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Michigan Lupus Foundation Support Group Leader to Bike From East Lansing to St. Clair Shores to Raise Money for Lupus East Lansing, MI (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 On May 18th, Jackie Saunders (leader of the Lansing lupus Support Group) and three friends will be biking roughly 100 miles from the Sparty Statue at Michigan State University to the Michigan Lupus Foundation Office in St. Clair Shores. Jackie was diagnosed with lupus in 2010, and is doing this ride in celebration of the 1,160 days...
- College marketing agency's equity distributions fund four new businesses in urban core - DETROIT, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Detroit's startup scene continues to grow, as College marketing agency Campus Commandos, a company launched through entrepreneurship accelerator Bizdom, today announced it has begun making equity investments back to the Bizdom fund that initially seeded the company. Bizdom is a non-profit and will redistribute the funds to launch four more Detroit-based...
Michigan State University A memo to employers: Just because your workers live alone doesn’t mean they don’t have lives beyond the office. New research at Michigan State University suggests the growing number of workers who are single and without children have trouble finding the time or energy to participate in non-work interests, just like those with spouses and kids. Workers struggling with work-life balance reported less satisfaction with their lives and jobs and more signs of...
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Michigan State University (MSU) faculty member Tobias Schoenherr was recently awarded the MSU Teacher-Scholar award, recognizing the quality and skill of his teaching in the university's top-ranked Supply Chain Management (SCM) program. In addition to on-campus teaching, Schoenherr teaches in MSU's new 100% online Supply Chain Management certificate programs. Through the convenience and flexibility of online learning, students around the...
Museum to foster engagement with global issues, ideas through international contemporary art New commissions, special projects also featured as Broad MSU welcomes community EAST LANSING, Mich., Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, a new Zaha Hadid-designed contemporary art museum, will open on Saturday, Nov. 10, following a 10 a.m. public dedication ceremony. The ceremony will include Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder,...
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- How a company's workforce is managed and developed plays a key role in whether a company survives and thrives. Individuals learn to leverage this connection between human resources and company success with the new 100% online Master Certificate in Strategic Human Resource Management from regionally accredited Michigan State University (MSU), ranked a Tier 1 Best National University by U.S. News & World Report. Four eight-week online...
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Michigan State University (MSU) faculty members, Dr. David J. Closs, Dr. John Hollenbeck, and Dr. Raymond S. Schmidgall, were recently honored for contributions and service to their fields. These award-winning professors are now teaching students worldwide in MSU's new 100% online certificate programs. Dr. Closs received the first-ever Jack Meredith Best Paper Award from the Journal of Operations Management. Dr. Hollenbeck was...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new proposal to build a $50 million apartment building in downtown Ann Arbor will bring more student housing that will be better, safer and for which a need exists that also will encourage even greater walkability and density to the South University Downtown Area. The Gateway at 1320 S. University would be located next to the new LANDMARK (formerly 601 Forest) building near the corner of Washtenaw and South University. It will...
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Students across the globe now have the opportunity to learn from two award-winning Michigan State University professors in two new online certificate programs. Robert Wiseman, PhD, and Tobias Schoenherr, PhD, CSCP, have been honored for their contributions and ground-breaking work. Dr. Wiseman was named a 2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network's 2012 Awards for Excellence, for his paper, "Compensation framing and the...
A survey conducted by Michigan State University reveals strong public support for government programs to assist farmers to adapt to climate change. According to NASA research, global temperatures have been rising for decades, and it’s affecting all aspects of agriculture. Regardless of what those surveyed believe causes climate change, more than 65 percent of them support government assistance for farmers, said Scott Loveridge, MSU professor of agricultural, food and resource economics....
