Campus could get a little darker at 8:30 p.m Saturday as students are asked to shut down any unnecessary power for one hour. The event is part of Earth Hour 2010, which aims to increase awareness of climate change.
MSU students could be among participants at the Our Higher Education Rally noon to 2 p.m. on Thursday at the Capitol as part of a statewide effort organized by the Student Association of Michigan, or SAM.
MSU will be hosting the Michigan Clean Energy Forum at 2 p.m. April 10. The theme “Jobs and the Clean Energy Race” will include panelists from various job sectors including several faculty members from MSU.
About 30 students gathered Wednesday at the Hillel Student Jewish Center, 360 Charles St., for an Ice Cream Seder night to get into the holiday mood for the upcoming Passover Seder on Monday.
MSU’s Debate Team was crowned national champions Tuesday after participating in the five-day National Debate Tournament.
Philosophy senior Brittany Collins held perfectly still as needles were inserted into her ears and wrists Tuesday evening, while other students watched in amazement. Collins was one of several students who volunteered to try the treatment when East Lansing acupuncturist Shalena Havens visited the MSU Chinese Club Tuesday at Wells Hall. The presentation was one of several activities used to teach members of the club parts of Chinese culture and prepare them for study abroad in China.
A grant awarded to the MSU Extension will allow researchers to look into the feasibility of planting crops that could be used for biofuels on nontraditional croplands such as Michigan roadways, vacant lots and state-owned pieces of land. Provided by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth, or DELEG, the $24,950 grant was announced Friday.
It might have come as a bit of a disappointment that Felix Yeboah has never seen a tiger. Yeboah, a natural resource management graduate student, is one of MSU’s international students from Ghana, a small country in Western Africa. He spoke Tuesday at Holt High School’s fourth annual World Language Week. The weeklong event began Monday and will continue through Friday.
The fifth annual Women’s Health Fair will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. The event will be held on the first floor of Union.
Poet, author and political activist Suheir Hammad will perform for the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry at 9 p.m.
The Pre-Student Osteopathic Medical Association will hold a suture clinic at 7 p.m. April 20 in Room A149 of the Plant and Soil Sciences Building. Doctors and medical students will be on hand to teach attendees suturing techniques on pigs’ feet.
MSU’s American Cancer Society Relay For Life will be hosted at 5 p.m. April 16 at the Ralph Young Field track. The event is held each year in honor of cancer survivors and their fight against the disease.
Patrons of Pizza House, 4790 S. Hagadorn Road, have the opportunity to win a $50 gift card to the restaurant. Customers can enter to win by submitting photos of themselves and a Pizza House delivery box in various locations.
Through a series of changes up for approval Tuesday by members of MSU’s Academic Council, the School of Journalism is slated to overhaul its curriculum to better align with the changing nature of the journalism industry.
Seeing isn’t believing — at least not for a scientist. After almost two years of peer review, checking and rechecking facts and looking at all possible alternatives, an internationally collaborative team of 584 physicists announced Friday the proven existence of antimatter.
The Celebrate Abilities Recital will be hosted by the MSU Music Therapy Program and the University Activities Board, or UAB, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Union Main Lounge. This is the recital’s 12th year.
The MSU Outdoors Club is hosting a flavor-tripping party from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday at Reno’s East Side Sports Bar, 1310 Abbot Road. The funds will be used to help the Outdoors Club start scholarships as well as buy new equipment.
Four nationally recruited scientists are expected to join a Parkinson’s disease research team at MSU’s College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids by the end of this summer.
When ASMSU’s Academic Assembly wraps up its year Tuesday night, the legacy of the 18th session will be one of advocacy and change in governance committees, officials said.
A recent MSU study looked at the relationship between local farmers and about seven school districts that buy produce from them as part of farm-to-school programs. The MSU team’s research, which appeared in the March issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, showed students preferred the local produce.