Under a revision to a university policy, appointments to fixed-term employee positions made on or after March 1 can be ended before contractual expiration dates for budgetary reasons. The policy requires written notice be given to the employee 30 days before the date of termination.
This year will mark the 14th annual Pack Up, Pitch In, Help Out program at MSU as students prepare to leave for the summer. The program helps to promote environmental sustainability on campus by providing easy ways for students to recycle plastics, white paper, mixed paper, wood and carpet.
One week after he was elected Student Assembly Chairperson, Eric Branoff has resigned. Branoff gave up his seat at ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting Thursday night to accept a scholarship to study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.
Students looking to squeeze one last learning experience from MSU can attend this year’s concluding Brown Bag lecture at the MSU Museum Auditorium on Friday.
David Cooper, head of the sociology department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, will speak at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Ashley Morris, a 24-year-old MSU student pursuing a master’s degree in human resources and industrial relations and a second-year law student, was named the recipient of the 2010 Daniel Rosenthal Legislative Intern award.
MSU colleges have collaborated to establish the Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing Inclusion Through Research Award. Interested applicants must be able to demonstrate personal effort, which includes King’s passion of inclusion. The application is due by 5 p.m. Nov. 1.
For more than 10 weeks, hundreds of engineering students have worked on project designs they hope will wow judges from MSU and the engineering industry and earn them a decent grade.
More than 7,500 children in India will be vaccinated against measles thanks to a group of MSU students. After a study abroad experience at Shanti Ashram, a nongovernmental organization in Southern India dedicated to rural development, students created MSU Students Advancing International Development, or MSU SAID. They now have raised more than $15,000 for the community they worked last summer, said the group’s adviser, Dan Dutkiewicz.
Rick Foster, a W.K. Kellogg professor in food, society and sustainability at MSU, has been selected to direct the new Institute for Greening Michigan: Leveraging Natural and Human Assets for Prosperity.
A free concert will be performed by Michigan rock band Doop and the Inside Outlaws at 5 p.m. Friday at the rock on Farm Lane. The event is presented by MSU’s University Activities Board and Senior Class Council.
MSU’s Formula One Racing Team will unveil at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Engineering Building a race car they’ve spent the last year building from the ground up. About 20 MSU students from various majors are on the team.
The MSU Physical Plant hosted its first Construction Awareness Day on Tuesday to the rock on Farm Lane to raise awareness about summer construction programs on campus.
As the semester ends, ASMSU’s Academic and Student assemblies already are planning projects for the summer and fall semesters. Academic Assembly held its last official meeting Tuesday night and Student Assembly will finish Thursday.
On Monday, a panel discussion about the connection between the greek community and religion kicked off the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s Spring NPHC Week — an annual event meant to end the semester and bring attention to the organization. The National Pan-Hellenic Council, or NPHC, is an umbrella organization that includes nine traditionally black fraternities and sororities.
The MSU All-Girl competitive cheer club team finished first in the Big Ten and seventh in the nation at the 2010 Nationals competition in Daytona Beach, Fla. The program expanded this season and members attended various competitions nationwide.
Nearly 2,000 people crossed the threshold of Sparty’s Spring Party 2010 on Saturday at Demonstration Field to participate in giveaways and carnival-like fare. The annual event — now in its ninth year — was sponsored by MSU’s University Activities Board, or UAB, Student Alumni Foundation, or SAF, and ASMSU.
The candidate pool for the MSU Board of Trustees continues to grow after an MSU alumnus and local business owner announced his intention to seek one of two spots open during this year’s midterm elections.
MSU professor Wendy Powers was named director of the Institute for Enhancing Michigan’s First Green Industry: Agriculture and Agribusiness.
What has become an annunal event known as the Chai Party has become an unexpected tradition since it first began in 2006 by several roommates — all MSU students — who wanted to know if it was possible to create a party atmosphere without the drinking. More than 125 people attended this year’s event hosted throughout Friday night.