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Job market loosens for December graduates
As Saturday's commencement ceremonies approach for 2,585 MSU seniors, the job market could be slightly less intimidating for students prepared to enter the real world. Of the 450 respondents to the MSU national college employment survey, performed by the Career Services & Placement Collegiate Employment Research Institute, 86 percent listed the market in the fair to good range.
Childcare offered at E.L. community center
The East Lansing Parks, Arts and Recreation Department will offer winter break childcare at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. The program will provide several activities, including indoor and outdoor games, art projects, dramatic play activities, swimming and free play.
Lansing yard waste collected this week
The City of Lansing will be collecting leaves and yard waste raked to the curbside this week. Residents can dispose of leaves and grass clippings in any large 30-gallon paper bag or 30-gallon rigid metal or plastic container that has a composting identification sticker. It's illegal for residents to rake leaves into streets, and all bags and containers must weigh less than 30 pounds or they will not be picked up. Identification stickers are available for free by calling the Waste Reduction Services Hotline at (517) 483-4400.
Fuel for the future
Amid the whirring fan-like sounds of machinery designed to extract DNA from corn plants, Mariam Sticklen hovered over a Biolistic gun Monday as she worked to genetically engineer corn plants to produce ethanol, a renewable gasoline replacement. Placing a piece of corn leaf inside of the machine, Sticklen displayed a .22-caliber bullet that the machine would fire into the leaf, before DNA mixed with gunpowder can be extracted to help create an ethanol-producing corn plant. The professor of plant genetic engineering is one of many MSU researchers searching for cheaper methods to produce ethanol, a corn-based fuel.
Stores hire for holidays
With the economy improving and holiday retail expected to increase this season, businesses are looking to keep extra help as permanent employees after the holidays.
