MSU students who hope to study abroad but want a taste of it before committing to an entire semester will have another option.A new week-long program in Nicaragua will be offered through the MSU Office of Study Abroad starting in the spring.
When MSU forestry Professors Donald Dickmann and Larry Leefers began teaching a class about Michigan's forests seven years ago, they realized there weren't any textbooks available to paint a complete picture of forestry in Michigan."When we started teaching the course, one thing we recognized early on was there was no book written that dealt with forest ecology specifically in Michigan," Leefers said.
Bills regarding college mergers and an explicit T-shirt were presented during Tuesday's ASMSU meeting.Officials from MSU's undergraduate student government plan to announce concerns about lack of student involvement in a decision to downsize the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.ASMSU officials will follow the lead of the college's own student government, the Student Senate, which recently passed a bill to show its opposition to the merger.The departments are set to combine because of budget difficulties.The bill said ASMSU would issue a statement to college officials, Provost Lou Anna Simon and MSU President M.
MSU, ranked No. 1 in the country for supply chain management, and China, the largest emerging market in the world, will converge in discussion at the first annual Broad China Supply Chain Forum on Friday. The forum "Supply Chain: China's New Growth Engine" will be held from 8 a.m.
Essayist and fantasy writer Jacqueline Carey will give a free reading of selections from her work at 7:30 p.m.
Fareeha Shuttari's father used to call the family to break fast by banging a spoon against a metal plate.
The MSU Senior Class Council will host its sixth annual Green and White Charity Bowl, a touch football tournament, at 8:30 a.m.
A day after the controversial consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire's Episcopal Church, members of the MSU community disagree on whether it should have been allowed and whether it violates Christian teachings.As dissenters protested outside the ceremony, the Rev.
MSU-DCL College of Law graduate Jeffrey Gray said he only wants a good job and to practice law in his hometown after he won the Charles King Award.The $500 award is given in recognition of the student with the highest grade point average for the each graduating class.Graduating MSU-DCL last spring with a 3.93 GPA, Gray now works as a law clerk intern with United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan with Judge Lawrence Zatkoff.Gray said he is happy to have achieved the award but feels he only studied hard."There aren't really a whole lot of memorable moments in law school to be honest," Gray said.
African studies will mesh with agricultural economics as a professor leads a brown-bag discussion on Thursday. Agricultural economics Professor David Tschirley will discuss "Lessons from a Decade of Cotton Sector Reform in SSA" at noon in room 201 of the International Center. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (517) 353-1700 or e-mail africa@msu.edu.
Employers from the science, environmental and mathematics fields will gather on campus for the Natural Science Career Fair from 5 to 9 p.m.
A new survey shows attorneys across the country recommend an undergraduate degree in liberal arts for aspiring lawyers. The legal staffing service The Affiliates conducted the survey, finding 37 percent of practicing attorneys picked liberal arts as the best major to prepare a student for legal work, followed by 31 percent who chose business studies for their undergraduate degrees.
Untying knots, stealing gold bricks from closed iron safes and unfolding hypercubes all are part of the fourth dimension. Although it sounds like a science-fiction concept, the fourth dimension is the topic of the most recent installment of the Lyman Briggs School Lecture Series. Michael Starbird, a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, will discuss the abstract domain at 7:30 p.m.
Student Life's Noontime Conversation Series continues Wednesday with a discussion about the war in Iraq. William Allen of MSU's Department of Political Science will lead a discussion entitled "The Consequences of the Iraq War: Too Little Too Fast." The conversation runs from 12:10 to 1 p.m.
Support for charter schools has fallen slightly since 1998, according to a report released Wednesday by MSU researchers.The report, based on a 965-person survey conducted by the MSU Education Policy Center, showed support has declined 8 percent in the last five years, from 63 percent in 1998 to 55 percent this year.
Students interested in employment with state or federal government agencies are invited to the Call to Serve Career Fair on Wednesday. The fair runs from 5 to 8 p.m.
As part of a new committee established to help MSU's governing unit hear concerns from the student body, a handful of student leaders met with MSU Trustee David Porteous on Friday at the Multicultural Center.The committee, which has no formal name, was organized by family community services senior Misty Staunton, who also serves as the at-large student liaison to the MSU Board of Trustees.Staunton said the group hopes to speak with one trustee every month to learn more about how the board operates and what university business was conducted at the board meeting."I don't want just student leaders to be able to talk to them," Staunton said, adding she hopes students will participate, regardless of their involvement with campus groups.Staunton said she encourages students who are involved in the committee to attend the monthly board meetings.
Amidst flashing multicolored lights and bumping hip-hop music, nearly 300 students gathered for the eighth annual Seoul Train dance on Saturday night at the Kellogg Center.
Eating large amounts of Snickers candy bars or Reeses Peanut Butter Cups this Halloween is OK, says one Olin Health Center student organization. Respecting and Understanding Body Image, or RUBI, a group that works to promote positive body image and increase eating disorder awareness, distributed fliers this week urging students not to worry about how much candy they eat this weekend. The flier stated "It's the fun that counts, not the calories - enjoy food and celebrate yourself." "You don't need to worry about calories and you don't need to worry about fat," said Erin Ruth, RUBI president and nutritional sciences senior.
ASMSU officials will address East Lansing officials with recommendations for changes to the city's party-noise ordinance at the next council meeting.Members from MSU's undergraduate student government passed a bill during a Student Assembly meeting Thursday night to present five clarifications and revisions to the policy.