Six students received cash awards this past semester to support their undergraduate research projects at Lake Superior State University. An anonymous donor funds the Undergraduate Research Grant through LSSU's Foundation Office. Full Article >>
New dean wants to see students and faculty exchanging ideas, with future engineers providing designs and prototypes, and business students setting up companies to market them. Full Article >>
Not many college students are able to sail the St. Mary's River, Straits of Mackinac and northern Lake Michigan as part of their summer studies, but LSSU students can. Full Article >>
Twelve faculty received promotions and six were granted emeritus status during the board's traditional meeting just before the annual commencement ceremony. Full Article >>
Physical plant staff and contractors raise a temporary big-top tent that will help house dining facilities during this summer's renovation of Cisler Center's Quarterdeck dining area. Full Article >>
More than 150 high school students from all over the state were at LSSU for interpretive sessions and competitions to decide who will represent Michigan at the 2012 National Envirothon, held this July in Selinsgrove, Pa. Full Article >>
LSSU creative writing professor Jillena Rose's poem Taos is this week's selection by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. It appears in newspapers that pick up his column and on the Web site American Life in Poetry. Full Article >>
Program promotes experimentation of teaching methods and engages participants in an active style of learning. Students encounter more sophisticated and intricate material; self-learning is emphasized. Full Article >>
Sault Ste. Marie Detachment of the Marine Corps League has created a scholarship that will benefit eligible veterans who are earning a four-year degree at Lake Superior State University. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University’s psychology department recently showcased the research results of its graduating students. The topics ranged widely from food consumption while playing video games, to the qualities associated with a satisfying dating relationship. Full Article >>
The group's April 25 concert in LSSU's Art Center focused on intricate rhythms featuring Japanese taiko, gongs, bells, wooden clappers, shakers and bamboo flutes. It was a percussionist's - and photographer's - delight. Full Article >>
LSSU's School of Nursing had 24 seniors present research topics during a symposium held in late April. Another 24 licensed practical nursing students displayed posters about clinical nutrition. Full Article >>
Watch for updates!Biology professor Ashley Moerke receives Distinguished Teaching Award. Student respondent Peter DeKraker and Sault native, LSSU alumnus Stuart D. Flynn M.D. speak at commencement. Plus some scenes — including a couple of downloadable monster panoramas — from commencement day 2012. NEW! May 1 - YouTube video of the entire ceremony. NEW! May 2 - Phil Hart and Honors program scholars. NEW! May 3 - Views from on high! Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University criminal justice professor Herbert Henderson, right, accepts the third annual LSSU's Excellence in Advising Award from Karen Johnston, director of the LSSU Advising, Retention and Orientation Office, during LSSU's commencement day honors breakfast on April 28. Full Article >>
Sault native and LSSU alumnus Stuart D. Flynn M.D. reminded nearly 550 Lake Superior State University graduates of the qualities of a good leader when he spoke to them as part of the university's 50th commencement ceremony on Saturday. The ceremony included remarks from LSSU President Tony McLain and student respondent Peter DeKraker, as well as the announcement of Prof. Ashley Moerke as the recipient of this year's LSSU Distinguished Teaching Award. Full Article >>
LSSU's 50th commencement exercise includes the pipes and drums of Sault Ste. Marie's Duncan Family, who have ushered in graduates at every commencement ceremony. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University’s School of Business has presented its 12th annual distinguished alumna award to Tom Weiss, practicing Michigan attorney and former chair of the LSSU Board of Trustees. The award recognizes Weiss's eclectic and successful career that runs the gamut from a hotel entrepreneur to an attorney licensed to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court. Full Article >>
Building will include offices for Sault Ste. Marie SmartZone, work space for start-up companies, and will be the center point for work that LSSU and the Sault Economic Development Center are doing to promote business development in the region and beyond. Full Article >>
Five senior-project engineering teams unveil projects to the public on April 27, 1-3:30 p.m., in LSSU's Center for Applied Science and Technology building. Full Article >>
LSSU Students in Free Enterprise took their successful community projects on the road to compare them with their peer groups during a regional competition in Chicago. Full Article >>
