Saturday, asking students to sign pledges of voting in the November elections. Set up by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee, the kickoff event in East Lansing was one of dozens across the state. Volunteers went door-to-door and asked residents to sign a pledge to vote in November.

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Link discovered between bipolar disorder, hypertension

Ashley Brown
June 14, 2010

A researcher at MSU has found a link between bipolar disorder and hypertension, which he said could help the treatment for both ailments. Dale D’Mello, an associate professor in the MSU Department of Psychiatry, said patients with bipolar disorder tend to suffer from a higher rate of hypertension, obesity, diabetes and more manic episodes than normal patients.

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Glass artist to be featured at MSU

Andrew Krietz
June 14, 2010

The work of glass artist Craig Mitchell Smith will be featured this Friday through Sunday at the MSU Horticulture Gardens. Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is the theme of the show, with each work crafted specifically with the theme in mind.

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MSU Observatory to host free stargazing

Pat Evans
June 14, 2010

Stargazers will have several opportunities to observe the solar system this summer at the MSU Observatory, located on the corner of Forest and College Roads. The public observings will be offered 9:30-11 p.m. June 18 and 19, and July 16 and 17, if weather conditions permit.

MICHIGAN

Summer Solstice Jazz Festival to hit E.L.

Pat Evans
June 14, 2010

The Summer Solstice Jazz Festival will hit downtown East Lansing from June 18-20. The festival is a joint production by the city of East Lansing, Wharton Center and the MSU College of Music. The two headliners are Somi, a New York-based singer/songwriter and Joe Lovano, an internationally-known jazz performer.

FEATURES

T-shirt company fights water shortages

Cole Bertsos
June 14, 2010

Last May, history senior Ben Lutz began to mull over ways he could put his aspirations into action, and by August he had developed an idea to begin what has now become DIPSAO, a T-shirt company where all the proceeds go to globalwater.org, a global water relief fund.

SPORTS

MSU senior plays in rugby all-star game

Jeremy Warnemuende
June 14, 2010

A standout soccer player in high school, psychology and kinesiology senior Alexandria Jamison said she could have played college soccer somewhere else, but decided to come to MSU instead. Within her first year on campus, she was introduced to rugby, the game she now loves, at a women’s rugby football club practice that she almost didn’t attend.

COMMENTARY

Izzo has done enough for MSU

There is one thing on the mind of most Spartans fans right now: What will MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo do next? The mania has swept the area. Fans have held at least two official rallies — one at Breslin Center and another at the Marshall Street Armory in Lansing.

NEWS

Overcome with Pride

Meagan Choi
June 13, 2010

Downtown Lansing and the city’s Old Town were abuzz this weekend for Michigan Pride 2010, an annual event held in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. A parade, march to the Capitol, a mass commitment ceremony and performances by a country music singer were among the weekend’s festivities, which for most was a chance to be part of a united community.

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Fans launch Izzo support campaign

Pat Evans
June 13, 2010

As men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo continues mulling over a possible jump to the NBA, fans have launched a new campaign to show their support. Launched during the weekend, the “We Love Izzo” campaign will expand Monday from lawn signs and a website to billboards and banners throughout Lansing and East Lansing.

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Faculty begin move to Secchia Center

Emily Wilkins
June 13, 2010

After more than two years of construction, faculty have begun moving into the MSU College of Human Medicine’s Secchia Center in Grand Rapids, several months prior to the building’s grand opening in September.