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Join a growing network of Briggsies on LinkedIn.com in the Lyman Briggs School & College Alumni group.
LinkedIn.com is a professional network that allows you to re-connect with past and present colleagues. Power your career by looking for a job, or new business opportunity. Once you have joined the free network look for the Lyman Briggs School & College Alumni group. |
| 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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| In Time for the Holidays: BriggsWear |
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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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HAPPY HOLIDAYS & THANK YOU for your support of Lyman Briggs College in 2009. Your gifts make a difference for students with financial needs and LBC curriculum.
NEWLY ADDED FEATURE: Check out the archived Briggantines & newsletters dating back to 1973. Archived News>>>
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| LBC on Michigan Public Radio' Talk of the Nation - Science Friday. |
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 Soon listeners of U of M's Michigan Public Radio will be hearing about Lyman Briggs College.
LBC will be underwriting a portion of National Public Radio's Talk of The Nation - Science Friday. This is part of an effort to reconnect with alumni and gain awareness with potential future students in the listening audience that includes: Detroit, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Grand Rapids and Flint. These represent areas where many Briggs alumni live and work. A similar effort during the past year has been very successful in reaching audiences covered by Michigan State University's WKAR in the Lansing area.
Support is acknowledged with the following announcement:
Support for Michigan Radio comes from Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University... a residential college for students pursuing degrees in health-related fields and scientific research. Briggs: studying science and its connection to society at: lbc.msu.edu.
You can listen to the underwriting ads on most Fridays during the academic year (beginning January 15, 2010) between 3 pm - 3:30 pm. Michigan Radio can be heard at:
WUOM 91.7 FM Ann Arbor/Detroit
WFUM 91.1 FM Flint
WVGR 104.1 FM West Michigan
Funding for this effort has been made possible by LBC's participation in Grandparents University and do not come from MSU budgeted funds.
Tell them that you are proud to be a graduate of Lyman Briggs College! |
| Brian O'Shea Wins a National Science Foundation Petascale Computing Resources Award |
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 One of the first researchers to win this award, Dr. O'Shea was recently interviewed for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) article on Leaving the Dark Days. For more than a decade he has been using the NCSA supercomputing resources to simulate how galaxies form in the early universe. "Those were dark days," he says with a chuckle. "We could run a simulation on 128 processors, and I believe I shepherded a single simulation through the machine for an entire year. There were maybe 1,000 galaxies in the entire simulation."
The award allows research teams to work closely with the Blue Waters project team in preparing their codes. According to its web site: Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which is expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in the world for open scientific research when it comes online in 2011. The Illinois Petascale Computing Facility that will house Blue Waters will have 100 gigabits per second connectivity. That is about 20,000 times faster than a common U.S. home connection of 5.1 mb/s.
Did you know that one petabyte of data is enough space to store six billion photos from your digital camera?
Read the Article >>> More on Dr. O'Shea >>>
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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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Lauretta K. Simpson, L.P.C., (1976) is the Associate Director of Career & Counseling Services at Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Lyman Briggs College and earned her Master's of Arts in Counseling from Michigan State University. In addition, Lauretta is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the State of Michigan. |
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Lauretta teaches in the co-curricular program and is the internship coordinator. She also provides career counseling and resume writing advice. Her areas of specialization include; sports counseling, career development in the sciences, and mentoring in the sciences. Prior to working at Aquinas, Lauretta worked, as support staff in medical and psychiatric hospitals and as a psychiatric social worker.
