The third annual MSU Women's Leadership Conference will take place from 1:30-7:30 p.m. Sunday. Registration for the event will continue until the conference is full. The event is geared to female MSU students, but is open to anyone.
Author Jack Driscoll is speaking as part of the Michigan Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday in room W449 of the Main Library. Driscoll has written four poetry books, a collection of short stories and three novels.
An interior design seminar will be held Friday at the Henry Center for Executive Development, 3535 Forest Road in Lansing. "A View of Excellence Design Trek 2005," sponsored by the MSU chapter of American Society of Interior Designers, is for young designers and students.
The jury trial for the only student fighting his April 2-3 disturbance-related charges was finished before it began on Tuesday. MSU advertising senior Scott Riddle was charged with obstructing a police officer and a roadway following the disturbances. After the prosecution asked for an adjournment to gather more witnesses, East Lansing 54-B District Judge Richard Ball commented on articles about Riddle published in The State News and decided to release the jurors and select a new jury pool on Nov.
MSU and Grand Rapids community leaders are inching closer to a decision about the future of the university's College of Human Medicine. Stakeholders in a proposed expansion of the college are scheduled to meet today in Grand Rapids to continue discussions about the project, and the group's final report could be in the works. During the summer, specialized work groups looked into the feasibility of different aspects of the project. The work groups were coordinated by Van Andel Institute Chief Administrative Officer Steve Heacock, who was charged with facilitating discussions among the stakeholders. Heacock said he has spent the last month and a half talking with the chairpersons of those work groups and drafting a report of recommendations.
Ever since Charley Fawcett was diagnosed with HIV, he has dreamed of being able get the word out about HIV/AIDS. "It's been 10 years since I was diagnosed with HIV and the whole time I wanted to go to Washington and talk to Congress," Fawcett said.
Speaking to students about entrepreneurship, the makers of Glacéau Vitamin Water, Fruit Water and Smartwater will be on campus today. From 5:25-6:25 p.m.
A one-day history conference will be hosted Wednesday by MSU's Julian Samora Research Institute.
Dressed up as a pirate, Kristin Dombrowski painted a sparkly moon and stars on the face of 11-year-old Morgan Newport, who was a half-angel and half-devil for Halloween. "(The children) are so happy when they come through, I just keep coming back," said Dombrowski, a telecommunication, information studies and media and studio art junior, who has participated in on-campus Halloween events for the past few years. MSU students organized trick-or-treating in Rather Hall on Monday evening as a way to provide safe, fun activities for local residents. Morgan's mom, East Lansing resident Jennifer Newport, said she has brought her children to trick-or-treat at residence halls for more than 12 years. The event is one way to improve relations between students and permanent East Lansing residents, Newport said. "It brings the community together," she said. The event was organized by the Rather Hall government, said Dan Blenman, Rather Hall government president and premedical freshman. "On Halloween, (students) could be going out and making destructive decisions, or they could stay in and have just as much or even more fun," Blenman said. Students love to interact with the community, Dombrowski said. "It shows that the students do care," she said.
Project F.I.S.H. will be holding a workshop on campus for all MSU students to get informed and involved in sport fishing and aquatic resource education. The program will be held from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
A public hearing to remove limits on the number of political yard signs displayed per premises will be held at the East Lansing City Council meeting today at City Hall.
She's viewed the same scene four times in the last four years. But this was by the far the worst. Patricia Johannes had only one word to describe a slimy attack on Beaumont Tower on Sunday morning — horrifying. "It was just a horrible, shocking scene to walk up and see the eggs all over the tower and the doors — yolks everywhere," said Johannes, an on-call Agricultural Economics employee.
In the coming weeks, Barbara Kitchell will have to transform MSU's new Animal Cancer Care Clinic from a bright and airy 42,000-square-foot facility into a functioning, cutting-edge treatment center. But Kitchell, a professor of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, has undertaken lion-sized projects before. In December 2003, a keeper at Lansing's Potter Park Zoo noticed that Samburu, a male lion, was eating but still losing weight.
A DeWitt Township man died while at Spartan Stadium during Saturday's game. MSU police say David Gamble, born in 1938, had a heart attack at about 1 p.m.
Mich. author to talk about local pottery Marcy Heller Fisher, author of "Fired Magic: Detroit's Pewabic Pottery Treasures," will present a history of Michigan Pewabic tiles and Pewabic pottery at 7 p.m.
Provost Kim Wilcox has a tough job on his hands. He and a group of university vice provosts have to figure out how to dish out $9.7 million to 118 proposals from MSU's colleges as part of enhancing academic quality. The money was set aside by the MSU Board of Trustees for Wilcox to decide which academic programs, new or old, should receive the funding. Wilcox said there was more than $74 million worth of requests made. The provost-led committee has already met for almost five hours in the last two weeks and has finished discussing a portion of the proposals, and members hope to finish the task today. "There's an awful lot of very difficult decisions," he said.
The preliminary examination in the Welcome Week felonious assault case has been rescheduled to Nov. 18.
A Troy resident was struck by a Honda Accord as she crossed Grand River Avenue near Milford Street on Friday night, East Lansing police report. The 18-year-old pedestrian was in the far westbound lane when the car, driven by an 18-year-old East Lansing resident hit her, East Lansing police Sgt.
They came in costume, ready to race. Dogs dressed as flower pots, hot dogs and royalty lined up on the field next to the College of Veterinary Medicine on Sunday, as part of a costume contest prior to the fourth annual Canine Cruise 5K Run/Walk. The event, held to benefit MSU's Sponsor-A-Dog program, featured the pets' owners racing with their dogs.