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Museum approved to break ground

The MSU Board of Trustees concluded 2009 by voting to approve several multimillion dollar construction projects, including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, at its Dec. 4 meeting.

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Green economy may help Mich.

New opportunities to combat environmental issues, such as global warming, could give Michigan a chance to emerge as a leader in the reduction of greenhouse gases and tackle the state’s high unemployment rate.

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DeVos to be given honorary degree

MSU will present Grand Rapids businessman and philanthropist Richard DeVos Sr., co-founder of Amway, with an honorary doctorate of humanities at the Saturday graduation commencement ceremony.

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Print group elects Kresge director

Susan Bandes, director of the Kresge Art Museum, was elected Nov. 6 to the Print Council of America, an organization of more than 200 print specialists in the U.S. and Canada ranging from curators to university professors.

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MSU professors study different uses of social networking sites

Signing into Facebook during class normally is looked down upon by MSU faculty, but some MSU professors are taking a different approach through research on social networking sites. Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media is part of a team using about $500,000 from a National Science Foundation grant to study how people use social networking sites such as Facebook. “The story of students using Facebook in class and not paying attention … (is) one small part of it,” Ellison said.