Harold Sollenberger, a professor emeritus of accounting and information systems, has been named interim executive director of MSU’s campus in Dubai, the university announced Tuesday. Sollenberger temporarily will replace Brendan Mullan, who served as executive director of MSU Dubai for two years. Sollenberger’s appointment will begin June 1.
MSU will play Duke University Dec. 1 as part of the 12th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The teams will face off at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. It will be the second consecutive time MSU has played against a defending national champion in the Challenge.
Tuesday’s MSU baseball game against Michigan has been canceled due to inclement weather. The teams were scheduled to play at 3 p.m.
Jill Elfenbein, a professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences & Disorders, died Thursday from complications related to cancer. Elfenbein worked at MSU for 17 years. She was 58. Elfenbein’s colleagues, students and family members said her passion and commitment to her work will resonate at MSU.
John Powell was elected as the new chairperson of the Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, during a special ECAC meeting on Tuesday. Powell, an at-large ECAC member and former University Committee on Faculty Affairs chairman has served as chairperson of a task force on health care benefits and health affairs.
An Illinois man allegedly connected to an on-campus sexual assault in February pleaded guilty to reduced charges Friday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. Montague Stanford, 40, of Naperville, Ill., pleaded guilty to one count of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor offense which carries a maximum charge of one year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
More than 20 students are poised to graduate with 4.0 cumulative GPAs this semester. They do their best to balance academic and social lives, but say it isn’t always easy.
SADD hosted a noodle eating contest and fundraiser at Noodles & Company, 205 E. Grand River Ave., Thursday night, between 10 local police officers. Five members of the MSU and East Lansing police departments ate bowls of noodles one at a time in competition for the “Pig Bowl” trophy.
A 19-year-old female MSU student reported her laptop stolen Monday after she left it unattended at the Main Library.
The smoke is set to clear Saturday when a statewide smoking ban goes into effect, and many East Lansing residents and establishments said they see a positive future for businesses and society. Restaurant owners said implementing the law in May instead of when it was passed in December will help customers adjust while the weather is conducive to being outside.
Under a revision to a university policy, appointments to fixed-term employee positions made on or after March 1 can be ended before contractual expiration dates for budgetary reasons. The policy requires written notice be given to the employee 30 days before the date of termination.
This year will mark the 14th annual Pack Up, Pitch In, Help Out program at MSU as students prepare to leave for the summer. The program helps to promote environmental sustainability on campus by providing easy ways for students to recycle plastics, white paper, mixed paper, wood and carpet.
One week after he was elected Student Assembly Chairperson, Eric Branoff has resigned. Branoff gave up his seat at ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting Thursday night to accept a scholarship to study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.
When he was ordained in December 2008 after recovering from serious health complications, a pastor in the audience came up and said Jacque McDaniel would one day have his own church. On Tuesday, that proclamation will begin to come true.
Students looking to squeeze one last learning experience from MSU can attend this year’s concluding Brown Bag lecture at the MSU Museum Auditorium on Friday.
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” the classic rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, premiered on Broadway in 1971. Two years later, the play was adapted into a film starring Ted Neeley as Jesus. Now, 37 years later, Neeley is reprising his title role as part of the “A.D. Tour.” The play will run at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Auditorium. The State News sat down with Amber Hurst-Martin, a disciple girl and understudy for soul singer, to discuss what it is like working on “Jesus Christ Superstar” with the show’s legend, Neeley.
It felt odd to walk out of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on Thursday after the final class of my undergraduate career. Like most graduating seniors, I was relieved to be done, and felt a bit of sadness as well. But another emotion crept in: regret. I wondered if I really made the most of my time in that building, or in my entire time at MSU. And with graduation one week away, I’m realizing that, yes, I have a few regrets.
I have worked on the campus of MSU for 13 years and have been impressed by leadership’s efforts at research, teaching, recycling and building rehabilitation that support a green and sustainable campus. I have appreciated being invited to participate in making these efforts successful and my own behaviors have been altered significantly over the past decade.
This school year has been one to remember, but with a few tweaks, the 2010-11 academic year can be even better. Here are The State News Editorial Board’s suggestions — for a few select groups — to help make MSU students’ lives just a little bit better.
For a brief moment in March, the MSU men’s basketball team made a quiet movement that spoke volumes and embodied so many of those latter components of a game: Enduring adversity and pain, resolving conflict and demonstrating incredible camaraderie and emotion.