The School of Criminal Justice is hosting its annual career fair from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday in Big Ten Rooms A and B in Kellogg Center. The fair is sponsored by the American Criminal Justice Association, Alpha Phi Sigma and the Criminal Justice Honor Society in collaboration with the school.
Dawn Counts knows what it feels like to be a kid again.Standing behind the microphone, the law student compared a significant other to the joys of childhood.
Five master of business administration students took second place honors at Wake Forest University's annual Babcock MBA Marketing Case Competition held Jan.
Standing atop a wooden platform, Bindi Patel asked Roberto Alcantar to wear a pink poster on his back and walk around Munn Ice Arena. "I can't wear it!
Lansing - Two MSU professors have been awarded the 2003 Diana Award recognizing women in the area who lend their time and knowledge to community service and professional achievements. The first winner, Margaret Aguwa, is a professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. The second award recipient, Karen Williams, is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology in the MSU College of Human Medicine. Both women have participated in events that had a positive effect on women and children as well as working toward the elimination of racism in the community. "I was very excited when I heard that I had received the award," Williams said. Williams was nominated by Helena Dubose, general manager of WXLA (1180-AM). She nominated Williams because of her great involvement in many community groups.
Plaid shirts, cowboy hats and blue jeans adorned members of the Ramsey family as they walked around the concourse of Munn Ice Arena this weekend to raise money for cancer research.Physiology sophomore Ross Ramsey watched his family in the third annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
Lansing police responded to 911 calls Sunday morning and found a female at the intersection of Richmond Street and Mary Avenue dead after an apparent homicide. Calls came in during the morning from people who heard screaming and shots being fired.
By the time Nicole Bobiney got back to her Emmons Hall room, it was too late in the day for her to switch her classes. "I had a lot of problems with it," the psychology freshman said.
Lansing - The Greater Lansing Network Against War in Iraq has joined forces with the police department to promote safety during their statewide peace march on Feb.
After working in mental health during its "rabid deinstitutionalization" years ago, state Sen.
About 100 MSU students learned the right fork to use for their appetizer, salad, main course and dessert when they were given a number of utensils to choose from Tuesday at the Kellogg Center.The MSU Alumni Association and the Senior Class Council sponsored a manners and etiquette dinner at which speaker Pattie McNiel showed students step by step how to eat properly at formal dinners."We're doing this so hopefully they'll be ready to go out in the real world," said McNiel, coordinator of the Distance Learning Program in the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.This is the third year of the dinner, for which McNiel said she personally knows of someone who's benefited from it - her son."Shortly after he went to it, he started his job interviews," she said.
Orchesis, a student-organized dance club, will perform "Re-Inventing Skin!" at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m.
The Capital Area United Way's former Finance Chief Jacquelyn Allen-MacGregor admitted to stealing $1.88 million Thursday in U.S.
MSU is one of two facilities in the state to perform a new breast tumor shrinking procedure. The procedure, called cryoablation, was approved about a year ago for the removal of benign tumors and is offered by the MSU Department of Surgery and Harper Hospital in Detroit.About 80 percent of all breast tumors are benign.To qualify for the procedure, patients need to have a biopsy to ensure that the tumor is benign and is no larger than 2 centimeters.Most tumors are surgically removed but cryoablation is cheaper, less painful and less damaging to skin tissue than the traditional method, department Chairwoman Carol Slomski said."People have been trying to figure out how to get rid of tumors without cutting them out for a long time," she said.
Lansing - Three women rush against the clock, scrambling to hammer iron, bend copper and turn a crank.
Bernice Johnson Reagon delicately began singing at the Kellogg Center on Thursday, then stopped suddenly."You know, I'm not supposed to sing this by myself," she said to the audience of about 50 people.With gathering strength, the crowd joined in on the freedom song, some singing loudly while others gently hummed.They escalated into singing a song about courage in the face of adversity.Reagon, an original member of the famed "Freedom Singers," renowned scholar, singer and founder of the "Sweet Honey in the Rock" a cappella ensemble, was the first of four professors to speak in the third annual Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series, sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine.The series, themed "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey," was created as a part of a special university fund for visiting minority faculty.Reagon talked about the unbroken faith of slaves and sticking out in a crowd, while singing songs of freedom, strength and power.As she began the program with the song "Sweet Honey on Me," she told a story about her pastor speaking of the importance of remembering history."If I remember what has come before me, if I actually acknowledge that I exist because of the running and stumbling and dying before me
Standing atop two stacked wooden blocks behind her podium and wearing high heels, 16-year-old Shuyu Wang, who isn't even 5 feet tall, was barely eye-to-eye with Alex Trebek. Her family watched nervously from the audience, and cheered their young scholar on with every correct answer. Wang's mother, Xiaozhu Pan, said watching her daughter compete on "Jeopardy!" this December was exciting and "a dream come true." An Okemos High School junior, Wang is a contestant on the "Jeopardy!
MSU is celebrating the 2003 Chicano Heritage Month with an array of activities to educate and inform students about the importance of their culture.Student groups such as Culturas de las Razas Unidas will host programs such as "Latin Explosion" and D