Political Science seniors apply knowledge and skills acquired from courses in multiple disciplines to carry out a long-term and ambitious project that requires creativity, planning, and self-discipline. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University legal studies professor Carol Andary donned academic robes when her legal process class convened a mock trial. Andary, a licensed attorney, has been teaching students in this way for most of the 25 years she's been a professor at Lake State. Full Article >>
Sault Ste. Marie resident and Sault Area High School graduate Daniel Stinehart has been chosen as LSSU's Outstanding Native American Graduate. Full Article >>
The Dr. Madan Saluja Endowed Scholarship is for qualified students on the Lake State track or cross-country team who are taking a major or minor through LSSU's School of Business. Full Article >>
Meaghan Parker's internship at Glamour magazine in New York City was way too much fun to keep to herself. So she has recruited two fellow LSSU business students to follow in her footsteps. Full Article >>
Cooperative three-year program that leads to a career in radiography will be discussed during an hour-long presentation starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 20, in the LSSU Walker Cisler Center. Full Article >>
Local entrepreneurs will want to catch the MEDC Entrepreneurial Services Bus Tour when it stops at LSSU on April 24. Everyone is welcome at the event, which starts at 4:30 p.m. in the Cisler Center Crow's Nest. Full Article >>
LSSU chapter of the Society of Women Engineers sponsors fourth annual Saturday of engineering explorations for the Northwest Great Lakes Girl Scout Council, which spans the Upper Peninsula into northern Wisconsin. Full Article >>
Formerly known as Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble, this Japanese drumming group, which performed here in 2006, has received more requests to return to LSSU than any group that has performed in the Arts Center. Full Article >>
Key areas of the brain are affected by a parasite responsible for "cat lady disease." Vitamin D deficiency could trigger depression. And areas in Michigan's lower peninsula could offer better habitat for a type of fishers typically found only in the UP. Full Article >>
Students master blood-drawing techniques to monitor the health of LSSU's salmon stock. Faculty and students are also gearing up for summer fish studies to be conducted throughout the St. Mary's river and upper Great Lakes basins. J Full Article >>
Students receive special training through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program to help area clients referred to them through the United Way Volunteer Center. Full Article >>
Students may take courses concurrently at LSSU and community colleges under new agreement with five northern Michigan community colleges. Full Article >>
Need a scholarship? Did you or a family member volunteer during the I-500 snowmobile race? You may qualify for the Ross Roe Scholarship. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University communication students won't be afraid to get their feet dirty on April 10 to raise awareness of children around the world who don't have access to footwear. Full Article >>
Julie Barbour channels her experiences as a young mother into her first book of poetry, to be published June 29 by Finishing Line Press Full Article >>
Interested in kayaking and canoeing? Then LSSU's EUP Paddling Club is interested in you. Join the members in the Norris Center pool on Sunday mornings. Full Article >>
You may get tickets at the door of the fifth annual LSSU Ducks Unlimited banquet that's set for 5 p.m. on March 31 in the LSSU Cisler Center, but call ahead to reserve your spot. Full Article >>
Lake Superior State University students are manning the phones for an annual campaign that asks alumni and friends to support the Fund for LSSU. Full Article >>
LSSU students will gather on campus late on March 28 before leaving early March 29 for Lansing to push legislators to bring more funding to higher education. Full Article >>
LSSU's student life office and the EUP sexual violence prevention team encourage domestic violence survivors – themselves, friends, or families – to illustrate shirts with messages and art. Pick up blank shirts March 26-30 at the LSSU Counseling Center. Creations will be displayed April 2-6 in LSSU's Cisler Center. Full Article >>
"Violet," the first film produced by a student as a senior project and requirement for graduation, will be shown on campus April 13-15 in the LSSU Arts Center. Full Article >>
A 14-foot effigy went up in smoke during Lake Superior State University's annual burning of a snowman to welcome spring. The ceremony, held March 20 in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has been going on since 1971. Spring officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere at 1:14 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Full Article >>
