ASMSU Student Assembly unanimously voted Thursday to allocate $225,000 from its risk management fund to place a bid to late-night host Conan O’Brien. Assembly members also unanimously voted to reduce a proposed $1.75 tax increase to $1.25.
Jessica Langnas remembers the lollipop tree, dressing up and the fish named Cookie — part of the Purim celebration at her synagogue in Southfield. This year, she will experience it again, thanks to the Hillel Jewish Student Center.
Melissa Erdman, an animal science junior in the MSU Production Medicine Scholars Program, was named the 2010 senior division winner of the Michigan Dairy Ambassador Scholarship and Leadership Program.
Kendell Pawelec, a materials science and engineering senior, was named a 2010 U.S. Gates Scholar and received a full-ride to Cambridge University in England.Pawelec is one of 29 students nationwide selected to receive the scholarship from about 800 applicants.
A pair of MSU sociology professors — Stan Kaplowitz and Harry Perlstadt — worked with Yale professor Lori Post to develop a simplified method of detecting lead poisoning in children. The research appeared in the March-April issue of Public Health Reports.
Lauren Myers brought a little piece of Spain to Kresge Art Center on Wednesday, meshing her taste and artistic technique with that of renowned surrealism artist Salvador Dali. Myers, an apparel and textile design senior, exhibited a Dali-inspired gown and two other artistic design pieces in the 2010 Apparel and Textile Design Exhibition, along with 16 other undergraduate students, said Theresa Winge, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History.
The Michigan Political Leadership Program, or MPLP, will introduce its 24 newest inductees at fundraising events Thursday and Friday in Grand Rapids and Livonia. The 18-year-old political training program was founded by MSU.
A new social media research partnership to improve Michigan’s economy, community engagement and future will be announced by MSU and INgage Networks at 2:30 p.m.
The Big Ten Counseling Centers Conference kicked off Wednesday at Kellogg Center. The conference brings together staff and students who work at counseling centers at schools in the 11 Big Ten universities and other institutions for collaboration sessions.
Preschoolers had the chance on Wednesday to ask Spartan athletes the important questions: How often do you practice?What do you eat? And, most importantly, what is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Women’s basketball player Mandy Piechowski and track and field athletes Max Goldak and Elizabeth Rohl spoke to about 70 preschoolers at Spartan Childhood Development Center, 1730 Crescent Road, about their sports and answered questions.
The 15th annual Quiet Water Symposium is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 6 at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education. The symposium, which is part of Agriculture and Natural Resources Week at MSU, offers participants the chance to learn about human-powered outdoor recreation equipment and activities
Michigan schools will be first in the nation to use new virtual gardening tools at MSU’s Indoor 4-H Children’s Garden on Friday. MSU Extension, or MSUE, partnered with the Michigan Department of Education to give 20 Michigan school administrators the opportunity to learn how to plant a school garden and then harvest the produce for use in the cafeteria.
Nominations and applications for the 2010 Homecoming Court now are being accepted. Departments, units and organizations at MSU are encouraged to make nominations, but MSU faculty, staff and students are allowed to nominate as well.
MSU officials hope to have all residence halls switched to electronic access by January 2012. Currently, four residence halls — Emmons, Snyder, Phillips and Holden halls — have electronic access to the resident living wings,
A bacteria found in many healthy women that can be deadly when passed onto babies could be transferred between cows and humans, according to a study conducted by MSU researchers. Group B streptococcus, or GBS, is a bacterium carried by up to 40 percent of women.
A passion for writing that began in a college English class has taken Diane Glancy, a novelist, poet and most recently filmmaker, on a decades long journey that brought her to MSU this week. “Language is the foundation upon which I stand,” said Glancy, who visited WRA 125, The American Ethnic and Racial Experience, on Tuesday. She also spoke at a public event at the Main Library about her ongoing filmmaking project.
Olin Health Center and a student group are working to emphasize to MSU students that beauty comes in various forms. MSU students will be given a chance throughout the week to address body image issues by participating in Olin Health Center’s activities for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, said Ronda Bokram, a dietician at Olin Health Center.
Tiaras and cowboy boots seem an unlikely combination for most people, but not for animal science freshman Starr Ries, who competed in the Miss MSU Rodeo Queen Competition for the first time this past weekend. The MSU Rodeo Club hosted the Spartan Stamapede Rodeo, which started Thursday evening with completing a horsemanship pattern and concluded Saturday evening with the crowning of the queen.
When Jeffrey Riedinger, dean of MSU’s International Studies and Programs and director of MSU’s Center for Advanced Study of International Development, will travel to India as part of the Institute of International Education, or IIE, U.S. University Presidents’ Delegation to India. He will accompany U.S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter and officials from 12 other universities.
MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine celebrated the opening Monday of a new campus at Macomb Community College’s University Center in Clinton Township, said Kari Hortos, associate dean at the site. The new facility opened to about 50 students at the start of the spring semester, Hortos said.