Professor honored for teaching skills Richard Zinman, a university distinguished professor in James Madison College and the Department of Political Science, is this year's recipient of the seventh annual Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students.
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory will host its first open house on Saturday. The event is from 1 p.m.
With signs to reduce, reuse and recycle, members of campus environmental groups said they will try to remind students of some things they might have forgotten from elementary school. Both the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, or RISE, and Eco will join forces at the rock on Farm Lane today to celebrate Earth Day. "Every day is Earth Day, but it is important to have an Earth Day to remind people who might be too busy to think about it," said zoology senior Sowkya Rangarajan, who is a member of RISE and Eco. Members will collect petition signatures today for a comprehensive recycling program at MSU and inform students of ways they can be more Earth-friendly. Members also stood on campus Wednesday and Thursday and said they received a good response from many people who checked out their information. The campus needs a facility to sort and bail recycled material, rather than having to pay to send it off campus, Rangarajan said.
Brian Foster is a first-generation college student who believes education needs to be accessible, especially at a land-grant institution.
The Lansing Recycling Transfer Station, 530 E. South St., will accept computers and other electronics to recycle from 8 a.m.
A century ago, little was known about the world of physics. In 1905, Albert Einstein changed the way people viewed the science of matter and energy when he published five papers challenging previous scientific thought.
MSU physicists recently completed an experiment that would enable scientists to learn more about the origins of chemical elements. Findings from the experiment, which recreated an isotope of nickel, were presented earlier this week at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Tampa, Fla. "A lot of people have tried to do this experiment, and we're the only ones who have finally succeeded," said Hendrik Schatz, an associate professor of physics.
Saturday is Earth Super Saturday at the Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Drive in Lansing. Projects developed by students at the Museum Studies Program will be delivered from 11 a.m.
Current and former U.S. ambassadors brought an inside look at international politics to MSU students this week as a part of the sesquicentennial celebration. As part of MSU's 150th birthday celebration, four diplomatic experts were on hand for a discussion on Tuesday in the International Center and participated in a variety of classroom discussions across campus this week.
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a five-part series to reintroduce the people who run East Lansing.
Every day, Max Baisel said he works with people who can't afford to pay for basic health and dental care. As a program counselor for the Ingham County Health Department mobile health unit, Baisel addressed a small crowd at the foot of the Capitol's steps on Wednesday during a rally to address disparities in the nation's health-care system. Medical students and health-care professionals spoke at the event, sponsored by the American Medical Student Association at the MSU College of Human Medicine.
Two MSU students who are selling T-shirts with a statement about the East Lansing Police Department's actions in the April 2-3 disturbances had a police encounter of their own on Tuesday. Evan Dashe, an accounting junior, and Anthony Saladino, a general management freshman, were wearing the shirts and holding up a sign advertising them on Tuesday afternoon by Beaumont Tower but were not selling them, they said. The T-shirts have the slogan, "Tear gas is not designed to extinguish fires" printed on the front and a derogatory message for the East Lansing Police Department on back.
"It's terrifying. It's the worst experience. I am renting from a slum lord right now.
Editor's note: This is the third in a five-part series to reintroduce the people who run East Lansing.
The familiar food guide pyramid that graced cafeteria walls, cereal boxes and doctors' offices has been replaced. The U.S.
On Tuesday, various committees updated Academic Council members on the progress of their initiatives. The New Residential College/School Curriculum Team presented a 39-page report that included the mission of the program and curriculum requirements, including possible courses. The residential college, or school, would be housed in renovated Snyder and Phillips halls and have a focus on the humanities.
Academic officials can live in a small world. Brian Foster, a candidate for provost at MSU, also is a candidate for the same post at the University of Missouri-Columbia. And Janie Fouke, dean of the MSU College of Engineering, is another of the three candidates for the Missouri job. Foster, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, visits MSU today and will spend April 24-26 at Missouri. He said the campus visits will play a key role in his decision if both jobs are offered to him. "I guess I would go where I would find the best fit and make the best impact," Foster said, adding he also is being considered at other schools.
After cramming for one last final, stealing one last apple from the cafeteria and listening to the Beaumont Tower's Carillon one more time, Shannon Houghton will share her MSU experiences with the senior class of 2005 at the undergraduate commencement ceremony. The Senior Class Council selected Houghton in mid-April to be this year's spring speaker.