| Lab Naming Fund in Honor of Dr. Howard Hagerman and Dr. Mimi Sayed: Honoring These LBC Pioneering Faculty Members |
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Your gift can help us to reach our goal of raising
the $250,000 necessary to name the lab in their honor and repay the remaining debt on the lab renovations completed in 2006.
Gifts can be pledged over a period of 3 years. Gifts of all sizes are appreciated - those over $1,000 receive donor plaque recognition.
Let's reach our goal so that we can celebrate this honor with Drs. Hagerman & Sayed!
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| Thanks to the talents of Briggs alumn John Miller ('94, Enviro. Science) we have redesigned items in the BriggsWear Store. The new logos feature both Briggs and MSU.
All proceeds help to support the programs and activities of the Student Advisory Group.
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Greetings! ,
November is typically the time when we thank our alumni and friends for their faithful support. This issue of our newsletter lets you know how your gifts are making a meaningful impact on LBC and Briggs students.
You can also see a list of ways that your gift can support some of the very critical areas of need. MSU/LBC students are facing the loss of Michigan Promise Scholarship and the university community is bracing for very serious cuts in state appropriations. These cuts may impact crucial LBC areas like: Learning Assistants, student involvement in faculty research, scholarships, Study Abroad, and program/facilities improvements. THANK YOU for your support - it makes a difference!
NEWLY ADDED FEATURE: Check out the archived Briggantines & newsletters dating back to 1973. Archived News>>>
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| Meet Senior Patrick Foth: He's Stepping Up In Tough Times |
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With the average number of jobs per household in Michigan declining, Patrick Foth is doing his part to increase the average. Foth is a full-time preveterinary medicine senior in the Lyman Briggs college, but he also has six paying jobs, an internship, is a member of nine organizations (both at MSU and in the local community) and is a volunteer at four charities.
"If I don't enjoy doing something, I wouldn't do it. And that's basically the philosophy I live by," Foth said. "It's one of those things that was just sort of bred into me as a child."
Several of Foth's more time-consuming obligations include working as an international spokesmodel for Saab, where he must know every detail about each new car model in both English and German, working as a bartender at Spiral Video & Dance, working as a point secretary for the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association and interning at the University of Findlay's English Equestrian Program in Findlay, Ohio.
But Foth said the activities that fill his time all are things he loves to do.
"In order for me to have more free time, an aspect of my life that I truly enjoy has to be cut out," said Foth.
Foth comes from a family that can afford to put him through college, but instead of letting his family pay for his expenses and school, he works for his money.
The money he makes pays for his rent and other bills first, and the remainder goes toward his college education, Foth said. And Foth said it all is money he feels he has earned in this declining economy.
"No one ever likes hearing that a sister, a mother, a brother is losing their job. But at the same time, I don't feel like the jobs I have have ever been handed to me," Foth said. "It's a lot of hard work and dedication that I put forth to seek out work."
Even with as much as Foth does with his time, he said he still wishes he had time to do more, and he has to remind himself that "there are only 24 hours in a day."
Reprinted with permission from The State News: 11/02/09
Compiled by: Sean Cook
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Spartan Scholarship Challenge: Helping students in need with a $1 match for every $2 contributed |
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Michigan State University has issued a unique challenge for alumni, donors and friends designed to make the most of scholarship gifts and dramatically increase the amount of aid available to MSU students in need.
The Spartan Scholarship Challenge, which leverages a $7 million anonymous gift to MSU that recently made national news, to generate $21 million in needs- and performance-based financial assistance for undergraduate students. The initiative, available only until Dec. 31, 2010, maximizes donors' gifts through a $1 match for every $2 in new endowed scholarships.
The challenge will significantly build MSU's endowment - the key to providing scholarship funds for students both now and in the future. For every two dollars a donor gives to a new scholarship endowment as part of the Spartan Scholarship Challenge, one dollar will be designated from the anonymous gift.
Donors who make a commitment of $20,000 or more will have the opportunity to create a permanent scholarship in their name or the name of someone they wish to honor. Typically, a minimum of $30,000 is needed to begin a named endowment. The match will apply to new endowment gifts of up to a total of $1 million per donor. Commitments to the challenge can be paid over a period of five years or less. Smaller gifts can be directed to a university-wide Spartan Scholarship Challenge Endowment.
Unlike funds that are expendable, endowed funds have a lasting effect because the total amount of the gift is invested. Only a portion of the invested income earned is spent each year, preserving the principal.
