Only $33 million would remain in the “rainy day” fund under a bill passed by the state Senate to patch up budget holes. The legislation passed 37-0 and was sent to the House last June 5.
Former MSU President Jonathan Snyder is the reason Donald Straney came to MSU.“He cast a long shadow on the family,” said Straney, a zoology professor and assistant to the provost for faculty development.
After a difficult budget year and the threatened closure of a school, four East Lansing school-board hopefuls look to fill the board’s two vacant seats.William Donohue, Daphne O’Regan, Randy Bell and Brett Gillespie all look forward to possibly joining the board when the district needs them most.All of the candidates have children who attend schools in the district, except for Gillespie, who has brothers in the district.“I want to ask questions and increase communication,” said Gillespie, a recent East Lansing High School graduate.
The search to predict heart attacks could stop at MSU.The computed tomography scanner in the Department of Radiology at the MSU Clinical Center has been running since January to help diagnose diseases before symptoms even occur.MSU is doing three main types of screening - heart, colon and lungs.Scanner section chief Kelly Ludema said the machine itself is fairly common, but it’s the research at MSU that makes it unique.“Part of our research is the prospective studies on patients who are asymptomatic and see how well machines like these do prevent deaths and prevent heart attacks.”The scanners usually cost about $1 million, Ludema said.
MSU was named the leader of a regional lab developed for the detection and diagnosing of plant pests and diseases Thursday.
A proposed constitutional amendment to dedicate tobacco settlement money to health care puts the future of the Michigan Merit Award Scholarship program in jeopardy. The Citizens for a Healthy Michigan Coalition introduced the Healthy Michigan Amendment in March. The proposed amendment would dedicate 90 percent of funds from the nationwide tobacco lawsuit settlement of 1998 to health care.
MSU’s WDBM (88.9 FM) may have a problem it can’t fix.The online radio station, The Fix.org, is offline pending a proposed regulation to charge fees for playing music online.Librarian of Congress James H.
An MSU professor was named a 2001 Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News last week.Darlene Clark Hine, the John A.
South campus is experiencing fewer trains traveling after the chaos in Potterville on Tuesday.The derailment of a Grand Trunk train in Potterville just after midnight Monday had the tracks crossing Harrison Road quiet because of cancellations on the rails.Amtrak canceled two trains for Tuesday and Wednesday traveling between Chicago and Toronto because of work on the tracks, spokesman Howard Riefs said.The derailment has not affected operation of CSX Corp.
Police will be watching Michigan residents to ensure they are wearing their seat belts this holiday weekend.“If you don’t want a ticket, wear your seat belts,” MSU police Sgt.
MSU’s National Food Safety and Toxicology Center is leading state agencies in implementing the nation’s first Web site for reporting food poisoning.The site will allow people to go online, answer a 15-minute questionnaire about foods they’ve consumed in the last 48 hours and view postings from other citizens.Veterinary epidemiology Professor Paul Bartlett is heading the project.
Ten MSU students were each awarded fellowships from the National Science Foundation of $21,500 for three years of graduate studies plus $10,500 for their tuition in March.These fellowships mean different things to each student who won.“It means I don’t have to waitress and TA,” said zoology graduate student and fellowship recipient Meghan Duffy.
Karen Pawloski said she never dreamed enrolling at MSU would bring her to Cuba.“I wanted to go on a study abroad,” the packaging senior said.
The Red Cedar River ran green Friday as an MSU environmental group continued its study to understand pollution flow in the campus watershed.MSU-WATER, MSU-Watershed Action Through Education and Research, a watershed management initiative comprised of faculty, staff and students from 15 departments across campus, dyed a segment of the Red Cedar green.The research group was conducting a test to monitor how contamination moves through the river.Tom Voice, a civil and environmental engineering professor, said the project hopes to build a mathematical model of the river to find behavior patterns.“As long as you understand the physics of the river, you can predict how a given pollutant will behave when it enters the river,” Voice said.
It’s a good thing it didn’t rain Friday. “I go nice and slow when it rains,” Jeannie Striedl said.
A proposed gas pipeline to be installed along Interstate 96 in south Lansing has residents and public officials worried about the possibility of the gas leaking into the local groundwater.About 25 people spoke to the Lansing City Council at its Monday meeting about the pipeline, including a large majority of residents and two representatives from the Lansing Board of Water and Light who were opposed to the project.Wolverine Pipe Line Co., 2691 Lake Lansing Road, wants to replace a 65-year-old, 8-inch diameter pipeline with a 12-inch pipeline that would run for about 26 miles along I-96, but residents near the highway are worried about gas contaminating the area’s water supply.Jim Roth, the manager of Lansing’s Planning and Neighborhood Development Department, said the company was originally looking at two different options after the Michigan Public Service Commission denied permission to build the new pipeline in Meridian Township, citing safety concerns.The first plan would have the pipeline run along I-96, but would veer off in a few locations; the second plan would have it run nearly all of the pipeline’s length along the highway.When the company finalized its application to the Michigan Public Service Commission, they chose the plan that stayed along I-96, Roth said.The pipeline would be 4-feet deep for most of its length, Roth said.“I’ve testified in front of the Michigan Public Service Commission,” he said.
Education senior Valerie Deininger’s black Saturn will not be in her driveway anymore. The car was stolen from her home around 4 a.m.
Lansing - Tommy Bell ran with excitement from the petting zoo to the display that held Potter Park Zoo’s newest arrival. “I’ve seen a baby bear cub, I’ve seen a baby bear cub, it’s so cute, it’s so cute,” the 8-year-old Haslett resident said. The zoo, 1301 S.
Dwayne Sortor, a history senior and parent, won’t leave his child with just anyone.“You’re trusting your children to someone,” he said.
“This is a new facility which is supposed to be dedicated to research - Research on materials, pavements, and structures.” said Rigoberto Burgueño, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the new Civil Infrastructure Laboratory.