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Spring 2007

Welcome

A note from the editors
We are entering our second year of publication with this, the fifth quarterly issue of MSU Today International. We are pleased that a growing number of international alumni, internationally-involved faculty and staff and other individuals with an interest in MSU's international activities are subscribing to—and forwarding on—this publication.
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Campus News and Announcements

President Simon's 2007 address highlights "world-grant"
President Lou Anna K. Simon's Boldness by Design initiative, announced during MSU's sesquicentennial year in 2006, outlined the university's approach to redefining land-grant for the 21st century. Indeed, Simon described MSU as being in a transition from land-grant to world-grant. Go to Full Story

Event explores ways to better internationalize the student experience
More than 160 MSU faculty, staff and students filled the MSU Union Ballroom on Feb. 8 to participate in a forum to seek ways to better internationalize the undergraduate student experience. Go to Full Story

Africa the latest focus of Global Encounter summit series
The Global Encounter series of international summits continued during spring semester with Global Encounter: Africa, sponsored by MSU’s International Studies and Programs and the African Studies Center. Go to Full Story

Canadian photographer's works exhibited at Kresge Art Museum
For more than 60 years, numerous world-famous people in politics, theology, royalty, the arts and the sciences posed for Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002). These portraits or "contemporary historical documents," as he called them are often the images by which these people are best known. Go to Full Story

Features

Engineering students transform lives in Tanzania
Two Tanzanian villages—Ndanda and Masasi—are experiencing a cooking revolution of sorts. Students and faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are working with a Michigan nonprofit, Solar Circle, to launch an industry  that will supply this East African nation with solar ovens manufactured from materials available in that country. Go to Full Story

MSU strengthens partnership with South African university
As MSU continues to forge strategic partnerships with key universities around the world, a number of long-standing relationships are being ratified and/or redefined. The linkage between MSU and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa, MSU’s oldest linkage in that country—dating back to 1992—has been upgraded with a new linkage agreement signed at MSU by President Lou Anna K. Simon and UKZN Vice-Chancellor M. W. Makgoba in August 2006. Go to Full Story

Students

Sponsored student recruitment a heightened priority
The recruitment of more international sponsored students is a high priority for MSU, as it is for many other U.S. universities. Sponsored students are those whose education is paid by an external entity such as their government, their employer or an agency. Go to Full Story

MSU IVAC Spring Break students team up with Peace Corps in Panama
For years, MSU has organized Alternative Spring Break (ASB) programs in national and  international locations. In addition to this year's ASB programs, 16 members of MSU's International Volunteer Action Corps (IVAC) teamed up with alumnus Jake Slusser, currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama. Go to Full Story

Student organization sends thousands of books to Africa
What does it take to maintain the law of redistribution? While economic theorists may debate the details, Books for Africa seems to have a practical answer. Go to Full Story

Alumni

Burton Gerber shares a global perspective with students
“I stepped onto the campus of MSU 55 years ago, enabled by a full, four-year tuition scholarship from the Detroit Free Press,” Burton L. Gerber wrote when he received the MSU Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006. Go to Full Story

International alumni ‘Class Notes’
The MSU Alumni Association recently inaugurated a new international alumni Class Notes feature in cooperation with the MSU Today International quarterly update. This service is designed to help our international alumni stay in touch with each other. Go to Full Story

Awards

Indonesian alumnus among 2007 International Awards Ceremony honorees
A standing-room-only crowd was on hand for MSU's 17th annual International Awards Ceremony hosted by International Studies and Programs on March 21. Go to Full Story