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| Lab Naming Fund in Honor of Dr. Howard Hagerman and Dr. Mimi Sayed: Honoring These LBC Pioneering Faculty Members |
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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.
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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.
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Greetings! ,
 LBC Celebrates 2010 Spring Commencements247 graduates celebrated at a commencement ceremony held in the MSU Auditorium on May 8th.
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| Student Commencement Address: Robert McClowry | | |
 When I was told that I had the honor of addressing my fellow Briggs graduates, I thought about what "big message" I wanted to convey, and in doing so, one word kept invading my mind: "community." Having given the standard Lyman Briggs talk about the "living-learning community" and all it has to offer as a Briggs ambassador, I was surprised to realize that this was not the concept of community on which I have been ruminating. I'm referring to the global Briggs community that we will soon only begin to realize. After this epiphany, I thought about when I first encountered the Lyman Briggs community and realized that it was before I even moved into Holmes Hall. The summer before I began my journey as a Spartan, I shadowed in the emergency department at Detroit Receiving Hospital. While I was there, one of the attending physicians, in a rather authoritative tone, began to question me on my college plans. I informed her that I would be attending MSU in a program called Lyman Briggs. With that, she cracked an enormous smile, began chuckling and exclaimed: "I knew you were going to say that! I'm a Briggsie too!"
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Prestigious Featherstone Prize Awarded to Briggsie | | |
Marci Baranski's education at Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs College has been an extraordinary learning experience that has earned her recognition as MSU's most outstanding graduating senior and led to her being named the 2010 Richard Lee Featherstone Prize winner. While pursuing a rigorous, laboratory-based biochemistry degree, Baranski is also an environmental advocate and benefited from two very different study abroad experiences. "There doesn't seem to be much linearity to my path from the lab to New Zealand to Bangladesh then a 900-mile bike ride to Washington DC," says Baranski, "but they are all part of my undergraduate narrative. I hope to use my perspectives as a scientist and environmentalist in my graduate studies at Arizona State University, where I'll be pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology and Society."
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| So How Tall is Hubbard Hall? Doing it the Briggs Way | | |
Recently a group of Honors Options Briggs students in Dr. Brian O'Shea's Physics class explored various ways of measuring the height of Hubbard Hall. Check out this amusing video to see a great example of what students can do with some very inexpensive hardware and free video editing software!
(For better viewing, it is recommended that you download this very large file) |
| From Holmes to Hollywood: A Friend of Briggs Story | |
 The Google alert that arrived in the Briggs alumni office read, "She tested into Lyman Briggs School of Science, majoring in pre-med. That dream quickly deflated when she realized she's a complete hypochondriac, and the last thing she needed was to feed her neurosis by being around sick people all day." With that introduction, Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University came to learn more about Lisa Cerasoli, who was a student from 1987 to 1989. After nearly two years at MSU, Lisa, a native of Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, had enough of the snow and cold and left for spring break in sunny Arizona. As her biography states, "Four years and a few beers later, Lisa got a very practical theater degree and transported herself by way of a Honda Accord (that would be stolen twice by year's end) to the City of Angels." |
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LBC Dean and Professor of Physics Elizabeth Simmons and Professor of Physics Sekhar Chivukula have been awarded a 5-year National Science Foundation grant supporting their research in theoretical particle physics. The grant period coincides with the first experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which will probe QCD processes to unprecedented precision and discriminate among proposed models of electroweak symmetry breaking. The strength of the Michigan State University high energy physics group in phenomenology, collider physics and experimental particle physics makes it an ideal location for this research. This project includes multiple efforts in the areas of linking research to education and diversifying participation in the sciences.
Michael Nelson, associate professor in the History Philosophy and Sociology of Science has a forthcoming book: Moral Ground - Ethical Action For a Planet In Peril. According to the Amazon.com website: "Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries - theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists and writers - to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral resonsibility to our planet." Dr. Nelson also had articles reprinted in a special issue of the journal Conservation Biology celebrating the International Year of Biodiversity. |
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Alumni Updates |
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 Kathleen M. Andries, M.D. ('71, Biology), Internist, Lakeside Healthcare Specialists, St. Joseph, MI. Dr. Andries earned her M.D. from Michigan State University in 1975. She met her husband, Dean K. Ray, Jr. (MSU, MAT 192, Botany) in Lyman Briggs where he was a teaching assistant. The Andries-Rays have three children, two of whom are MSU alumni. Patrick is a 2004 CNS alumnus and (Michael) Casey graduated in 2009 from Lyman Briggs in Biological Science.
 Rick J. DeRoven, D.D.S. ('74, Physical Sci/Honors College), Dentist, Rick J. DeRoven, D.D.S. PC, Walled Lake, MI. Dr. DeRoven received his D.D.S. from the University of Michigan in 1978.
http://www.rickjderovenddspc.com/index.html
Curtis P. Freeland, D.O. ('78, Biology/Honors College), Specialist in Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Internal Medicine. Received his D.O. from the University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, IA. He is owner of the Meadow Lane Surgery Center in New Port Richey, FL.
Michael R. Gold, Ph.D. ('78, Physics/Honors College), Department Head, Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Dr. Gold received his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and has been on the faculty at University of British Columbia since 1993. http://www.microbiology.ubc.ca/Faculty
Tabby McLain ('06 Zoology/Honors College), received her J.D. from the MSU College of Law in 2010. While enrolled she has had two articles published regarding the legal status of companion animals as property, concentrating on their custody upon guardian divorce, and how their status as living beings should play into the decision. Her arguments in these articles focused on a combination of science and jurisprudence. Recently accepted as a student member of the Jurisprudence section in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Member of the Geoffry Fieger Trial Practice Institute.
 Reed F. Morris, Esq. ('00, Biology), Associate, The Law Offices of Ralph A. Cantafio, P.C., Steamboat Springs, CO. Mr. Morris received his J.D. from the University of Colorado, 2003.
http://www.cantafiolaw.com/attorneys/rMorris.php
 Gary Nelson, D.M.D., (78, Biology),
http://www.frontstreetfamilydentistry.com/meet-dr-nelson.php
Douglas Rasher ('05, Zoology), graduate student in the Department of Biology at Georgia Tech University. Douglas was recently featured in a National Science Foundation article, Killer Seaweed: Scientists Find First Proof that Chemicals from Seaweeds Damage Coral on Contact.
 Debra L. Robinson, M.D. ('78, Biology)
http://www.pbcgov.com/criminaljustice/members/debrarobinson.htm
 Ronald J. Ryel, Ph.D. ('77, Environmental Science/Honors College), Associate Professor of Plant Physiological Ecology at Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources. Dr. Ryel received his M.S. in wildlife Science from Utah State University in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiological Ecology from the University of Wurzburg, Germany in 1994.
http://www.cnr.usu.edu/htm/facstaff/memberID=826
 Thomas I. Vogel, Ph.D. ('76, Mathematical Sci/Honors College),
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University. Dr. Vogel received his M.S. in 1978 and his Ph.D. in 1981 from Stanford University.
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~tom.vogel/ |
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