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LBC Celebrates Fall 2008 Graduations
Briggs student Elizabeth Hoxie, recipient of a MSUFCU Study Abroad Scholarship. Since 2003, the MSU Federal Credit Union has been supporting MSU's unprecedented goal of providing all undergraduate students with an opportunity to study abroad with scholarships that have helped 371 students. Elizabeth participated in the Ethics and History of Healthcare and Development program in San Jose, Costa. Elizabeth is a junior in the Human Biology program. She plans to pursue a career in nursing and was excited to study healthcare-related topics in a developing country. (12/2008)
Professor Catherine Westfall published in Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier and Mega Science. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for nearly forty years. Since 1972, when the laboratory’s original particle accelerator began producing the world’s highest-energy protons for research, the government-supported scientific facility has been home to numerous scientific breakthroughs, including the discoveries of the top and bottom quarks. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for scientific discovery. Fermilab>> (12/2008)
Two Briggs seniors honored with MSU Senior Class Council's Outstanding Senior Award. Seniors Alvin Davis, Jr. (microbiology) and Danielle Fasseel (genomics) are among 25 outstanding seniors in this year's graduating class. The awardees are students who, in their time at Michigan State University, have succeeded academically, served enthusiastically, and impacted the university in a positively. The students also demonstrate outstanding contribution to the betterment of the university, its faculty, staff, administration, students, and the greater Lansing community. These students represent what it is to be a true Spartan.
Meet Blake Selby - A Briggs Student Who is Making a Difference. More>>
Briggs Visiting Professor Jeff Johnson is about to have his first book published. American Advertising in Poland, examines advertising for McDonald's, Levi's, Frito-Lay, and Coca-Cola used in Poland from 1990 to 2005. The book contends that Poles transform and assimilate these outside products into their culture. Dr. Johnson is an American studies instructor. He received the Somers Award for Excellence in Teaching and also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan. He has also recently received a Historical Research Fellowship from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. He will be in Honolulu, Hawaii doing research for a government agency that investigates the cases of missing armed service members from past U.S. conflicts.
Briggs Professors Kendra Cheruvelil, John Waller and Michael Nelson have all been awarded an Intramural Research Grant Proposal (IRGP) - IRGP invests in MSU faculty who are conducting work that addresses important research questions or produces significant creative products. Projects that are selected enhance the reputation of the researcher and the university. Dr. Cheruvelil will study the effects of lake shoreline development on painted and map turtle populations. Dr. Nelson's research involves the history of the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose study. Dr. Waller's grant theme is: Bred in the Bone: Ideas of Heredity, Race and Eugenics in Western Thought. Lyman Briggs College faculty won 3 of the 44 available grants!
Alumni Update - Dr. Mark Kay, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Program in Human Gene Therapy, and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Kay is one of the founders of the American Society of Gene Therapy and served as the President in 2005-06. Dr. Kay received the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics in 2000 and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1997. He has organized man national and international conferences including the first Gordon Conference related to gene therapy. According to Dr. Kay's website, The goal of the Program in Human Gene Therapy is to develop gene transfer technologies and use them for hepatic gene therapy for the treatment of genetic and acquired diseases. The general approach is to develop new vector systems and deliver methods, test them in the appropriate animal models, uncover the mechanisms involved in vector transaction, and use the most promising approaches in clinical trials. In addition to his professional pursuits, Dr. Kay is an avid amateur photographer. He lives in the Bay area of California with his wife and children. Dr. Mark Kay>>
Briggs professors Aaron McCright and Gerald Urquhart join a group of MSU researchers who have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. From the NSF program for Coupled Natural and Human Systems, the grant allows for a study on the effects of globalization on remote communities. According to an article on the MSU Environmental Science & Policy Program's website, the study focuses on a group of villages on the "Mosquito Coast" of Nicaragua. The researchers will conduct a five-year study of "globalization from the perspective of households" and is led by principal investigator Dan Kramer, an assistant professor jointly appointed by Fisheries & Wildlife and James Madison College. More>>
Professor Brian O'Shea has received a grant from the NASA Astrophysics Theory and Fundamental Physics (ATFP) program to study galaxy clusters and a DOE & NSF grant for research in computational astrophysics. The NASA/ATFP grant will fund a study of a variety of physics processes relating to the formation of galaxy clusters. A "galaxy cluster" is the largest structure in the universe. These are big collections of tens or hundreds of galaxies that are all pulled together by gravity, along with a huge amount of diffuse gas, some weighing more than a million billion times the mass of our sun, or more than 1,000 times the mass of the Milky Way. They act as cosmic vacuum cleaners and pull everything around them in. As a result, they are interesting because one can study them to find out about more general properties of the universe as a whole (e.g. dark matter, dark energy). For more information visit Wikipedia: galaxy clusters>>
