VOL. 37, NO. 6 - NOVEMBER 10, 2005

'U', hospitals work to make better doctors

Photo by Lynne Brown of Media Graphics Inc. Dianne Wagner, associate professor of medicine and associate dean for graduate medical education in the College of Human Medicine, demonstrates a technique on a simulated lower extremity. The simulated leg allows students to practice the techniques of knee joint examination, aspiration and medication instillation. MSU and the Lansing area’s two hospitals have formed a consortium that will provide additional training – such as this – and evaluation for the area’s nearly 300 medical residents

MSU and the Lansing area’s two health-care systems – Ingham Regional Medical Center and Sparrow Health System – are coming together to enhance graduate medical education, a collaboration whose ultimate goal is to build a better and more compassionate doctor who can communicate with his or her patients. (Full Story)

Boldness by Design efforts under way

Progress on the university’s strategic positioning process, Boldness by Design, is moving forward under the direction of Provost Kim Wilcox. (Full Story)

President addresses community concerns

In response to complaints by some East Lansing residents about the unruly behavior of college-age students living in the city, President Lou Anna K. Simon is working to involve university and community members in a solution. She also has expressed concern for correcting perceptions of the alcohol-related problems. (Full Story)

Governor's Return to Learn campaign at 'U'

There are 1.5 million Michigan residents who have attended college but never completed their degrees. Gov. Jennifer Granholm has declared November Return to Learn Month in Michigan to encourage some of these people to take the steps necessary to complete a degree or other certificate of higher learning. (Full Story)

Q&A with Sandra Logan, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Global Literary and Cultural Studies Research Center

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Week marks importance of international education to 'U'

War, famine, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, impending pandemics – we are deluged daily with stories about major international crises in the news media. By contrast, MSU’s observance of International Education Week, with events stretching from Nov. 12 through 20, is a unique opportunity for a local sampling of good global news. (Full Story)

Student Affairs and Services welcomes new administrators

MSU’s Division of Student Affairs and Services has increased its opportunities to partner with university departments and units with the
addition of two new administrators. (Full Story)

MSU welcomes new faculty

MSU’s tenure system increased by 96 faculty and academic administrators between Oct. 1, 2004, and Sept. 30, 2005, according to the Office of Academic Personnel Records. (Full Story)

Business-IT students to partner with area organizations

Several teams of MSU undergraduates are ready and waiting to help Mid-Michigan businesses and nonprofit organizations solve their digital problems – for free. (Full Story)

MSU to present 'The Life'

To prepare for directing MSU’s upcoming production of “The Life,” an adult musical depicting the seedy life of prostitutes and pimps in New York City’s Times Square, Rob Roznowski did research on the “world’s oldest profession” by traveling to New York in August and observing firsthand how prostitutes and pimps carry on their business. (Full Story)

Nobel Prize winner began academic research at MSU

Robert Grubbs, a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, began his academic career as a faculty member in the MSU Department of Chemistry. (Full Story)