About 40 students met with university administrators Tuesday to voice concerns about potential budget cuts to programs aimed at multicultural students, including a potential 7 percent cut to the Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions, or OCAT.
Bills introduced in the Michigan House and Senate could open up thousands of teaching positions to recent graduates and young teachers.
For MSU’s College of Nursing, education is going virtual as the school explores Spartan Health Island, an online community that allow students to become avatars and simulate home visits with patients. Spartan Health Island, located within the online community of Second Life, has been implemented in the course Nursing 470, Community Health and Population Nursing.
The MSU Polish Club hosted an egg-ornamenting event Tuesday in celebration of this weekend’s Easter holiday. Pisanki, derived from the Polish word “pisac” meaning “to write,” is the term used to describe the technique of decorating an egg with any pattern or image desired.
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton will formally submit the 2010-11 fiscal year budget proposal Monday with various temporary cost-cutting and revenue-generating measures.
Sherrie Barr’s female dance students are not girls — they are young women. According to her, the subtle change in syntax can make a world of difference in terms of respect, something the dance industry historically has lacked in being defined as a woman’s field. Barr, MSU’s director of dance, spoke Monday as part of a panel for Wearing the Pants: Women in the Workplace, an event coordinated by student group Respecting Individuals on Neutral Grounds, or RING, and the MSU Women’s Council.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine LGBT Allies in Medicine will host several speakers this week as a part of LGBT Health Awareness Week: Closing the Gap.
Officials on the newly elected executive board for the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, want to create new programs and services for the more than 10,000 graduate and professional students at MSU, but said their plans are contingent on a tax referendum currently before students.
Workers at Burcham Hills Retirement Community rolled out the green carpet as residents and staff waited for their tee time Friday.
Beginning this fall, the MSU colleges of Education and Osteopathic Medicine will collaborate to better prepare health educators for teaching through a new online master’s degree program. The Education for Health Professions program was approved last week by MSU’s Academic Council.
Legislation moving to the state Senate would require Michigan emergency rooms to provide emergency contraception to individuals who are sexual assaulted. Four bills, originally part of a 15-bill initiative promoted by Planned Parenthood, passed the Michigan House last week and would extend access to contraception, said state Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing.
Some MSU students celebrated Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday, from turning off the lights for one hour at 8:30 p.m. to enjoying various forms of energy-free entertainment, such as relaxation lessons to poetry performances.
With more than 400 guests, a live instrumental band and a room teeming with almost every flavor of wine imaginable, the mood was especially festive for the 15th annual Wine Tasting Benefit for the MSU Museum.
MSU Model United Nations, or MSUMUN, hosted its 10th annual Model UN conference, called Conference X, for 429 high schoolers from 30 Midwest schools. The three-day event, sponsored by MSU James Madison College and ASMSU, was divided into 12 historical and currently operating organizations and councils. The students debated three issues per committee from the perspective of an assigned country, senator or other political leader in their organization. This year, the conference was held on MSU’s campus for the first time, and Wharton said its location almost doubled the number of delegates who attended. She said having the event on campus promotes MSU as a university and the students enjoy feeling a part of the MSU community. “If they’re into basketball, they’re watching that game with MSU students who are cheering right along with them, and you can tell how excited they are,” Wharton said. Another draw for the high school teams included the Michigan Senate committee, which was held for the first time. Monika Johnson, MSUMUN’s chair of the Senate committee and international relations junior, said the issues discussed in the committee hit home with the delegates. “One of the girls said that her mom had been out of a job for three years, so she was especially interested in the economic development topic,” Johnson said.
A 44-year-old man suspected of robbing an East Lansing bank last week was arraigned Friday on a charge of armed robbery at the 54-B District Court.
About 40 students performed a play in celebration of Nawriz, a Persian word meaning “new day.” It refers to Central Asia’s New Year, officially celebrated on the first day of spring. The play incorporated various musical performances as well as traditional Turkish, Kazakhstani and Iraqi dances Saturday at Wharton Center.
State News managing editor and history junior Justin Harris was appointed incoming editor-in-chief Friday by The State News Board of Directors.
The MSU Health and Risk Communication Center will host a bone marrow registry from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday.
In the final meeting of ASMSU’s Student Assembly on Thursday night, assembly members of the outgoing 46th session unanimously — but unhappily — approved new language for a tax referendum to support its Readership Program. The new language requires the tax to be revisited again in 2011.
Three MSU scientists recently received more than $1.4 million by the United States Department of Agriculture, or the USDA. Grants were awarded under a USDA program called National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, to George Smith and Juan Steibel, both professors in animal science, and C. Titus Brown, an assistant professor in molecular genetics.