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This year the MSU Innovation Center hosted its annual Innovation Celebration. At this event, many awards were presented to MSU students and faculty for their technological and entrepreneurialinnovations.The Student Start Up of the Year Award was given to Reel Free, a medical technology, or MedTech, startup co-founded by brothers Alexander and Austin Pollock and supported by the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship andInnovation. Austin Pollock is a recent graduate of Michigan State and studied mechanical engineering and Alexander Pollock is a senior studying humanbiology."It meant a whole lot to be recognized for the award, but it means more being a part of the Burgess Program," Alexander Pollock said. "There's so many great startups in the institute and just being one among them is anhonor."Reel Free began for Alexander and Austin Pollock when their grandfather, who was using supplemental oxygen, had a fall that was caused by tripping over the tubing that carried theoxygen. "He asked us if we could create a solution, a solution that organized the oxygen tubing," Austin Pollocksaid. At the time, Austin Pollock was an undergrad and developed a product through 3D printing. Not knowing what would come next, he posted a video of the product to his LinkedInpage.Read more at https://lnkd.in/e-n-3hPX.

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Chloe, Carmen, Britney, Lillian, Ameenah, Tanya, Monifa, Dora, Sarah, Svitlana, María Teresa, Liz, Flor, Keira, Azya and Teresa. These are the names of the women and girls featured in a 20-foot-wide painting on a Broad Art Museum wall, titled “A Long Line of Women.” Surrounded by a lush environment, one woman climbs a ladder to pick a persimmon. Another holds her child while a girl next to her climbs into the bed of a truck. One woman stands in the center of the painting, holding a sycamore leaf in her left hand. A stillness in the chaos of the scene around her, she locks eyes with the viewer. Her name is Teresa Dunn. Dunn is not just one of the many subjects of the painting —but also its creator. As an art professor at Michigan State University, Dunn's "A Long Line of Women"painting is featured in the Broad Museum's current faculty work exhibition. The piece explores how people and their stories transcend across timeand connect to the world around them, which is a persisting theme throughout Dunn's work.Her own life has guided much of this conceptual framework, as her experiences as a Mexican American woman have often been shaped by interactions between identity and society. Now, Dunn aims to tell underrepresented stories, recognizing their value in her work as an artist and professor.Read more at https://lnkd.in/gaeyrXZG.

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MSU Recreational Sports and Fitness Services, in collaboration with University Health and Wellbeing and Student Life & Engagement and the Beal Botanical Garden, is holding free yoga sessions in the garden throughout the summer. “Yoga in the Garden is intended to provide the campus with health and well-being opportunities to help Spartans feel their best,” University Health and Wellbeing Communications Director Courtney Placinta said. Unlike prior years, there is no need to register in advance for each session.Those participating in each session are asked to bring water and a yoga mat or towel and to dress appropriately for the weather. If inclement weather occurs, cancelled classes will be communicated on social media.Read more at https://lnkd.in/e2viCxZv.

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The tumultuous times of COVID-19 were uniquely complicated for Michigan State University's swim and diveteam.For them, the first semester was not only defined by COVID-19 policies, but also the decision by administration to permanently terminate swimming and diving atMSU. During their remaining three years on campus, the class wasn’t defined by their athletic accolades, but instead their steadfast commitment to maintaining the almost century old legacy of MSU swimming anddiving. Read the whole story here: https://lnkd.in/eii5tJKc

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Michigan State University plans to expand its new centralized surveillance system into the city of East Lansing, a move experts sayexacerbates current privacy and civil liberty concerns with thesystem.MSU is still integrating thousands of cameras and sensors across campus into the system, which uses an AI-powered software that can track people, vehicles andcrowds.The expansion was first recommended by outside consultants in a review of MSU’s response to the February 2023 campusshooting.The review, which was conducted by Ohio-based firm Security Risk Management Consultants and released publicly in October 2023, lauded the centralized surveillance system, which had been in the works before theshooting.But they recommended MSU Police “encourage businesses and local residents to share access to their private cameras that provide views beneficial toMSUPD.”MSU Department of Police and Public Safety spokesperson Dana Whyte said that once MSU finishes implementing the system at a campus-wide level, it will start reaching out to local businesses and residents to request access to their privatecameras.Read more at https://lnkd.in/eYbk8aSr.

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Every time Tina McGinnis has heard the stirringmelody of MSU’s alma mater, “MSU Shadows,” throughout her adult life, she’s been reminded of a “missedopportunity.”The song “always made me cry,” shesaid. MSU was McGinnis' dream school, but her time there was cut short by a family tragedy. She returned home, where she started a family and career. But she always wanted to finish herdegree. In spring 2023, however, she came back to complete her remaining credits. She will graduate this Saturday with a degree in interdisciplinary studies in social science, over 30 years after she firstenrolled.Read more at https://lnkd.in/eZmKm6MB.

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The State News is covering the ongoing Gaza solidarity encampment campus protest. This report will continue to be updated throughout the day. Update — 12:30 p.m.MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz visited the Gaza solidarity encampment behind Wells Hall and spoke to protestors. He addressed concerns that the student activists’ tents and signage would be removed by MSU Police, telling them his administration will review their permit request and decide whether the encampment can continue.“It’s gonna go through our process,” he told The State News after his discussion with students. “I support them petitioning to be able to have the encampment.”The student activists pushed Guskiewicz on their demand that the university divest from an Israeli bond and stock portfolios they say fund weapons manufacturing. He deferred to MSU’s Board of Trustees, which he said is “reviewing our investment and endowment policies.”The board, however,said earlier this monththat it will not consider “divestment of any kind.”Read updates at https://lnkd.in/eR3we6ms.

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Every once in a while, when studying at the Union or taking a walk through the north side of campus, you may be greeted by a big, friendly golden retriever and his trademark red harness. Raymond and his owner, Mike Harju, have become familiar faces for students at Michigan State University. They walk around ten miles a day, with many of these excursions taking place on and around campus.However, before coming to East Lansing, Raymond was a one-year-old puppy at a small kennel in Haslett and Harju was looking for another service dog as his, at the time, was reaching twelve years old. "I had to get one to replace him, which was tough, so we went to a lot of kennels and looked at all the dogs and then I found him," Harju said. Now, Raymond is five years old. His job as a service dog is to keep Harju company, manage his anxiety and assist if Harju were to pass out or faint. Raymond knows the first two steps of CPR.Click here to read the whole story: https://lnkd.in/eWjkMQdp

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Pick up our last print of the semester, the graduation edition! Print will be back in July, until then stay up to date on all news through our website statenews.com. Read the online print here https://lnkd.in/eGcsvBwc.

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