The Graduate Employees Union will be holding an open house Friday for all graduate students to get to know the purpose of the union and to find out more about its current contract negotiations. The event will be held from 5 p.m.
Olin Health Center is doing its part to help women detect cervical cancer.Although many people may not know about it, the center has been using the ThinPrep Pap Test exclusively for about a year.The test, which is manufactured by Cytyc Corporation, has been found to be significantly more effective than the Pap smear.ThinPrep was implemented at Olin four years after it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
A startled smile crept across Larry Sierra’s face Tuesday as his family, friends and co-workers recognized him as an excellent supervisor. Members of the Bosses’ Day Committee started at 9:30 a.m.
Three distinguished men have been scheduled to speak at the fall commencement ceremonies which are to be held at Breslin Center. The speakers are Lee Bollinger, president of the University of Michigan; Clark Bunting, vice president and general manager for the Discovery Channel; and Roger Beachy, director of the Donal Danforth Plant Science Center in St.
The chief investigator in the Ted Bundy murder cases of the 1970s will speak in Okemos on Thursday. Robert D.
For the first time tonight, two mothers who experienced similar tragedies will come together to educate students and community members - hoping they won’t ever have to experience tragedies like their own.Cindy McCue’s son, parks and recreation junior Bradley McCue, died of alcohol poisoning after downing 24 shots on his 21st birthday in 1998.Shawn Newstead’s son, 24-year-old Brandon D’Annunzio, died Oct.
Calum Matheson and Austin Carson are roommates. They’re also the best two-person college debate team in the nation. This MSU Debate Team duo brought home top honors in a tournament hosted by the University of Kentucky earlier this month - the first time MSU’s top two-person team has won. The pair met when they were recruited by MSU.
Ideas to improve and change on-campus student events, communication and police discretion all surfaced during Monday’s meeting of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations.The Task Force was appointed following an independent investigation into the placement of an undercover officer into United Students Against Sweatshops, now called Students for Economic Justice, beginning Feb.
A prestigious Harvard professor will be on campus tonight to discuss the importance of evolution. Stephen Palumbi, a professor of biology, will be discussing the dramatic acceleration of evolution of pest and disease organisms and why it’s necessary for people to be alerted. The lecture, “The Social and Economic Impact of Rapid Evolution: Why Ignoring Evolution is Educational Malpractice,” is the second in a series coordinated by the Lyman Briggs School.
A new set of hands will be leading MSU’s effort to reach out to the state.Margaret Bethel was named director of MSU Extension, part of a national land grant institution program that attempts to apply research done on university campuses to the lives of citizens across that school’s state.
MSU will participate in the 18th Annual World Food Day today by showing a worldwide live teleconference and holding a panel discussion to address hunger and nutrition issues. “Any graduate or undergraduate student who has an interest in learning about what they could do to help fight hunger and end hunger would benefit from this event,” said Robert Glew, assistant director of the Center for Advanced Study of International Development.
Several hugs were shared with New York City rescue workers among thousands of U.S. paper flags that consumed the stands of Spartan Stadium on Saturday. Rescue workers from New York’s fire and police departments were honored guests at MSU’s Homecoming parade and football game this past weekend and were the recipients of more than $100,000 in donations. At the football game against Iowa, marketing junior Ted Edginton watched as the New York firefighters and police officers left their seats by the side of the field and went up into the stands to give students hugs. “Students reacted so positively to the visiting New York City rescue workers,” he said.
The role the media should and does play in a national crisis, how media coverage shapes views of history and other standpoints on the situation following the Sept.
Friday’s issue of The State News lay covered in melted ice cream as community members celebrated the fourth annual Super Bowl Sundae on Farm Lane and Wilson Road.MSU Dairy Store and Dairy Plant employees filled a sanitized pond liner at 2:05 p.m.
Despite expected lower state revenues, MSU is asking the state to take a closer look at next year’s funding for the university.The MSU Board of Trustees approved Friday MSU President M.
Helen Dalton was a 36-year-old mother of two.But instead of watching over her children, a “silent silhouette” memorial to her watches over students entering Mason Hall.Dalton, a Grand Rapids resident, was shot and killed by her boyfriend last year.
Tailgating and football are typical events that occur during fall weekends on campuses across the nation.
Today kicks off the first Michigan Safe Schools Week with speakers, presentations and a “Best In Show” poster and project judging contest at the Capitol Rotunda from 10 to 11 a.m.As facilitator of Michigan Safe Schools Initiative workshops in the School of Criminal Justice, Audrey Martini said the purpose of the week is to have schools reassess safety measures and precautions.“It is to raise awareness of creating a safe learning environment, not just physical but mentally as well,” she said.A bulletin was sent to all Michigan school districts requesting they participate in the week by holding a contest where students create posters and projects that emphasize keeping schools safe.
MSU’s Residence Halls Association has recently added two new officers to its executive board.At its general assembly meeting Wednesday, Amy Sa’id was elected external vice president and Renisha George was elected community service chairperson.An external vice president’s job is to work with other residence hall organizations outside RHA, such as hall governments and caucuses.
In an effort to spread awareness to the masses coming in for Homecoming weekend, members of ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, will pass out 60,000 purple ribbons in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.Last Thursday, Student Assembly passed a bill to allocate up to $1,000 from a Special Projects Account to support a rape awareness campaign.ASMSU’s Student and Academic assemblies last month passed a joint resolution to work to keep the campus safe and free of rape.Melanie Olmsted, College of Social Science representative for Student Assembly, created the bill and thought this would be a good way to show support.“The ASMSU community took a stand against rape and violence and this is an opportunity to put their words into action,” Olmsted said.Olmsted said the cost wouldn’t reach $1,000 and that her idea is separate from the other events occurring to support domestic violence awareness.