Minority career fair encourages finding connections
Minorities searching for career opportunities will soon have a chance to market their skills.The Minority Career Fair, sponsored annually by Career Services & Placement, will take place Jan.
Minorities searching for career opportunities will soon have a chance to market their skills.The Minority Career Fair, sponsored annually by Career Services & Placement, will take place Jan.
The theme for the 2001 Battle Against Cancer is something that organization founder Nick Kovacic hopes students will stop to think about.The theme, Its your life.
Shannon Sharp wanted to give The Eli Broad College of Business a boost. Her $20 donation contributed to the Senior Class Campaign, a year-long fund-raising contest between seniors at the University of Michigan and seniors at MSU.
Engineering arts junior Lawrence Thomas hardly ever uses the computer in his Spartan Village apartment.Although his computer is fully equipped with DVD-rom, a CD burner and performs the most practical word-processing functions, Thomas often finds himself using one of the more than 60 computer microlabs on campus.Theyre easy to get to, Thomas said.
Dick Ammons has never seen such a positive approach to music and spirituality as he sees in Lucille Olson. Ammons has been the minister at the Unity of Greater Lansing church, 240 Marshall St.
Sherie Rappoport said her recent trip to Israel was the best experience she has ever had.The education freshman traveled with a group of 28 MSU students from the Hillel Jewish Student Center on the Birthright Israel Trip, a program that takes Jewish college students who have never been to Israel on a 10-day trip through the country.
In some parts of the world a mosquito bite can lead to more than just a pesky itch; it can lead to any number of fatal diseases.Alex Raikhel, an MSU professor of entomology and genetics, was the lead researcher in discovering and creating the worlds first transgenic - or genetically altered mosquito.
The Residence Halls Association movie rental offices have not reopened since they were closed at the end of fall semester, leaving some students in the dorms wondering why they cant rent a movie.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III was elected to the MSU-Detroit College of Law governing body at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Friday. Six other members were re-appointed to another term on the board. DCL Trustee Tracey Yokich was re-appointed a three-year term. As an MSU grad, I am thrilled that we host DCL on our campus, she said.
Julie Galambos has come a long way since middle school.And nearly nine years later, Galambos, an MSU junior pursuing a career in civil engineering, plans to share her skills at the same conference she attended in sixth grade.Galambos is just one of several volunteers from the MSU and Lansing communities who will serve as role models at An Invitation to Sample Success: A Math/Science Conference for Sixth-grade Girls.The 12th annual conference, which will be held Feb.
Into the Streets, a community service project that helps Lansing-area nonprofit organizations, had a successful volunteer turnout at its third annual Martin Luther King Jr.
While many people may have listened to Martin Luther King Jr.s famous I Have a Dream speech, some gathered Monday to discuss how that dream lives on in the Lansing area.Panelists from major ethnic minority groups, along with nearly 100 audience members, discussed the effects of Kings dream in Erickson Kiva on Monday morning.
Concern for the poor and economic justice were highlighted in Preston N. Williams speech on Sunday, part of the Martin Luther King Jr.
Wendy Wilkins recently returned from Hawaii where she attended her first meeting as a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Colleges and Arts and Sciences.Wilkins, dean of the MSU College of Arts and Letters, was welcomed to the nine-member board at its annual meeting in November held in Toronto, Canada.The council, which has more than 500 member institutions, is a networking organization for deans.
While Mondays holiday will be in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., many students also plan to use the day as a day of service.Into the Streets, a community service project, will kick off at 9 a.m.
By TYLER SIPE The State news On Monday the Capital Area Transportation Authority will begin a weeklong promotion thanking MSU student riders for their loyalty.
The grounds behind Old Horticulture Building are adorned with a snow sphere reading Support the Student Greenhouse Project. Most students passing by were perplexed about the message, which also contained the Web
By BRANDI LEWANDOWSKI The State News On Tuesday night Professor Michael Lawrence will show his MSU-Detroit College of Law students a side of him theyve never seen before. Lawrence will play guitar and sing in the MSU-DCL staff and faculty talent show called You Saw Them Rumble, Now Hear them Roar. The show is at 8:30 p.m.
The MSU Hillel Jewish Student Center will kick off the Plant a Tree in Jerusalem program Tuesday.
Students looking to get an ASMSU loan may wind up disappointed - at least for a while.The undergraduate student government currently does not have any full-time employees to oversee its business office operations, causing trouble for those who come seeking the $100 loans ASMSU provides.Its particularly frustrating when you have bills to pay and you depend on ASMSU to be there, said Laura Utter, an English senior who stopped by the business office at 3 p.m.