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Metrospace to host 3D art exhibition
(SCENE) Metrospace will host a reception from 6-9 p.m. Sept. 11 to open its newest art exhibit, 3 Cities in 3D.
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Filmmakers set to shoot Old Town
Lansing area filmmakers will be challenged to prove their love for Lansing’s Old Town in a 72-hour film competition starting Sept. 1
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ASMSU seeking stronger connection with student body
The 46th session of ASMSU kicked off Saturday at a Student Assembly meeting at Patriarch Park, 1100 Alton Road, to appoint new representatives, outline the upcoming school year and discuss ways to increase the group’s campus presence.
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'The Soloist' author speaks, inspires at Breslin Center
The author of “The Soloist,” Steve Lopez, came to inspire new Spartans to find passion at MSU on Monday morning at Breslin Center, as part of the university’s “One Book, One Community” program.
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Grand River's 'cursed corner' to house new hopeful restaurant
At the intersection of East Grand River Avenue and Abbot Road is a corner property noted by local business owners for its ability to thwart success, but East Lansing resident Joe Conrad said he’ll challenge the reputation of 101 E. Grand River Ave. with today’s opening of his restaurant, Conrad’s College Town Grill.
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World’s largest particle accelerator undergoes repair
The end of the world might be on hold. At least until November. Almost a year after the world’s biggest high energy particle accelerator broke 10 days after being switched on, a plan was created to resume operations, scientists and MSU professors associated with the project said Wednesday.
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Stimulus funds unexpected bonus for tri-county region
With more than $70 million in federal stimulus funds awarded this year, officials from the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission have been able to complete more projects this summer than expected. The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission is a combined effort between Ingham, Clinton and Eaton counties and includes officials from East Lansing.
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E.L. holds annual safety carnival
As East Lasing native Allison Foster sat at a picnic table with her sons Connor, 7, and Cole, 8, a motorcycle cop revved up his engine only feet away. This wasn’t any scene of a crime, it was the 26th annual National Night Out, a safety carnival held on Tuesday at Patriarche Park, 1100 Alton Road.
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Bills promoting biker safety might expand driver’s education
Bikers might feel safer riding around campus if legislation promoting biker safety is passed in the state Senate. The bills, introduced May 5 by state Sen. Tom George, R-Texas Township, would require driver’s education classes to provide instruction on bicycle law and increase awareness of bicyclists on the road.
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National Night Out to create bond between community, police
Payback is a dish best served cold. Ice cold. “Everybody likes to dunk Chief Wibert,” East Lansing police Sgt. Patricia Nowak said. “He’s a very good sport; he volunteers for this every time. (The) water’s usually pretty cold.”
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National health care advocates hold rally on streets of E.L.
As passing cars honked their horns frantically, Haslett resident Kal Joshi stood and smiled. Joshi, along with about 30 others, stood on the corner of Abbot Road and Grand River Avenue on Thursday with their signs raised delivering one message. “Health care is a human right,” Joshi said.
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Pets featured at E.L. event for children
Reptiles and insects were all the rage Tuesday at the final 2009 Play in the Park interactive children’s entertainment event at Valley Court Park, 201 Hillside Court. Preuss Pets, a family owned exotic pet store located in Lansing’s Old Town, was the main attraction with an assortment of reptilian creatures, including a Savannah monitor lizard and a 62-year-old South American red-footed tortoise named Fred. Jessica Howe, a community events intern with the city of East Lansing, organized July’s four Play in the Park events and said Tuesday’s Pets in the Park was unique because audience members were able to interact with animals they might usually only be able to see through the glass in a pet store. “We’re just going to talk about how (the animals) survive in the wild,” Howe said.
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MSU professor organizes program to boost worker quality
Supervisors should be more attentive to the work and family needs of employees to maximize worker health and efficiency, according to a recent study co-authored by an MSU professor. Ellen Kossek, an MSU professor of organizational behavior and human resource management, helped create a training program aimed to ease tensions between employees’ work and family demands by instructing supervisors to address those concerns.
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MSU research project works to slow climate change, help poor
MSU researchers are working on reducing poverty and mitigating climate change at the same time. Their project, called Carbon2Markets, works to slow climate change through sequestering carbon via agroforestry and helps provide income to farmers.
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Census shows increase in young voters in 2008 election
Although overall voter participation remained statistically unchanged between the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, the people making up the voting population did shift, including an increase in younger voters.
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MSU student attains internship in NASA program
Cheryl Goetz beat more than 100 applicants vying for 18 spots for a summer internship at the Houston-based National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, to study the health risks of long-term space flight on the human body. Goetz, a mathematics and premedical senior, said she has been working since May with the NASA Flight Analogs Project, a program that studies the effects of microgravity and space flight on the human body at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, Texas. “Every day I learn something new,” she said.
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Jet America suspends Lansing flights for 31 days
Plans to offer low-cost flights out of Lansing this summer never left the ground after Jet America suspended flights and began refunding tickets earlier this month. The carrier, which was supposed to begin service July 13, planned service to Lansing Capital Region International Airport with direct flights to Newark, N.J., as well as to Melbourne, Fla., near Orlando.
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MSU police department receives federal stimulus money
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety was awarded $48,622 in federal stimulus money as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Gov.
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New law might permit electronic ballots for citizens overseas
New state legislation might make it easier for Michigan residents serving abroad in the military to cast absentee votes and to have them counted in time for Election Day. Operation: Make Our Troops Count is a proposal that would allow service men and women abroad to receive absentee votes electronically via e-mail and then mail them to their local county clerk.
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Federal grant given to MSU plant ecologist
An MSU researcher could unlock genetic factors that contribute to plant invasions with the help of a $630,000 grant awarded by the National Science Foundation. The grant, which will be distributed during the next four years, was awarded last month to Jennifer Lau, a plant evolutionary ecologist with the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station’s Kellogg Biological Station.