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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
MSU’s student radio station, WDBM (89-FM), the Impact, is being considered for the first-ever mtvU Woodie for Best Campus Radio Station.
More than 150 schools that offer graduate programs will be at the Graduation & Professional School Recruitment Fair on campus next week.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly Finance Committee unanimously passed a previously controversial bill — giving $2,000 more than requested to fund a documentary and concert on campus.
YouVote and the University Activities Board, or UAB, gave students one final chance to register to vote Monday at the rock on Farm Lane. For Michigan residents who wanted to vote in the Nov. 4 election, Monday was the last opportunity. YouVote is a nonpartisan organization on campus.
While the Michigan Department of Community Health targeted iceberg lettuce from Aunt Mid’s Produce Co. as the cause of last month’s statewide E. coli outbreak, the company has yet to confirm any responsibility. Dominic Riggio, the president of Aunt Mid’s, said the Detroit-based food distributor has fully cooperated with the health department and Michigan Department of Agriculture’s investigation.
There’s something in the wind that has led one MSU student to the state Capitol. International relations junior Cory Connolly’s ideas about wind energy applications for schools may be incorporated into state legislation on renewable energy.
Though there has been a reported growth in the number of doctoral degrees conferred between 2006 and 2007 by U.S. graduate schools, the numbers at MSU show there hasn’t been such an increase in East Lansing. A survey released by the Council of Graduate Schools, or CGS, shows the number of doctorates given by U.S. graduate schools increased by 9 percent between 2006 and 2007 compared with an average annual growth of 2 percent during the past decade.
After 23 years, Joyce Banish hasn’t grown tired of watching people run in circles. The vice president of marketing at the MSU Federal Credit Union loves this year’s Dinosaur Dash 5K just as much as the very first one. Banish joined with thousands of others Sunday at the MSU Museum for the MSU Federal Credit Union Dinosaur Dash.
Check out these events going on around campus this weekend.
The “green” grades are in, and MSU earned a B. The Sustainable Endowments Institute released its 2009 College Sustainability Report Card, which rates the 300 universities with the largest endowments in the U.S on their sustainability efforts.
Anita Sandehl, a dining service manager, said the new trayless Yakeley dining hall couldn’t be better.
The MSU Federal Credit Union will have its 23rd annual 5K Dinosaur Dash on Sunday. The run/walk will begin at 10 a.m. in front of the MSU Museum.
Yuri Gandelsman’s decision to become a musician came long before he gained international fame.
By moving to the revitalized Michigan Avenue corridor, the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development hopes to increase its impact on the communities surrounding East Lansing.
Faculty faces in three of MSU’s colleges may no longer blend in with the crowd after a recent grant awarded to the university.