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MSU Language Professors Receive Frances Highest Academic Honor Published: Monday, 18 Sep 2006Two Michigan State University language professors have received the French governments highest honor for academic achievement, an award that was established by Napoleon in 1808. Anna Norris and Ehsan Ahmed, both of the MSU Department of French, Classics and Italian, have been named Chevaliers dans lOrdre des Palmes Acadmiques (Knights in the Order of Academic Palms), a decoration given to those who have advanced the cause of French culture, education and the arts throughout the world. The Pal
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MSU Linguist to Document Threatened African Language Published: Thursday, 31 Aug 2006A Michigan State University linguistics researcher will spend the 2006-07 academic year in southern Tanzania, where he will conduct research to help preserve Kikisi, one of the more than 120 languages spoken there and one that is currently facing extinction. Deogratias Ngonyani, associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, has been awarded a research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foun
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MSU Ranks in Newsweek's Top 100 Global Universities List Published: Tuesday, 15 Aug 2006A new ranking of Top 100 Global Universities released by Newsweek/MSNBC this week lists Michigan State University at #62. Newsweek sought to quantify the efforts of many universities around the world to adapt to a global economy by increasing their international engagement and profile. The result is a ranking of global universities that takes into account openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research.
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MSU Granted Continued Accreditation; International Strengths Cited Published: Thursday, 10 Aug 2006Citing MSUs commitment to strategic positioning and its strong international agenda, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges has granted MSU a full 10-year regional accreditation. News Bulletin story by Kristin Anderson, University Relations
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Federal Funding Bolsters MSU Capacity for International, Area, and Foreign Language Research Published: Monday, 07 Aug 2006If globalization is the main attraction in the 21st-century economy, then the price of admission is an ability to speak multiple languages one reason Michigan State University has long prioritized language instruction along side its noted study abroad program. Now, renewed federal funding will bolster MSUs capacity for international, area and foreign language studies, particularly in less-commonly taught languages such as Chinese and Arabic.
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MSU Students to Lead Workshop at International AIDS Conference Published: Monday, 07 Aug 2006A select group of Michigan State University students will be among dignitaries and activists including the likes of former President Bill Clinton, Bill and Melinda Gates, and World Health Organization representatives to speak at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto from Aug. 13-18.
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Study Abroad Puts Safety First with Israel Program Published: Friday, 28 Jul 2006At mid-morning on July 20, a plane landed in Detroit carrying MSU study abroad students who had been evacuated from Israel. Their safe return capped several intense days that demonstrated the commitment to safety that underpins the MSU Office of Study Abroad. We take a three-pronged approach to safety, said Kathleen Fairfax, MSUs study abroad director, adding that all three components of existing safety procedures are relevant to her offices present and future stance toward Israel. MSU To
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MSU Beijing Office Hosts Reception for New Chinese Students Published: Monday, 10 Jul 2006A recent reception at MSU’s new Beijing office provided an opportunity for around 20 newly admitted undergraduate and graduate students from China to meet and mingle with MSU staff and alumni, as well as a group of Michigan students participating in MSU’s new “China Adventure” study abroad program.
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Fulbright-Hays Awards Support MSU Student Research in Africa, Europe and Latin America Published: Monday, 10 Jul 2006Four MSU doctoral students have been awarded prestigious 2006-2007 Fulbright-Hays fellowships supporting six to twelve months of dissertation research activities abroad. Three of the recipients are in doctoral programs in the College of Education and the fourth is in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Social Science.
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MSU Group Treks to Mali with Heavy Bags; 200 Pounds of Books are Gift for University Library Published: Wednesday, 05 Jul 2006Five large canvas bags filled with philosophy books and journals from Michigan State University arrived last week at a small university library in the West African nation of Mali. They were the latest installment in an ongoing donation fromthe philosophy department at MSU. They were also a repayment, of sorts, for an act of hospitality. Lansing State Journal story by Matt Miller.