Upon fulfillment of the Spartan Scholarship Challenge, MSU will be able to offer an estimated $1 million in new financial aid each year on a permanent basis, including aid for women and minority students.
The match opportunity expires when the $7 million made available through previous gifts has been exhausted or by Dec. 31, 2010, whichever comes first.
Individuals interested in participating in the Spartan Scholarship Challenge can call Dan McKean, Office of Development & Alumni Relations at (517) 353-4869 or email: mckean@msu.edu.
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| Alumni Updates |
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 Rick Singer, M.D. ('84) - Dr. Singer joined the practice of Hand Surgery Associates of Michigan in 1983 after finishing his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Wayne State University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery from July 1980 to July 1983. He became board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1986 with added qualifications in Hand Surgery in 1989. In 1984, after finishing his residency at Wayne State University, Dr. Singer has also been appointed as the Assistant Director of the Fellowship Program in the Department of Plastic Surgery at Harper Hospital, Detroit.
 Ronald Popper, M.D. ('75) - Dr. Popper is the founder and medical director the Southern California Pulmonary & Sleep Disorders Medical Center. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Midicine and Sleep Disorders Medicine. Dr. Popper recently visited LBC.
 Christopher Newell ('98) - Newell is the Internet Technology Manager for the County of Shiawassee, MI. Beginning Briggs in the late 70s Newell is proud that he completed his degree. He also teaches at a local community college. He is a Spartan football fan.
 Daniel Pietryga, M.D. ('76) - Dr. Pietryga was recently named the Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His clinical and research interests include stem cell transplantation for metabolic diseases, immunoreconstitution and the prevention and treatment of graft-versus-host disease.
 Dr. Michael Young ('75) - Dr. Young is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Howard University College of Medicine, Interim Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Director of the Newborn Services at Howard University Hospital, and Director of the B.L.E.S.S. (Breastfeeding Lactation Education Support Services) Initiative at Howard University Hospital. She also serves as one of the Breastfeeding Co-ordinators for the D. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Young is a member of the Advisory panel for the U.S. Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. From September 2000-2003 she served on the USDA Advisory Council on Maternal, Fetal and Infant Nutrition, and in 2001 she was appointed to the International Lactation Consultant Association Advisory Panel. She is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine, 1979.
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| Mary Margaret Schroth Endowed Scholarship: Motivated by a Passion for Her Students |
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This new scholarship has been endowed by Mary Margaret Schroth because of her affection for the students that she has taught at the Battle Creek Area Mathematics & Science Center (BCAMSC). Mary attended MSU's Lyman Briggs College and earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and microbiology in 1981, where she was also a member of the Honors College. She received her master's degree in applied mathematics at MSU in 1985. During her career, Mary has taught at Olivet College where she was chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the BCAMSC where she works as a mathematics specialist. Mary has been a lifelong Spartan and grateful for the education that she received at MSU/LBC. She actively promotes LBC to her students and has numerous attending her alma matter.
Applicants are asked to write a brief statement of how the BCAMSC has helped to prepare them for Lyman Briggs College. For more information on establishing a named scholarship contact: mckean@msu.edu.
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| Faculty Updates |
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 Catherine Westfall, PhD has been elected an American Physical Society Fellow. Election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. Election to APS Fellowship is given to recognize outstanding contributions to physics. The citation, which will appear on her Fellowship Certificate, reads: "For her pioneering historical research on five American national laboratories, and for her organizational work in the history of physics, especially in the productive ongoing series of Laboratory History Conferences."
 The "American" Psychoanalytic Hospital in the Making is an article recently published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry by visiting assistant professor Naoko Wake, Ph.D. Looking at the files from Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, a private mental hospital in Towson, Maryland, Dr. Wake examines the integration of a psychoanalytic approach into psychiatric practice that occurred during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period there began an "encounter between the clinical and the cultural" which is examined through the clinical dialogue files at Sheppard-Pratt from June 1922 to April 1930. This is a fascinating study of "psychoanalytic psychiatry-in-the-making" which can be viewed at Harvard Review of Psychiatry (subscription required) >>> Dr. Naoko Wake webpage >>>
 Formulating a Vision for Fish Health Management in Fishery Conservation: Bridging Knowledge Gaps - is the research topic recently funded by the US Fisheries and Wildlife Service Multi-state Conservation Grant Program. LBC faculty member, Cheryl Murphy, Ph.D. is a co-principal investigator of the project. The objective of the research is to increase the background information on fish, shellfish health and disease control among fishery technicians, biologists, managers, and veterinarians involved in fishery conservation programs. The goal is the development of sound disease management strategies. | |
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