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Colleges require cough vaccination for students

Brendan Bouffard
January 23, 2007

It's not a pleasant sight. When infants are infected with pertussis, they can cough so much they make a whooping sound as they gasp for air. MSU officials want to keep students from contracting the illness commonly known as whooping cough by requiring immunizations for those training to work in health-care settings. The vaccination will be required for all students in the College of Human Medicine, the College of Osteopathic Medicine, the College of Nursing and students in the Medical Technology Program. "Health care professionals have a much higher likelihood of being exposed to infectious diseases," University Physician Beth Alexander said.

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Spectacular Sparty

He's got an oversized head and bulging muscles. He swaggers around in a dashing green Greek costume, dropping into one-handed pushups without a second thought and busting out wacky dance routines. Oh, and he wins national collegiate mascot championships. Sparty regained the title of the Universal Cheer Association's No.

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Peace Corps finds help from MSU

Cash Kruth
January 19, 2007

MSU was the ninth-largest producer of Peace Corps volunteers in 2006, as 71 alumni currently serve as volunteers. Since 1961 — when the Peace Corps was created — 2,057 MSU alumni have served as volunteers.

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From class to computer

Sarah Harbison
January 18, 2007

In Fennville, Mich., three teenagers are learning a language not many high schools offer — Mandarin Chinese. So far, Sam Robinson, Michael Martin and Nicholas VanTil can introduce themselves and their families, and describe their bedrooms in the dialect. Though their traditional high school is in a small city just south of Holland, they take an online course taught by professors from the MSU Confucius Institute through Michigan Virtual High School. The course is designed to be studied five days a week, with four days of self study.

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Restored roar

Cash Kruth
January 18, 2007

The Old English D took over Breslin Center on Wednesday afternoon, as Tigers fans young and old came to catch a glimpse of their favorite team. While the crowd anxiously waited to hear from the players, MSU President Lou Anna K.

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MSU geological sciences professor researches samples from planet Mars

Sarah Harbison
January 17, 2007

A self-described "'60s geek school kid," Michael Velbel has been interested in the space program since he was young. So much so, that in 1972, his father took him to the launch of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. At the time, Velbel — now an MSU geological sciences professor — was unaware of his future in geology.

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Boyogueno, MSU graduate student, dies after stroke

Joey Nowak
January 17, 2007

Fourth-year MSU doctoral student and Spanish department teaching assistant Simplice Boyogueno died Thursday after suffering from a stroke in December. Boyogueno, a native of Cameroon, was working on a dissertation about Africans and Afro-Caribbeans in Spain through literature and film.

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Resolutions create fitness craze

Colleen Maxwell
January 16, 2007

One day makes a difference. Ask the owner of any local fitness gym. After Jan. 1, New Year's resolutions begin, and memberships and attendance at gyms peak significantly. Randy Gregg, owner of Atlas Gym in East Lansing, said that in the first 10 days of the month, about 400 new members joined the facility.

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Former MSU prof dies; cared about university

Cash Kruth
January 16, 2007

Whether it was taking portraits of friends in his self-made basement studio, under the hood of an old 1929 Model A pickup truck or biking his way from Lansing to the Mackinac Bridge, Arnold Werner always seemed to have something on his plate. "He was a man with a million hobbies," Sarah Werner said of her father, whose work was on display at the East Lansing Public Library during June 2005.

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MSU horticulture group helps clean up New Orleans City Park

Joey Nowak
January 12, 2007

Sixteen months after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, a group of MSU horticulture students and faculty made what they thought was going to be a small difference. For some, it turned out to be much more. In August, MSU horticulture Professor Art Cameron returned to campus after a national horticulture meeting in New Orleans. His description of disaster and sadness inspired more than 40 students and faculty to make the trip to New Orleans in December to lend a hand to a city in need. The group spent about a week collecting and sorting the hundreds of pots that had scattered everywhere and cleaning up a greenhouse at New Orleans City Park that was under more than 10 feet of standing saltwater. Students also helped clear brush and wood, install benches and fixed greenhouse fans.

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MSU philosophy, accounting rank No. 1 in scholar index

Sarah Harbison
January 12, 2007

Faculty from MSU's accounting and philosophy departments produced more publications, were cited in more journals and received more funding and awards than the same departments at 353 other large research universities. Both programs were ranked first by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, which categorized large and small universities across the country based on data from 2005.

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Student competition searches for new heroes

Tara Thoel
January 11, 2007

On Monday, the nation honors Martin Luther King Jr., a man who dedicated his life to promoting civil rights. Now, students can help honor other heroes who share some of King's principles or those who furthered his dream. A group of three undergraduate students who can convincingly argue their case for who deserves similar recognition will win $1,500 for their presentation. The sixth annual Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case Competition will take place Feb.

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Students host Islamic heritage event

Tara Thoel
January 11, 2007

The Muslim Students' Association, or MSA, is hosting the second annual Eid party, which celebrates the Eid Al-Adhaa, or when the Prophet Abraham was tested by God. The holiday occurs on the 10th day of the last month of the lunar calendar and is a celebration of the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam and is required of all Muslims able to undertake the 10-day journey through the desert. "A lot of students at MSU were able to go this year because it was during winter break," said Tammam Alwan, president of MSA. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m.

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China's pollution levels severe

Cash Kruth
January 11, 2007

Six of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in China, one MSU researcher said. This is a problem for Jack Liu, who was born there and now studies the impact of economic growth on the environment. "Now, more and more people are realizing the importance of the environment to humans," said Liu, the director for MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability. Liu said economic development is important, but comes at the expense of the environment.

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MSU professor develops device to detect pathogens

Sarah Harbison
January 10, 2007

Syed Hashsham was raised in Sidhartha Nagar, a village in India. There, he said, water quality is a huge problem. Now, to "make an impact," he's designing a device that detects waterborne pathogens. "Research costs a lot," the civil and environmental engineering associate professor said.

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MSU scientists find black hole

Colleen Maxwell
January 9, 2007

A team of astronomers, including two MSU professors, discovered a black hole in an unlikely location. Stephen Zepf, a physics and astronomy professor at MSU, said the team's discovery of a black hole within a globular cluster, which is a dense collection of stars found in nearly all galaxies, is the first one of its kind. "The idea of black holes grows directly from Einstein's theory of general relativity," Zepf said in an e-mail.

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MSU professor, experts remove tumor from lion

Brendan Bouffard
January 9, 2007

Teach classes, hold office hours, perform emergency surgery on a rare African lion. For MSU veterinary professor Bryden Stanley, not every day can be considered typical. Amboseli, a 17-year-old lion living in Lansing's Potter Park Zoo, was anesthetized on Dec.