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Lansing Home and Garden Show features exhibitors, MSU club

Ellen Mitchell
March 18, 2010

Towering pine trees, cascading waterfalls and an endless stretch of flowers and gardens marked the beginning of the 14th annual Lansing Home and Garden Show at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Thursday afternoon. The yearly show hosts around 300 exhibitors and 250 local businesses and draws in hundreds of gardening enthusiasts and spectators, running from Friday to Sunday. The show also has become a chance for the MSU Horticulture Club to show the public what it’s about.

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Malaysian students to host Culture Night

Emily Wilkins
March 18, 2010

The Malaysian Students Organization will host Malaysian Culture Night at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the East Lansing Hannah Community Center theater, 819 Abbot Road. The event will include multiple small performances woven into a bigger story called “When Hairi Met Se Li.”

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Colleagues, students fondly remember mentor

Brittany Shammas
March 17, 2010

George Axinn, a retired MSU professor, who continued to teach an MSU course online and at times returned to the university to teach free of charge after moving to Tucson, Ariz. in the late 1990s, died March 8 of natural causes after having seizures from unknown causes, his daughter, Martha Jerrim, said. He was 84-years-old.

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Vet college to improve efficacy

Zane McMillin
March 17, 2010

Students and faculty gathered Wednesday for the first College of Veterinary Medicine Education Day to discuss current and future learning processes in the college. The day-long event featured breakout sessions ranging from the use of technology in learning and collaboration, the use of the Internet in education and discussions on teaching methods.

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Study: youth attitudes uniform through time

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 17, 2010

An MSU associate psychology professor, along with the help of a professor from Western Ontario University, recently found that America’s youth have changed very little throughout the past 30 years. Brent Donnellan, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, analyzed data from a University of Michigan survey and said he discovered the attitudes, attributes and personalities of youth have remained relatively the same since the survey began in 1976.

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Pfizer grants MSU researcher $100K

Lauren McKown
March 17, 2010

Apoorv Kalra, an assistant professor in MSU’s College of Human Medicine, was one of nine researchers chosen nationwide to receive Pfizer’s 2009 Young Investigator Antibacterial Research Award for his study on the effects of the antibiotic linezolid on the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a common cause of staph infections.

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Event to celebrate pets this weekend

Ellen Mitchell
March 17, 2010

The College of Veterinary Medicine will honor more than 50 pets at the annual “Celebration of Life” event from 1-4 p.m., Saturday in the college’s Oncology Center, on Wilson Road. The celebration will honor pets that faced life threatening situations, as well as their owners and veterinarians, according to a statement from MSU.

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MSU, E.L. select program book

Ellen Mitchell
March 17, 2010

The city of East Lansing and MSU announced that “Zeitoun,” by Dave Eggers, will be the 2010 One Book, One Community selection. The book follows the true story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian man struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Retirees honor Irish past

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 17, 2010

Burcham Hills Retirement Community, 2700 Burcham Drive, held a St.Patrick’s Day party Wednesday for residents of the community and their family members. Partygoers enjoyed various snacks, green beer and traditional Irish entertainment.

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Academic Council approves updates for bylaw changes

Brittany Shammas
March 17, 2010

After about four years of work, the last of a series of Academic Governance bylaw changes were approved to move on to the next step of the process during a Tuesday Faculty Council meeting. The goal is to have the document through the next step of approval — Academic Council — by the end of April, said Robert Maleczka, Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, vice chairman.

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Tasty Twist reopens with local support

Zack Colman
March 16, 2010

Tasty Twist opened this week at its new 1137 E. Grand River Ave. location, after the East Lansing ice cream staple was ousted from its home since 1957 at 1307 E. Grand River Ave. by the property owner. Owner Scott King was told in November by property owners that they planned to tear down his soft serve shop to expand the adjacent Citgo gas station. He obliged, but not long after, East Lansing Tasty Treat moved into Tasty Twist’s former location.

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MSU works to improve Asian crops

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 16, 2010

Researchers from MSU and University of California-Davis are working with researchers and students from three Central Asian countries — Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — to create more environmentally safe methods of pest management in those countries.

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MSU hopes for more Asian study abroad

Brittany Shammas
March 16, 2010

Of the thousands of MSU students who studied abroad in the last year, about 11 percent made Asian countries their destination, said Cheryl Benner, communications manager for the university’s Office of Study Abroad. This percentage puts MSU on par with other universities nationwide that see lower numbers of students choosing Asia as their study abroad destination. Eleven percent of American college students who go abroad pick Asia as their destination, while more than half of students choose European countries, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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MSU lecture discusses abortion

Emily Wilkins
March 16, 2010

Abortion has long been a hot-button issue in America, and a possible solution might be in Japan. The Asian Studies Center and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences hosted a lecture called Abortion, Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Bioethics in Japan, on Tuesday.

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EPA plans to limit coal emissions

Lauren McKown
March 16, 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal in January to decrease the primary limit of ozone emissions allowed to between 0.060 parts per million, or ppm, and 0.070 ppm — standards that the Lansing area might have problems reaching

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Living City

Hannah Engelson
March 16, 2010

Betty Allen said she never experienced anything as wonderful as the kindness shown to her by some MSU students. Two groups of 12 MSU students painted the 72-year-old New Orleans resident’s home during an Alternative Spring Break, or ASB, trip.