Susan Long discussed ethical questions raised by the role of technology in caring for frail, elderly people and the influence of culture in the matter during her lecture Tuesday. Long’s presentation was the last in a series of lectures given throughout the semester.
There will be a blood drive in Gilchrist Hall on Monday. The drive is being sponsored by the Red Cross and will run from noon to 6 p.m. in the Gilchrist pub.
The MSU Women’s Resource Center will host an event called A Legal Guide to Divorce from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Lake Superior Room on the third floor of the Union.
The MSU Institute for Public Policy and Social Research will host an event called Michigan’s Economic Turnaround from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Mackinac Room of the Anderson House Office Building, 124 N. Capitol Ave., in Lansing.
Elder HeART tours, offered by the Kresge Art Museum, are meant to provide hope and connect individuals and their caregivers while promoting art as a way of forming conversations to evoke memories the elderly patients don’t often experience.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio said Tuesday that junior wide receiver Fred Smith has been reinstated to the team while defensive tackle Oren Wilson, who would have been a senior, is in the process of transferring.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant specifically is looking toward juniors Kalisha Keane, Brittney Thomas and Cetera Washington, along with sophomore Lykendra Johnson, to step in and become the new generation of leaders.
For years, the MSU baseball team has been near or below .500 entering Big Ten play, needing a miracle run in the conference to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. But with a 22-6 record for one of the best starts in school history, every win counts toward a possible at-large bid to the tournament in June.
I do think the U.S. and Russia should have a small but substantial stockpile to keep each other and the world in check, but more than 3,000 each is a tad overkill. But I suppose this isn’t Hollywood, and Superman can’t just toss all the nuclear missiles into the sun all at once.
Transparency with the public about what could happen and being up front with the numbers involved with projects also would be preferred. The city has a plan in place and should provide residents with regular reports on how it is doing in paying back the debt from the bonds.
Junior guard Kalin Lucas has decided to return for his senior season, his father confirmed Tuesday. Kenneth Lucas said his son had talked with a few NBA general managers to see where his draft stock stood, but was leaning toward returning before Lucas suffered a season-ending Achilles injury.
The stage went white with light and then, after an anxious audience had waited through four opening acts, the crowd finally got what they wanted and he appeared — a smiling, dancing, T-shirt clad Kid. Kid Cudi, that is.
After seeing a picture of scarred 12-year-old Mohammed while serving in Iraq, Maj. David Howell made a promise to the boy’s mother: He’d take Mohammed to the U.S., get a doctor to operate on his burned body, and return him in a year. Twelve months later, Howell’s promise has forever changed the Iraqi boy as they prepare to depart from Lansing to return to Iraq.
MSU’s graduate student government plans to create fellowships for graduate or professional students in the years to come, using an initial endowment of about $125,000. COGS plans to use 5 percent, or $6,250, of its endowment for the fellowships each academic year starting in 2011-12.
Salaries for full-time faculty in various capacities at MSU increased in 2009-10 at rates higher than the national average and most Big Ten institutions, according to data from a report released Monday on faculty salaries across the U.S. Figures from the report showed salaries for full-time MSU faculty increased at percentages above and sometimes double the national average of 1.2 percent from the year previous.
A 19-year-old male MSU student reported his iPod and student ID stolen Tuesday from IM Sports-West, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The student left his iPod and his ID unattended in the gym where he was playing basketball.
A sunny Saturday brought crowds to Lansing’s Old Town last weekend for the third annual Taste and Tour of Old Town event organized by the Old Town Commercial Association, or OTCA. A ticket to the event bought tourists a food sample from 10 different area restaurants and a tour of 11 lofts.
It’s a part of campus that most students never will visit, but for Walker Hancock, the Student Organic Farm is her version of the MSU experience — an experience that will see a few positive changes this year. Hancock is one of many students, volunteers and community members involved in the Student Organic Farm who soon will be learning and working with a new mobile greenhouse as well as experiencing changes in the Organic Farmer Training Program.
In dangerous situations, knowledge can be the best defense. Of course, a jab in the nose is a good back-up when that fails. A free self-defense program will be offered Tuesday night as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
MSU is at the helm of a worldwide sustainability research effort aimed at examining and raising awareness of present-day interactions between people and the environment.