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Fall Commencment News & Photos
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Professor Westfall publishes book on Fermilab
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HPS instructor awarded MSU's Excellence-in-Teaching Citation
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2 Briggs seniors honored as MSU Outstanding Seniors
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| Don't forget to visit the BriggsWear Store for holiday gift giving. Not only does this allow you to show your Spartan Green, all proceeds help to support the programs and activities of the Student Advisory Group.
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For over 40 years, students who got their start at Lyman Briggs have been making a difference. Across the United States and around the world, Briggsies are using their science education as the basis for tackling fundamental problems like disease, hunger, climate change, poverty, and war.
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| MSU Selected By DOE As Site For Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) |
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Bring FRIB to our Crib - is the slogan that could be seen recently on campus as MSU competed for this $550 million facility that will attract top researchers and allow for experiments in nuclear science, astrophysics and applications of isotopes to other fields. In just a 2-day period students grabbed over 1000 t-shirts and wore them on the day that the Department of Energy made their site visit this past October.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon celebrated the result of a very competitive, merit review process a "...a great day for science." The proposed facility will be mostly underground and extend to a location just outside of McDonel Hall.
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| MSU Alumni Association - Dare To Belong |
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 In a nationwide initiative to grow our Go Green Spirit, the MSU Alumni Association has announced the "We Dare You" campaign.
A MSUAA membership is one of the best ways for Spartans to demonstrate their spirit and pride. It is also a unique opportunity for Briggsies to show support for Lyman Briggs and the Lyman Briggs Alumni Association (LBAA). The return of college status makes it simpler to designate Lyman Briggs as your constituent college.
Membership matters! Your membership may be 100% tax deductible and provides access to discounts, services and access to MSU Career Services. A portion of your MSUAA dues goes to the LBAA to support Briggs programs and activities
Show your Spartan Pride and support the LBAA! Join the MSUAA. Don't forget to designate Briggs as your constituent college.
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| Jessica Priestly Delivers Student Address at 2008 Fall Commencements |
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 "Congratulations! Pending one last round of final exams, we have successfully navigated our way through four years of rigorous natural selection. Our completion of assorted term papers, class presentations, and examinations prove we have evolved traits favorable to survival in this academic setting.
But although we have mastered the survival-of-the-intellectually-fittest challenge that is university life, our graduation and departure from this do not mark an end to our adaptation. As Charles Darwin wrote, 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.'" Full Text of Address >> |
| LBAA Co-President Nathan Tykocki's Address to Graduates |
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 "I am a 2002 LBC graduate in Science and Technology Studies - now HPS. Currently, I am back at MSU as a Ph.D. Candidate in pharmacology and toxicology; I am also the LBAA Co-President. Today many people have, and will, talk to you about where you've been, and where you're going; I want to talk to you about where you are. You are now members of the Lyman Briggs College alumni, and we welcome you. Our family is far-reaching, spanning all areas of science and medicine, and even law, politics and humanities. This is because Briggs, unlike any other school in the nation, prepares you differently for life after science." Full Text of Address >> |
| Dean Simmons' Address to Graduates |
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"With Lyman Briggs, each of the initial science or math courses a student takes provides an introduction to the topics and methods of a particular field and also demonstrates the inter-relation of the various scientific disciplines: how chemical principles underpin biological processes, how mathematical models can make sense of physical behaviors. At a broader level these courses help students understand the nature of scientific reasoning, evidence, and knowledge. For example, virologist Cori Fata-Hartley has designed course assignments that take her students, step-by-step, through the scientific processes of generating a hypothesis, determining what evidence could support or refute it, designing an experiment to gather data, and assessing the degree of confidence the results should inspire." Full Text of Address >> | |
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