A team of MSU instructors and students is developing a computer video game to educate people — primarily kids — in Cambodia on how to avoid land mines and other explosive jungle perils. The team created a maze-like video game that uses image repetition to embed warning signals in players’ minds.
Jen Ganzhorn, a 2009 MSU alumna, was a featured artist Friday in (SCENE) Metrospace’s “3-in-1 Show” exhibiting three bronze statues and four other pieces made during her time at MSU. The show was the kick-off event for (SCENE) Metrospace’s 3-in-1 gallery exhibition.
The Spartans are sending six wrestlers to the championships for the first time since 2003 as they finished seventh at the conference championships and saw four wrestlers secure automatic selections and two others receive at-large bids.
In almost every MSU loss this season, one opposing player has stepped up to take down the Spartans. On Friday, with the Spartans taking an overtime lead and grabbing momentum, Minnesota guard Devoe Joseph put the Golden Gophers on his back.
More than 20 students, ranging in age from 5 to 17 years old, performed a piece or two at the MSU Community Music School All-School Recital, which featured young Community Music School, or CMS, pianists and violinists from the local area. CMS, an outreach division of the MSU College of Music, provides music lessons to students of all ages.
The No. 10 MSU hockey team couldn’t have drawn a worse opponent in the quarterfinals of the CCHA Tournament.
Too often this season, regardless of whether it’s a win or a loss, the MSU women’s basketball team has talked about losing focus. With the stakes high and a trip to the Big Ten Tournament championship game on the line, lost focus cost the Spartans dearly.
After such an impressive start, the No. 10 MSU hockey team’s season is likely over much earlier than many would have thought.
With about four minutes remaining in the MSU men’s basketball team’s Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal game Friday, head coach Tom Izzo walked to the end of the bench and spoke briefly with Chris Allen. Normally, that’s presubstitution standard procedure — offer a few words of instruction and send him in to relieve a teammate. You can bet that’s what both Izzo and the junior guard wished the meeting was about.
For the entire month of March, MSU’s Community Music School encourages those interested in taking lessons to bring a friend when attending a program at CMS.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the MSU Women’s Resource Center is offering coupons for women to use in any of the 13 residential dining halls from Tuesday to March 26.
Kresge Art Museum, Gallery 101, is featuring “%$#&!: A Comics Exhibition” from Monday until the end of March.
The internationally acclaimed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Miss spring break already? Revisit the tropical memories with this tropical vegan dessert.
For the past 29 years, the Caravan Youth Center has brought in the classic family spectacle of laughing clowns with painted faces and big red noses, trained tigers performing tricks, costumed trapeze artists twisting and spinning through the air and jugglers tossing brightly colored balls — the circus — to Breslin Center.
The No. 5 seed MSU men’s basketball team will start its march to the Final Four in Indianapolis against No. 12 seed New Mexico State at 7:20 p.m. Friday at Spokane, Wash. The Spartans or the Aggies will face the winner of the first round match between No. 4 seed Maryland and No. 13 seed Houston on Sunday.
I was astounded to read the State News editorial justifying raises for William Strampel, dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine (58 percent), Marsha Rappley, dean of the College of Human Medicine (26 percent) and Provost Kim Wilcox (20 percent) — all within a three-year period.
I am writing with a concern about the State News editorial “Royal Hanneford Circus should remain on campus”:http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2010/03/royal_hanneford_circus_should_remain_on_campus_ (SN 3/5). I myself am an avid animal rights activist.
According to a recent report released by the Department of Homeland Security’s, or DHS, Office of Inspector General, between 2006 and 2008 the department lost 289 weapons in the line of duty. No amount of language can demonstrate the actual gravity of this properly enough, so I will just state it as plainly as possible: DHS agents literally lost and forgot their weapons.
Many students might be shocked to learn that after MSU veterinary students perform educational surgery on a live animal, the subjects are euthanized shortly thereafter. That method soon will be history now that MSU has decided to change its policies on the use of live animals for learning — a right move as long as the quality of education doesn’t suffer.