Madison in the News:

RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES’ LABS ARE MANY AND VARIED.  Most faculty members in MSU’s residential colleges don’t have laboratories in the traditional sense, but that doesn’t mean they do any less research than their colleagues in the so-called “hard” sciences: www.msutoday.msu.edu/16Jun2004-5

Recent Alumni News:

ROBERT TOLBERT (PE '97) was recently named one of the "Top 40-Under-Forty" as a top achiever by the Network Journal (TNJ), a New York City-based magazine that focuses on African-American professionals and small business news.   For more information, go to the Featured Madisonian link: http://jmc.msu.edu/mom/showmom.asp?id=21

RONALD TENPAS (IR '85) became the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois on November 16, 2003. Tenpas previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney and Branch Chief in the District of Maryland, Southern Division, and prior to that as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Florida in Tampa, Florida. http://www.jmc.msu.edu/mom/showmom.asp?id=22

TANYA PALIT (IR '03) was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study gender empowerment programs in Bangladesh during the fall 2004 academic year. Her work will focus on rural women and men. She spent her final semester in the Bangladesh-BRAC internship program (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For more information go the Madison front page: www.jmc.msu.edu.

PLEASE SEND YOUR NEWS TO SHARE in the JMC Scene and/or the Madison Website to Kim Allan at allank@msu.edu

Coming Events:

ALUMNI AND FRIENDS RECEPTIONS will be held in September in Detroit and Grand Rapids.  Dates to be determined. 

MADISON 2004 FOUNDERS CIRCLE LUNCHEON WITH TERESA SULLIVAN (SOCEC '70), Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Texas System and Professor of Sociology and Law, Thursday, October 14, 2004, MSU Kellogg Center.

ANNUAL MADISON HOMECOMING TAILGATE, Saturday, October 16, 2004, tent located behind Case Hall.

AUTHOR SALMAN RUSHDIE will be visiting Madison on March 17. 

More information will follow on all of these events.  Contact Kim Allan at allank@msu.edu for more details or check the Website: www.jmc.msu.edu