 Robert Hollister, Ph.D. (1994), is an Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He is a well respected researcher in ecology and environmental science. He has over 9 publications in premiere journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America (PNAS). His expertise is in changing tundra vegetation and biotic response to warming and other disturbances. Hollister's research in Alaska is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the Arctic Observatory Network. This long-term project uses small chambers to experimentally warm plots of vegetation in an attempt to simulate future climate change. He monitors the response of the plant species and a few ecosystem parameters including carbon balance. The results from this work are being used to better forecast and understand vegetation change in the Arctic. As a member of the Global Change Biology Editorial Advisory Board he is well aware of the many changes currently impacting biological systems. He has experience working in systems outside the Arctic Circle including Antarctica, tropical dry forests and temperate systems, especially Michigan wetlands. Hollister does extensive outreach activities in Alaska and Michigan. He often talks with community groups and classrooms about the Arctic and climate change. Dr. Hollister's webpage >>>
 Lee Begrow, D.O. (1981), received his medical degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He practices with Spectrum Health Medical Group in Grand Rapids, MI and specializes in Family Practice. In 2009, The Grand Rapids Press listed him as a "Top Family Physician" in Grand Rapids. Doctor Begrow has been a member of the Kent County Medical Society since 1991. He was elected Director in 2007. He is also an Alternate Delegate to the Michigan State Medical Society House of Delegates. Dr. Begrow is proud that his son Wade Begrow is a 2009 Briggs graduate.
 Edward Lee, D.O. (1972), is Radiation Oncology Physician with the Spectrum Health System's Crossroads Radiation Therapy Center in Reed City, Michigan. He received his medical education from MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine (1978) and did his residency with Henry Ford Health System and Harper Hospital. He is Board Certified in Radiation Oncology, Family Medicine and Preventative Medicine. His special interests are in high dose rate brachytherapy for lung, esophageal, breast and gynecological malignancies. | |
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Paul Edward Boswell Endowed Scholarship: Jeffrey Boswell Honors His Father Who Inspired Him |
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 Jeffrey Boswell, M.D. (1978), recently established a scholarship in honor of his father, Paul Edward Boswell, directed to make it possible for out-of-state students who might not otherwise be able to get their undergraduate education at Lyman Briggs College. Dr. Boswell attended MSU through the National Science Foundation sponsored Academic Year Institute (AYI), earning a master's degree from the College of Natural Science (master, Art of Teaching) in 1965.
Were it not for his father's decision to attend MSU, Jeffrey Boswell would not have considered leaving Texas for college, or discovered Lyman Briggs College. Dr. Boswell is now Director of Health Services with BP Petroleum Products, NZ. He graduated from Baylor College of Medicine (1981), then residency/chief residency in Family Medicine at Baylor (1985). After a couple of years as junior faculty at BCM he completed a residency in Occupational Medicine at the University of Texas School of Public Health (1989).
Jeffrey believes that his choice of attending LBC for his undergraduate education was an excellent choice that prepared him well for subsequent studies at Baylor College of Medicine. Jeffrey believes that LBC was then, and is now, a gem of an institution, truly offering the "best of both worlds" to students wanting a broad-based science education.
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For more information about establishing a named scholarship for Lyman Briggs College students contact: mckean@msu.edu. Ask about the Spartan Scholarship Challenge, a matching gift opportunity for newly endowed scholarships. Your gift can change a student's life. |
| Stephen Toulmin: March 25, 1933 - December 4, 2009 |
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 LBC early graduates may remember Dr. Stephen Edelston Toulmin, a British philosopher, author and educator, who taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at MSU in 1970. During this time he was working out his version of the evolution v. revolution argument. At least one Briggsie remembers him for his book Night Sky at Rhodes (1963).
Statement and photo from his USC faculty bio page:
Originally trained as a physicist, Professor Toulmin explores the intersection of philosophy, history, and science. He works on multiethnic and transnational studies, focusing on a politics based on the interaction of local and global institutions -- nongovernmental and supranational -- along with the loss of influence for Nation State governments. As Toulmin's research progressed in his career from math and natural science to philosophy and ethics to the history of scientific concepts, he ultimately saw that philosophy and science are inseparable from the historical, political and social contexts in which they evolved. This insight led to his present focus on transnationalism: the idea that social, political and historical questions must be viewed on a global level, across national boundaries.
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