Lansing mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero received an endorsement from Michigan AFL-CIO last week, The Associated Press reported. The AFL-CIO represents more than 600,000 active and retired Michigan union members, including United Auto Workers.
A team of MSU instructors and students is developing a computer video game to educate people — primarily kids — in Cambodia on how to avoid land mines and other explosive jungle perils. The team created a maze-like video game that uses image repetition to embed warning signals in players’ minds.
Jen Ganzhorn, a 2009 MSU alumna, was a featured artist Friday in (SCENE) Metrospace’s “3-in-1 Show” exhibiting three bronze statues and four other pieces made during her time at MSU. The show was the kick-off event for (SCENE) Metrospace’s 3-in-1 gallery exhibition.
More than 20 students, ranging in age from 5 to 17 years old, performed a piece or two at the MSU Community Music School All-School Recital, which featured young Community Music School, or CMS, pianists and violinists from the local area. CMS, an outreach division of the MSU College of Music, provides music lessons to students of all ages.
After an eight and a half hour meeting, assembly members of the MSU Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected current Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak as president of RHA’s 41st session.
Spartan engineers will be given the opportunity Monday to pursue up to 60 new jobs with IBM — jobs they wouldn’t have to leave the city of East Lansing to get. Recruiters from IBM’s Global Delivery Center, which is located on the second floor of the MSU Federal Credit Union at 600 E. Crescent Road, for application services will be on campus for a meet-and-greet with both MSU and non-MSU graduates next week.
MSU no longer will use live animals to teach veterinary students surgical techniques, a spokesperson for the College of Veterinary Medicine said Thursday. Linda Chadderdon, spokeswoman for the college, said the university will switch from live animals to alternative methods of animal surgery education, such as animal cadavers, beginning in the fall.
State Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, introduced a plan Wednesday to extend lawmaker term limits, according to a statement.
Major transportation issues will be addressed in October as three Michigan universities — MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University — plan to meet in Dearborn for a three-day conference called Transforming Transportation: Economies and Communities, a new transportation research consortium put on by the University Research Corridor, or URC.
The 95th annual Agriculture and Natural Resources Week will take place March 5-13 on campus.
Members of the Michigan House of Representatives Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee held a meeting with college students at Kellogg Center and allowed the students to testify about budget concerns facing colleges and universities, Wednesday.
A new grant from the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, will help the MSU Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement send 95 more student volunteers into the Greater Lansing community this semester and in the fall by providing something often taken for granted — transportation.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, will will hold its presidential elections at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in Van Hoosen Hall. The three candidates include RHA President Emma Perot, Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak and McDonel Hall representative Ryan Starski.
MSU is ranked among the top 40 U.S. academic institutions in an annual survey of the best places to work in academia for the fourth year in a row. According to The Scientist magazine’s survey, MSU fell from No. 4 in 2008 to No. 17 in 2009.
Snow removal services in East Lansing were reduced because of a steady decrease in tax revenue, the city announced Tuesday. Currently, snow removal starts when there are 3 or more inches of snow on the ground.
Local governments across the state will be receiving $195,996 in Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant awards, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Monday.
The Forage Technology Conference scheduled for 10 a.m. March 11 at Kellogg Center is part of Agriculture and Natural Resources Week.
The Center for Gender in Global Context at MSU will host its spring colloquial series, New Research on Women and Gender: Global and Local Perspectives, at 1:30 p.m. March 19 in Room 302 of the International Center.
The East Lansing Public Library will be holding Second Sunday @ Dublin Square from 4-9 p.m. March 14 at Dublin Square, 327 Abbot Road.
Curtis Stokes, dean of James Madison College, will lead a lecture and discussion Wednesday titled Race and Human Rights at 6 p.m. in Club Spartan on the third floor of Case Hall.