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Gifted Kids Get Taste of International Adventure through MSU Program Published: Saturday, 01 Jul 2006Eleven high-achieving high school students are about to put a week of intensive training in Chinese culture and language to good use. The students, including four from mid-Michigan, are heading to China today as part of a new "China Adventure" program through Michigan State University. Lansing State Journal story by Hugh Leach.
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MSU to Co-Host Fall Beijing Forum on Quality in Online Education Published: Friday, 16 Jun 2006Michigan State University will join the China Education Association for International Exchange, a China-based education nonprofit, to co-host a fall conference on quality in online education. The event, International Forum on Online Education: Quality Assurance, will take place from Oct. 14-15 in Beijing.
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International Packaging Conference Set for June 19-22 at MSU Published: Friday, 09 Jun 2006An international packaging conference this month will explore how little things can become major obstacles. Like a childproof cap. Michigan State Universitys School of Packaging is organizing Universal Package 06 a look at design and packaging and how it regards or disregards a range of abilities, behaviors, habits and sizes. The conference will be June 19-22 at MSUs James B. Henry Center for Executive Development.
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Peace Corps Partnership Yields New Graduate Degree Program Published: Thursday, 01 Jun 2006Michigan State University, already a top Peace Corps producer, will offer a masters level program combining campus coursework in East Lansing with Peace Corps volunteerism abroad. The new MSU Masters International program is based on existing masters of science programs in the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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MSU International Education Expert Elected to National Academy of Education Published: Tuesday, 30 May 2006William H. Schmidt, a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education. Schmidt, an MSU professor of educational psychology and measurement and quantitative methods, is one of only three scholars in the world chosen for membership in recognition of their pioneering efforts in educational research and policy development.
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MSU International Agriculture Program Receives $4.1 Million to Aid Nicaraguan Farmers Published: Tuesday, 30 May 2006A $4.1 million grant extension to a Michigan State University agricultural initiative promises to bring aid to Nicaraguas farming industry and provide food, jobs and sustainability to a region poorly in need. That makes a total of $14.5 million that the Partnerships for Food Industry Development-Fruits and Vegetables has received in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development since July 2003 to continue helping Nicaraguan farmers and families sell their crops.
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Professor Uses Museums to Give a Birds-Eye View of Science, International Intrigue Published: Friday, 26 May 2006For Pamela Rasmussen, assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology at the MSU museum and a visiting assistant professor of zoology, birds are science. History. Intrigue. Morality. Rasmussen is author of a new, exhaustively exacting field guide Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. On the way there, her work on uncovering the fraud of British Col. Richard Meinertzhagen has received international attention. Newsroom Special Report by Sue Nichols.
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Africans Sound Off on Democracy, Corruption, and Poverty in MSU Survey Published: Wednesday, 24 May 2006According to new survey results, Africans support democracy but increasingly are dissatisfied with the way it is practiced in their countries. And despite mounting concerns about poverty, Africans optimism about their future economic prospects also is on the rise. This continent-wide picture of public opinion has emerged from the third round of the Afrobarometer, an 18-country survey of more than 70,000 Africans from Benin to Madagascar to Zimbabwe that is jointly administered by Michigan Sta
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MSU to Offer German Language, Culture Summer Camp for Youth Published: Wednesday, 24 May 2006Michigan State University will sponsor a two-week afternoon day camp from July 24-Aug. 3, for students in grades one through six who are interested in learning about German language and culture. ... This program provides a fun learning environment that focuses on games, songs and other playful interactions in the German language.
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MSU Returning Papers of Late Dissident Russian Philosopher Ivan Ilin Published: Friday, 19 May 2006A collection of personal papers and manuscripts that represent the life work of Ivan Il'in (ILIN, pron. eel-yin), one of the finest Russian philosophers of the 20th century, will be making its way back home after a 40-year stay at Michigan State University. A delegation will arrive in East Lansing on Sunday, May 21, including a personal representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Il'in Collection will be formally returned to the people of Russia in a ceremony at 1:15 p.m. May 22,
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