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Full Professors Banquet: MSU President Lou Anna K Simon joins Dr. Steven Spees, LBC Professor Robert LaDuca and MSU Provost Kim Wilcox.
Dean Elizabeth Simmons recently served as a panel member for Celebrating Women as Community Builders: Perspectives from Three Women Leaders. The event was sponsored by the Niagra Foundation-Michigan and also featured Sheri L. Jones, WLNS-TV 6 News Anchor and Paulette Granberry Russell, Senior Advisor to the President of MSU for Diversity, Director of the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives. The panelists discussed the contribution of women to society in different fields and talked about the challenges that they encountered.
Michael Nelson, Ph.D. was recently interviewed by Lansing's CityPulse for a story title: The Green and the Black. The article discusses MSU's T.B. Simon Power Plant, the largest on-campus coal-burning power plant in the nation and one of the 500 largest coal plants in the nation. MSU is working to come up with a plan to replace the plant as environmental activists are pushing for a more immediate solution.
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 Tony Lush (member of the first LBC class and Friend of Briggs). Until recently Tony's whereabouts were unknown. He recently reconnected by joining the LBC LinkedIn group. While at LBC Tony compiled a biography of Lyman J. Briggs, which was published in 1969. He is owner of Advance Web Marketing and lives in Rhode Island.
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Susan G. Phelps, J.D. ('73, Physics/Honors College) is working as a Legislative Analyst for the Department of Legislative Reference, State of Maryland. She received her J.D. from New York University in 1979.
Gwen L. Brewer, Ph.D. ('82, Zoology/Honors College) is working as Manager of Science Programs at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. She received her M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
 Ted Pall, Jr., M.D. ('82, Microbiology) & Lori (Emerson) Pall ('83, Biology) - Ted and Lori now live in Petoskey, MI where Ted works as an anesthesiologist and is mayor. Ted received his M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1986. Ted's involvement in local development issues led him to run for office. He served as mayor 2005-06 and from 2009 to present. While at LBC, both Ted and Lori were undergraduate Teaching Assistants. Upon graduation, Lori received the Frederic Dutton Award for students who exemplify the ideals of the college. (photo: Adam, Lori and Ted Paul, M.D. with Dean Elizabeth Simmons at Homecoming 2010)
(Robert) Ogden Copeland ('87, Microbiology) is working as Director of Regulatory Affairs for TissueGene, Rockville, MD. TissueGene has developed genetic technology used in the treatment of regeneration of damaged tendons, ligaments, cartilage and bones.
Nicholas P. White, Ph.D. ('93, Environmental Science) is working as Director for Programs Evaluation for the State of Maryland. He received his M.S. at MSU in Resource Development (1998) and his Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan (2009). Dr. White served as co-chair of the LBAA for several years before relocating to Maryland. | 
Recently, when Utah resident Bob Bayn posted on his Facebook page that he needed an O-positive kidney, an answer came from the most unexpected of places. Bayn, like all of his siblings and several of his maternal cousins, suffered from polysystic kidney disease, which eventually causes kidney failure. It turns out that one of his former co-workers just happened to read the post and was O-positive. She simply wrote back: How can I help? The decision to donate her kidney was not easy for Stacey Gomm to make, but after prayer and the support of her husband and children, she made the decision to go through with the surgery. Gomm and Bayn went through the surgery on December 17 at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. Both are doing well and have been the subject of several local news stories on how they came to share this experience. (photo: Bob Bayn with his grandchildren at Grandparents University 2009)
Science of the foods you love - Through a partnership with ConAgra Foods, Inc. students in LB494 are learning about scientists in industry and writing research proposals just like academic scientists do. As in academia, the purpose of the research project is to convince the reader (here, your boss) that you have a research question worth answering and an experimental plan to answer that question. ConAgra Foods, Inc. has supplied the students with the materials and guidance they need to develop proposals on topics related to popcorn - with the goal being a better understanding of the dynamics of the popping process. In April, the students will visit ConAgra Foods in Omaha, NE to present the results of their research. Professor Jim Smith, Ph.D., who is teaching the class, has worked with ConAgra Foods scientists to refine the topics and help students learn and understand how scientific methods apply to real-world industry topics.