Two Briggsies among MSU students nominated for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Stephanie Dawes, an Ursuline Academy of Cincinnati graduate, is a senior Honors College member and biology major in Lyman Briggs College. Dawes founded the MSU branch of Kila Nafasi, a non-governmental organization which sponsors Maasai girls to go attend secondary school in Kenya. She also volunteers with a local Brownie Girl Scout troop and captains Relay for Life teams each year. Dawes’ work with Dr. Kay Holekamp in the Department of Zoology has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications about spotted hyena behavior. A Bailey Scholar at MSU, she is also active as captain and president of the MSU Women’s Club Ultimate Frisbee team. Dawes plans to pursue master’s degrees in development studies and public health. Ramy Goueli, a graduate of Verona Area High School in Verona, WI, is in his first year at Yale School of Medicine. While at MSU, Goueli was a member of the Honors College and a biochemistry major in Lyman Briggs College. Goueli’s accomplishments while at MSU spanned from founding the Society of Love and Care in Cairo, Egypt to serving as president of Tower Guard. A Mowbray Scholar, Medical Scholar, and Distinguished Achievement Scholar at MSU, Goueli served as a campaign intern and spent two summers in Cairo, Egypt researching with Mustafa Awady. Goueli studied signal transduction, RNA, and the Hepatitis C virus with mentorship from Dr. Kathleen Gallo. If chosen to study at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Goueli will study global health. And as a Marshall Scholar, he will enroll at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine studying health policy, planning and financing.
MSU Ranked #1 Best Public University to work in U.S., according to poll in The Scientist magazine. More>>
HPS instructor Alison Reiheld awarded MSU's Excellence-in-Teaching Citation. Each year, MSU recognizes six graduate teaching assistants with Excellence-in-Teaching Citations. The award is presented to teaching assistants who have distinguished themselves by the care they have given and the skill they have shown in meeting their classroom responsibilities. The essential purpose of the citation is to bring University-wide recognition to the best of the graduate teaching assistants and by so doing to underline the qualitative contribution which they are making to the undergraduate program. (12/2008)
Two Briggs seniors honored with MSU Senior Class Council's Outstanding Senior Award. Seniors Alvin Davis, Jr. (microbiology) and Danielle Fasseel (genomics) are among 25 outstanding seniors in this year's graduating class. The awardees are students who, in their time at Michigan State University, have succeeded academically, served enthusiastically, and impacted the university in a positively. The students also demonstrate outstanding contribution to the betterment of the university, its faculty, staff, administration, students, and the greater Lansing community. These students represent what it is to be a true Spartan. (12/2008)
Meet Blake Selby - A Briggs Student Who is Making a Difference. More>> (12/2008)
Briggs Visiting Professor Jeff Johnson is about to have his first book published. American Advertising in Poland, examines advertising for McDonald's, Levi's, Frito-Lay, and Coca-Cola used in Poland from 1990 to 2005. The book contends that Poles transform and assimilate these outside products into their culture. Dr. Johnson is an American studies instructor. He received the Somers Award for Excellence in Teaching and also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan. He has also recently received a Historical Research Fellowship from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. He will be in Honolulu, Hawaii doing research for a government agency that investigates the cases of missing armed service members from past U.S. conflicts. (12/2008)
Briggs Professors Kendra Cheruvelil, John Waller and Michael Nelson have all been awarded an Intramural Research Grant Proposal (IRGP) - IRGP invests in MSU faculty who are conducting work that addresses important research questions or produces significant creative products. Projects that are selected enhance the reputation of the researcher and the university. Dr. Cheruvelil will study the effects of lake shoreline development on painted and map turtle populations. Dr. Nelson's research involves the history of the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose study. Dr. Waller's grant theme is: Bred in the Bone: Ideas of Heredity, Race and Eugenics in Western Thought. Lyman Briggs College faculty won 3 of the 44 available grants! (11/2008)
Alumni Update - Dr. Mark Kay, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Program in Human Gene Therapy, and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Kay is one of the founders of the American Society of Gene Therapy and served as the President in 2005-06. Dr. Kay received the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics in 2000 and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1997. He has organized man national and international conferences including the first Gordon Conference related to gene therapy. According to Dr. Kay's website, The goal of the Program in Human Gene Therapy is to develop gene transfer technologies and use them for hepatic gene therapy for the treatment of genetic and acquired diseases. The general approach is to develop new vector systems and deliver methods, test them in the appropriate animal models, uncover the mechanisms involved in vector transaction, and use the most promising approaches in clinical trials. In addition to his professional pursuits, Dr. Kay is an avid amateur photographer. He lives in the Bay area of California with his wife and children. Dr. Mark Kay>>
