National Farm Safety and Health Week will be held Sept. 21-27 to educate farmers on safety regulations that could help workers avoid the dangers of the second most hazardous industry in the United States. MSU Extension received a four-year grant from the U.S.
An informational meeting on Hepatitis C will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital. The meeting, sponsored by the Ingham County Health Department, will discuss Hepatitis C, how it's transmitted, treatment options and prevention measures. Reservations are not required for the free meeting in the Clark Conference Room on the Sparrow's St.
After noticing a shortage in the number of tenured women professors, two women from the Department of Plant Biology decided to take action by forming a discussion group.Anna Monfils, an MSU alumna and instructor in the department, and Kathleen Kay, a plant biology graduate student - along with about 25 female plant biology students - met Friday with tenured women faculty members in a question-and-answer session.Monfils and Kay said they hope to start a discussion group that meets regularly to help women in plant biology with their career goals and Friday's discussion was the first."I was having concerns about women in science having role models," Monfils said.
A symposium on the "Speech-To-Speech" program will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Sept.
The Department of Chemistry will sponsor a lecture from California Institute of Technology professor Harry B.
After two years of handling multiple aspects of ASMSU's loan program from the business office, loan clerk Gary Reason left his position Friday afternoon to pursue an inventory specialist position at Value City Furniture."It is very sad," the 39-year old Reason said after his co-workers presented him with a cake to honor his last day at ASMSU.
The MSU Community Music School will launch the New Horizons Band program, which will give senior citizens an opportunity to develop new musical skills.
Members of the Student Greenhouse Project revised their proposal for a dome-shaped greenhouse and met with administrators in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources last week and the College of Natural Science Thursday to push the approval of a public greenhouse in the center of north campus. "It's a process of getting various stakeholders and administrators for broad support to get final approval," said Phillip Lamoureux, member of the Student Greenhouse Committee and main developer of the proposal.
"Frankenfest" will be from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight on the Union lawn as part of East Lansing and MSU's second annual "One Book, One Community" program. Every year the program coordinators choose a book for the whole community to read and then plan activities that relate to the book.
More than a year after a blaze brought their facility to the ground, the Mormons of the Lansing Michigan Stake are back at home. Members of the Mormon stake in East Lansing had been continuing their work in Lansing and Holt while the 24,500-square-foot building at 431 E.
MSU's Council of Graduate Students met Wednesday for its first meeting of the school year and discussed the budget and future events.COGS' budget was passed last April, but some members questioned a few of the expenses.
As part of the Michigan Writers Series, author Craig Holden will be reading tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the MSU Main Library in room W449.
The Nokomis Learning Center, a Native American cultural center, is having its fall festival from 2-7 p.m.
Investing more than $100 million in renovations and expansion to campus buildings is one of the topics the MSU Board of Trustees will vote on at its Friday meeting. The expansion and renovation proposals to Spartan Stadium, Snyder and Phillips halls and IM Sports-West, along with an overview of the 2002-03 university budget and the release of preliminary enrollment numbers for the class of 2007, will all be addressed at the meeting, which begins at 2 p.m.
A half-full Fairchild Theater shook Tuesday with the rhythms of songs that weren't always accepted in American culture. The concert, titled "Freedom Sings," highlighted first-amendment issues through music. "Freedom energizes the nation," said Ken Paulson, the evening's narrator and executive director of the First Amendment Center, which hosted the event.
MSU students will donate $250 in school supplies to Lansing elementary schoolchildren on Friday. Starting at 3 p.m.
Mahbuba Fidda studied law in the Soviet Union, practiced in Afghanistan and now hopes to continue her studies by working toward a master's degree at the MSU-Detroit College of Law.Fidda is one of six international students to enter the new master's program that began this year.The program brought students from Lebanon, Egypt, Canada, Mexico, China and Afghanistan.
The MSU Alumni Club of Minnesota kicked off a fund-raiser Tuesday, and asked members of the MSU community to submit recipes and photos of "The Spartan" statue to its Spartan-themed cookbook.The funds raised will be used to replace the ceramic statue."We're real excited about this book and this project," club President Laurie Dama said.
The horse show "Icelandics on Ice" will come to Munn Ice Arena on Thursday. The show, which is open to families, will feature professional riders and trainers performing with their horses on the ice.
Two unassuming cardboard boxes within the MSU Museum's archives will contain sealed pieces of Williams Hall history for the next 52 years. On April 27, the night before finals last year, more than 32 residents of West Circle Complex donated items for a time capsule, which was presented to the museum this week.