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Students rally to bring FRIB to crib
After leaving their WRA class Thursday afternoon, freshmen Nick Lebel and Eric Sneller decided to smash nuclei and create some rare isotopes.
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Unpredictable economy leads to increased enrollment in graduate programs
Increased applications to MSU’s graduate and MBA programs follow a national trend that shows students tend to seek shelter in an unpredictable economy.
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MSU grad to receive environmental award
A former Spartan is still going green more than 20 years after he graduated from MSU. Dan Dinelli, a third-generation golf course superintendent, has been selected to receive the 2009 President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
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Academic minor requirements could change pending proposals
Two proposals awaiting final approval could affect how much time students spend on a minor program at MSU. Faculty Council approved a proposal during its meeting Tuesday clarifying the type of credit and how much course work must be specific to the minor program. The council also decided students can only earn a minor in a field other than their major.
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Housing options to be on display at fair
MSU’s Housing Fair will showcase on- and off-campus housing available to students for the 2009-10 school year.
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Lecture series features radiology chairman
Radiology Department Chairman James Potchen will give a presentation at 7 p.m. today at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
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Bone marrow drive to be held today
Students can help save lives from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in 191 Communication Arts and Sciences Building, where the MSU health communication program is sponsoring a bone marrow registration drive.
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NAISO hosts Columbus Day vigil at MSU
For many people, Columbus Day is a time to celebrate the discovery of America. For Native Americans, the day is a time to remember the lives that were lost after America was founded.
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Undergrads gain skills in research
As a freshman, Nicole Goldman discovered undergraduate research as a way to build on the material she learned in class.
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Survey: Drunken driving hits 8-year low for MSU students
The number of students who drive after drinking is at an almost eight-year low, according to a report released by Olin Health Center. In 2000, 61 percent of those surveyed said they didn’t drive after consuming any alcohol. That number has increased to 76 percent in the 2008 survey.
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Composer returns to hear work
Two musicians with MSU ties joined the Lansing Symphony Orchestra on Saturday to perform a saxophone concerto at Wharton Center. David Maslanka, who received his master’s and doctoral degrees for music theory and composition from MSU in 1970, originally wrote “Concerto for Alto Saxophone” for the saxophone and wind ensemble in 1999.
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Graduate School redefines specializations as fourth type of graduate certificate program
A change in the type of graduate certificate programs offered at MSU could mean more students earning certificates.
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Police, students work to curb campus crime in reported assault aftermath
More people were arrested for larcenies on MSU’s campus in 2007 than in the previous two years, but violent robberies stayed about the same, according to the MSU police 2007 annual crime report.
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Arab Awareness Week to end with comedy show, themed night
Mike Mosallam loves the challenge of making others laugh. “It’s much harder to make someone laugh than to make them cry,” said Mosallam, who lives in Dearborn.
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Event to raise awareness of cluster bombs, landmines
It was a sunny day in Lebanon in 1999 when Raed Mokaled and his wife took their two sons to the park to celebrate 5-year-old Ahmad’s birthday. While Ahmad was playing, an explosion tore through the air. Ahmad died hours later in the hospital. He is one of thousands of people, many of them children, killed or maimed by leftover cluster munitions.
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Author to address race, gender in election
Best-selling author Rebecca Walker will give a speech at 7 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center Auditorium entitled “What Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have to Teach Us about Race, Class and Gender in America.”
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University receives engineering grant
The MSU College of Engineering is set to receive a $75,000 from the Motorola Foundation to help support a program to expose middle- and high-school students and faculty to new engineering concepts.
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YAF files complaint against James Madison, MSU
MSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom filed a complaint against the university Oct. 1 for an reported campaign finance violation. The formal complaint was sent to the Secretary of State, and an e-mail was sent to Attorney General Mike Cox’s office.
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Impact nominated for radio award
MSU’s student radio station, WDBM (89-FM), the Impact, is being considered for the first-ever mtvU Woodie for Best Campus Radio Station.
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Grad school fair to be on campus
More than 150 schools that offer graduate programs will be at the Graduation & Professional School Recruitment Fair on campus next week.