President Lou Anna K. Simon visited Lyman Briggs College in October, for an informal lunch with the faculty, staff and students. President Simon sat in the main cafeteria and addressed a variety of questions including: the economy and how it is effecting MSU, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), and the issues facing higher education in the State of Michigan. President Simon also asked about how the renewal of college status has affected Lyman Briggs College. Those in attendance were amazed at the depth of knowledge and frank manner in which President Simon spoke of complex local, national, and international issues. Briggs was also honored by a visit by MSU Provost Kim A. Wilcox just a week earlier. Provost Wilcox was a Briggs student for two years prior to graduating from MSU in 1976, with a degree in audiology and speech. (10/2008)
Briggs professors Aaron McCright and Gerald Urquhart join a group of MSU researchers who have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. From the NSF program for Coupled Natural and Human Systems, the grant allows for a study on the effects of globalization on remote communities. According to an article on the MSU Environmental Science & Policy Program's website, the study focuses on a group of villages on the "Mosquito Coast" of Nicaragua. The researchers will conduct a five-year study of "globalization from the perspective of households" and is led by principal investigator Dan Kramer, an assistant professor jointly appointed by Fisheries & Wildlife and James Madison College. More>> (10/2008)
Professor Brian O'Shea has received a grant from the NASA Astrophysics Theory and Fundamental Physics (ATFP) program to study galaxy clusters and a DOE & NSF grant for research in computational astrophysics. The NASA/ATFP grant will fund a study of a variety of physics processes relating to the formation of galaxy clusters. A "galaxy cluster" is the largest structure in the universe. These are big collections of tens or hundreds of galaxies that are all pulled together by gravity, along with a huge amount of diffuse gas, some weighing more than a million billion times the mass of our sun, or more than 1,000 times the mass of the Milky Way. They act as cosmic vacuum cleaners and pull everything around them in. As a result, they are interesting because one can study them to find out about more general properties of the universe as a whole (e.g. dark matter, dark energy). For more information visit Wikipedia: galaxy clusters>> (9/2008)
The DOE/NSF grant provides Dr. O'Shea with 6.2 million CPU supercomputing hours to support his research in computational astrophysics. He is presently working on models of the Milky Way (Home Sweet Home) to understand how the populations of stars got to be where they are. Using "galaxtic archeology" the research looks at the properties of very old stars in the outskirts of our own galaxy and compares their properties to those of previously studied stars. This project is complementary to observations done by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in which MSU is a major partner. Dr. O'Shea >> (9/2008)
Two Briggsies among MSU students nominated for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Stephanie Dawes, an Ursuline Academy of Cincinnati graduate, is a senior Honors College member and biology major in Lyman Briggs College. Dawes founded the MSU branch of Kila Nafasi, a non-governmental organization which sponsors Maasai girls to go attend secondary school in Kenya. She also volunteers with a local Brownie Girl Scout troop and captains Relay for Life teams each year. Dawes’ work with Dr. Kay Holekamp in the Department of Zoology has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications about spotted hyena behavior. A Bailey Scholar at MSU, she is also active as captain and president of the MSU Women’s Club Ultimate Frisbee team. Dawes plans to pursue master’s degrees in development studies and public health. Ramy Goueli, a graduate of Verona Area High School in Verona, WI, is in his first year at Yale School of Medicine. While at MSU, Goueli was a member of the Honors College and a biochemistry major in Lyman Briggs College. Goueli’s accomplishments while at MSU spanned from founding the Society of Love and Care in Cairo, Egypt to serving as president of Tower Guard. A Mowbray Scholar, Medical Scholar, and Distinguished Achievement Scholar at MSU, Goueli served as a campaign intern and spent two summers in Cairo, Egypt researching with Mustafa Awady. Goueli studied signal transduction, RNA, and the Hepatitis C virus with mentorship from Dr. Kathleen Gallo. If chosen to study at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Goueli will study global health. And as a Marshall Scholar, he will enroll at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine studying health policy, planning and financing. (9/2008)
MSU Ranked #1 Best Public University to work in U.S., according to poll in The Scientist magazine. More>> (9/2008)
Dean Elizabeth Simmons recently returned from the 3rd International Conference on Women in Physics held in Seoul, Korea. Dean Simmons was one of over 330 scientists from nearly 70 countries from all corners of the world, who registered for the 3rd International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP2008). Delegates came from African, Asian, European, Latin American, North American and island nations. The meeting was dedicated to celebrating the physics achievements of women throughout the world, networking toward new international collaborations, gaining skills for career success, and aiding the formation of active regional working groups to advance women in physics. Each country presented information about its statistics and its activities to increase women's participation. To read the resolution the delegates at the ICWIP 2008 sent to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physicists visit: ICWIP - Korea, 2008 >> (7/2008)
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