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Michigan artists to perform March 27
(SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., will host Chain of Lakes, Brian Westrin, and Brandon and Bethany Foote of Gifts or Creatures on March 27.
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MSU to host event on majors Thursday
MSU’s Undergraduate University Division will be hosting a Marathon of Majors from 5-7 p.m. Thursday on the first floor of Bessey Hall.
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Foundation awards MSU students money
The CHS Foundation recently granted three MSU students with $1,000 scholarships for their involvement in agriculture. Agribusiness management junior Kayla Lehman, animal science senior Rosemary Rice and crop and soil sciences senior Tim Wilke were awarded the scholarships.
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Wolverine death to be determined
The last known wild wolverine in Michigan was found dead about 60 miles northwest of Port Huron on Saturday and will be examined on MSU’s campus, according to The Detroit News. A female estimated to be 7 years old at the time of death, the wolverine was first seen in 2004, 90 miles north of Detroit.
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Rewarding hard work with bicycles
Curt “Grandad” Eure created the Kids Repair Program to reward local kids with bicycles for completing work in the community.
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MSU celebrates agriculture, natural resources week
More than 80 programs and annual association meetings occurred on campus last week during the 95th annual Agriculture and Natural Resources, or ANR, Week. MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources hosted the event, which ran March 5 through Saturday.
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Lansing mayor gets key endorsement
Lansing mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero received an endorsement from Michigan AFL-CIO last week, The Associated Press reported. The AFL-CIO represents more than 600,000 active and retired Michigan union members, including United Auto Workers.
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MSU programmers develop land mine avoidance game
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.
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(SCENE) Metrospace hosts art exhibit
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.
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Community music school holds all-school recital
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.
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RHA elects new president of 41st session
After an eight and a half hour meeting, assembly members of the MSU Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected current Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak as president of RHA’s 41st session.
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IBM to host career fair for college grads
Spartan engineers will be given the opportunity Monday to pursue up to 60 new jobs with IBM — jobs they wouldn’t have to leave the city of East Lansing to get. Recruiters from IBM’s Global Delivery Center, which is located on the second floor of the MSU Federal Credit Union at 600 E. Crescent Road, for application services will be on campus for a meet-and-greet with both MSU and non-MSU graduates next week.
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MSU to change vet surgery practices
MSU no longer will use live animals to teach veterinary students surgical techniques, a spokesperson for the College of Veterinary Medicine said Thursday. Linda Chadderdon, spokeswoman for the college, said the university will switch from live animals to alternative methods of animal surgery education, such as animal cadavers, beginning in the fall.
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House to consider longer term limits
State Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, introduced a plan Wednesday to extend lawmaker term limits, according to a statement.
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Group to address transportation
Major transportation issues will be addressed in October as three Michigan universities — MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University — plan to meet in Dearborn for a three-day conference called Transforming Transportation: Economies and Communities, a new transportation research consortium put on by the University Research Corridor, or URC.
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MSU to host many agriculture events
The 95th annual Agriculture and Natural Resources Week will take place March 5-13 on campus.
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House subcommittee meets with students
Members of the Michigan House of Representatives Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee held a meeting with college students at Kellogg Center and allowed the students to testify about budget concerns facing colleges and universities, Wednesday.
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MSUFCU grant helps students of all ages
A new grant from the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, will help the MSU Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement send 95 more student volunteers into the Greater Lansing community this semester and in the fall by providing something often taken for granted — transportation.
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RHA to hold election for association's leader
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, will will hold its presidential elections at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in Van Hoosen Hall. The three candidates include RHA President Emma Perot, Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak and McDonel Hall representative Ryan Starski.
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MSU ranked as 17th best place to work in survey
MSU is ranked among the top 40 U.S. academic institutions in an annual survey of the best places to work in academia for the fourth year in a row. According to The Scientist magazine’s survey, MSU fell from No. 4 in 2008 to No. 17 in 2009.