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MSU to host upcoming Career Circus

For MSU students looking for an opportunity to impress employers, the Career Circus career fair might provide the perfect opportunity. The career fair — which will be held at 1 p.m. Friday on the fourth floor of Spartan Stadium’s Spartan Club — will offer a more casual and creative atmosphere than the typical career fair, said Kevin Yombor, an international relations senior.

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College of Human Medicine HQ earns ‘green’ certification

The College of Human Medicine’s Secchia Center has been honored for its efforts to “go green” in Grand Rapids. Last week, the Secchia Center — the college’s headquarters in Grand Rapids — was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, gold certification by the U.S.

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MSU receives grant to continue plant study

Using a $4.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a research team in MSU’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology wants to continue its research on plant evolution and metabolism using cultivated and wild tomato species.

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Archaeology students explore old campus life

At an MSU archaeology field school last summer, Chris Stawski helped lead a team of archaeology students to uncover evidence that MSU students of 100 years ago are very similar to ones today — finding a trash pit on campus dating from the late 1800s that contained everything from a pocketknife to discarded inkwells to clay smoking pipes.