The MSU Board of Trustees will pack their bags, hop into their cars and get down to business today - it's retreat time. MSU President Lou Anna K.
East Lansing residents will have a chance to address East Lansing City Council members about the Avondale Square Neighborhood Development, also known as the Virginia Avenue project, at Tuesday night's work session. The session will be held at 7 p.m.
Break out the pretzels and partisanship - it's round two of the Democratic presidential candidate debates. The Democratic National Committee will hold the first of six planned, DNC-sanctioned debates between the party's presidential hopefuls live from 7-9 p.m.
The Summer Food Program for Children provides free breakfasts and lunches for children ages 18 and under.
Daniel Ortega-Pacheco heard a bundle of stories about international students' struggles as an MSU International Students Association board member last year. Ortega-Pacheco, an agricultural economics graduate student from Ecuador, said Americans don't often understand the difficulties international students face. "What people don't see is these international students are running short on money, just like any other college students, they're homesick and they're miles and miles away from their families," he said. A series of meetings between international students and local businesses look to strengthen the connection between the business community and MSU international students. Led by the MSU Office for International Students & Scholars Director Peter Briggs, the meetings are part of the OISS effort to ease the struggles of international students coming to a new country, school and home. "We want to make sure our international students feel welcome here and that we improve some of the entry pathways for these students into more aspects of the community," Briggs said. International students contributed more than $90 million to Lansing's economy in 2006, according to the Institute of International Education. Last week's meeting was a brainstorming session between international students and CEOs of six local companies, he said.
Being on the road doesn't always mean sitting in a car. Bicycling provides riders with transportation and health benefits. It is a major cardiovascular exercises because it uses many muscle groups, said Jim Pivarnik, a professor of kinesiology and epidemiology.
East Lansing may soon know how green its residents are - energy-wise, that is. In an effort to measure environmental attitudes, Richard Bernsten, an MSU professor from the Department of Agricultural Economics, and his students surveyed 360 East Lansing residents on topics ranging from energy-saving appliances to recycling. The students now are compiling the data and Bernsten plans to turn over the findings to the city by September. "If you want to change behavior, you have to know where people are," Bernsten said.
Marcus Hollmann has been around cows his entire life. Growing up on a dairy farm in Germany, Hollmann, 31, said he has been working with animals since he could walk - from taking care of them to taking them to cattle shows. Though he originally thought he might want to do something with electronics, Hollmann, a doctoral student in animal sciences, decided what he liked doing was working on the farm.
Some students get financial help from parents or work part-time jobs to pay for college. Others sell farm animals.
Hunched over a laptop, Eric Wood typed commands, hoping to bring a toy Lego car to life. Suddenly, the car was moving in a straight line. "It's following this command button here," he said. Wood, who teaches at Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Fla., was among the 100 educators who traveled to MSU's College of Engineering Monday as part of the Summer Magnet and Related Training Institute.
Twenty years ago, Gary Reid was stating his arguments to MSU trustees about why WDBM, or Impact(89-FM), radio should exist. Flash forward to 2007.
A background check system created by MSU researchers, engineers and state agencies is being used as a model for the proposed Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 in the U.S.
Sopping wet, Les Bentley emerged from the yellow decontamination tent cold and disoriented. He was greeted by two other victims who had experienced the same warm-watered scrub down, shivering in their bathing suits.
A three-legged man playing soccer is on display at Kresge Art Museum as a part of a nontraditional exhibit of circus sideshow banners. The collection of 12 canvas banners depicts exotic attractions ranging from a man riding a bicycle upside down through the air, to an underweight man playing tennis. There was some concern with how the exhibit would be received, said Cari Wolfe, assistant education curator. "Initially, there was some apprehension to being sensitive to certain issues - the armless and legless boy, the woman who is very large, that sort of thing," Wolfe said.
"The Pirates of East Lansing Family Aquatic Center" will be held from noon-3 p.m. today at The East Lansing Family Aquatic Center, 6400 Abbott Road.
The Mid-America Cooperative Council and MSU Product Center are hosting a two-day forum for Michigan cooperative board and management staff members. The 2007 Cooperative Education Forum for Directors and Senior Management will take place Aug.
The MSU Bug House buzzed Wednesday, and it wasn't just the bees. Kids shuffled from cage to cage, eyes glued on the critters inside.
It wasn't until he went to college at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that Vincent Young discovered his interest in research. And it wasn't until he came to MSU that he realized his interest crossed into departments many medical doctors wouldn't dream of studying. Young, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases at the College of Human Medicine and the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, is working on microbial ecology research, studying bacteria communities. However, Young is trained as a medical doctor, and the other researchers often work with bacteria in the soil, not in the human body. "We had to do a lot of convincing of the National Institute of Health that a person who is normally working in soil can contribute to medical fields," Young said about the struggle acquiring the grant he recently received from the institute. For Young, the idea of being a medical doctor originated growing up in Buffalo, NY. "When I was little, I was always thinking, 'You know, it would be kind of fun to be a doctor because you're going to help people,' and research wasn't anything I was exposed to when I was little," he said. So the idea to be both a doctor and a researcher came when he discovered the MD/doctorate programs that exist, which train students as both doctors and scientists, he said. "It's the idea that I learned both about the disease - and in medical school you have to learn a bit about the basic science of the disease - but I realized ? how did people find all this so we can try to design new therapies or have a new understanding of disease?" Young said, adding that he did an MD/doctorate program at Stanford University. For Young, the best part of the job is the social aspect. "If you just look at the type of research I do where I'm collaborating with people in crop and soil sciences and microbiology - for me, some of the best things about coming to work is when I get together with my colleagues and we get to talk about the science," he said. Basics of Research: For most of Young's career, he has been focusing his studies on disease-causing bacteria located in the human gastrointestinal tract.
The 28th annual Ag Expo will feature a Project GREEEN exhibit about the benefits of native plants. Running July 17-19 at the northwest corner of Farm Lane and Mt.
Farmers interested in improving Michigan's soybean crop and can enter the 2007 Michigan Soybean Yield Contest. Contestants will provide researchers with data on planting, harvests, and pest and crop management to help increase yields and profitability.