A report released by Massachusetts-based policy think tank MassINC found students and their families often do not make the best financial investments in higher education because of a lack of readily available information.
With a gift of $150,000, MSU has its first sponsor for a relatively new program geared toward giving students real-life experience in the field of engineering. Consumers Energy and the Consumers Energy Foundation donated the money as the inaugural gift for the Engineering Theme Partnership Program, or ETPP. The program lies within the less than two-year-old Residential Experience and Cornerstone Engineering program, or RECE, which acts as a first-year experience for freshmen majoring in engineering.
The Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, or MAES, has renamed its Escanaba, Mich., facility, originally known as the Upper Peninsula Tree Improvement Center, or UPTIC, to the Michigan State University Forest Biomass Innovation Center.
Tuesday’s snowstorm gave MSU Landscape Services an opportunity to clear roads without clearing out the bank. Employees cleaned a majority of campus sidewalks and roads by about 8 a.m. Wednesday, but a diluted liquid salt pretreatment gave the department more time to bring in additional help, said Gerry Dobbs, MSU Landscape Services manager.
The Spring 2010 Colloquium Series is slated for 1:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in Room 302 of the International Center and will feature the presentation MSU’s Violence Against Women Research and Outreach Initiative: Impacting Policy and Practice Through Feminist Action Research.
MSU received $1,483,194 in U.S. Department of Agriculture research grants for animal health and production, according to USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA. MSU is among more than 30 universities to receive a share of the $24 million in funding.
Olin Health Center’s In Your Face Theater Troupe, a group of nine students, travel across campus performing skits to highlight different aspects of students’ sexual behavior. On Tuesday, the troupe brought its act to Holmes Hall and performed a series of skits for about 45 students.
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Main Library’s north conference room.
Anna Pegler-Gordon, an associate professor in MSU’s James Madison College was awarded the 2009 Theodore Saloutos book prize of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for her book.
A visit from a Department of Energy scientist William Brinkman on Thursday has been canceled because of weather concerns, MSU spokesman Tom Oswald said.
Former MSU basketball player and retired NBA veteran Eric Snow spoke Tuesday to a crowd of more than 30 people in Wells Hall while promoting his book, “Leading High Performers: The Ultimate Guide to Being a Fast, Fluid and Flexible Leader.” Snow graduated from MSU in 1995 and, most recently, played with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and served as an analyst on NBA TV.
Ruth Groenhout, a Calvin College professor of philosophy, is slated to present two speeches Thursday and Friday at MSU on technology and medical care issues.
In an attempt to reach out to potential doctoral students who are unable to hold full-time jobs while attending classes, MSU’s College of Education will offer a hybrid course option beginning this summer for the educational psychology and educational technology doctoral program.
Students checking their MSU e-mails should think twice before double-clicking certain messages in their inboxes. An e-mail scam is circulating in MSU e-mail accounts.
Although numbers are preliminary, MSU officials predict this year’s application pool could be the largest in the university’s history, reflecting a national trend among universities.
The Graduate Conference III will be held from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Union. The free event will focus on performances and panels on concentrations in the college of Arts and Letters.
MSU might benefit from President Barack Obama’s proposal to pump billions more dollars into scientific research organizations, university researchers and officials said.
MSU is No. 1 in Michigan and No. 4 in the U.S. for producing Peace Corps volunteers, according to the 2010 rankings released by the Peace Corps organization. Despite dropping one place since last year’s rankings, MSU maintained its place among the leaders in producing volunteers this year.
Before Laura Casey graduated from MSU in 1993, the James Madison College alumna and OnStar satellite radio services manager said she had a “major of the week” during her sophomore year. “I would pull out the big course book and every week I’d write out a new career and post it on the wall,” she said.