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- Members of the Western Michigan College faculty and administration speak at the dedication of the college's new Pulp and Paper Lab. Deyo Fox and Gerald Osborn talks about the genesis of the lab and how their conversations with professionals in the paper industry led to making the lab a reality. O.W. Callighan thanks supporters of the lab and unveils a plaque thanking the facilities' financial backers. Western Michigan President Paul Sangre dedicates the lab to the spirit of cooperation and collaboration which, he says, was fundamental to the lab's creation.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-04-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former Michigan State University Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources Robert Banks and John Revitte former professor in the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, discuss their current research project in which they intend to document the forty-year-history of the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy (FGP) and the MSU Faculty Grievance Official (FGO). They discuss how they will approach writing their paper, areas in which they need additional information, which past MSU administrators should be interviewed and a review of reports written by past Faculty Grievance Officials.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama signs the Gabriella Miller "Kids First" Research Act. Obama reflects on the life of Gabriella Miller, after whom the bill is named. and commemorates death at the age of ten from brain cancer. He comments on her family's struggle. The legislation funds additional research into pediatric cancer, autism, and other diseases.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ralph Gordon discusses his career as a physician, professor, researcher, and administrator, much of it spent in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. He talks about coming to teach at MSU in 1972, leaving to help start a medical school in Texas and later working in Saginaw, Flint, and Kalamazoo while maintaining a relationship with MSU. Gordon says that medical training is moving to a trade school model rather than being an academic endeavor and that MSU's mission to produce primary care physicians is in direct conflict with the creation of the new MSU research institute in Grand Rapids. He also talks about his interest in medical history and his activities in retirement. MSU Sociology Professor Emeritus Dr. David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-05-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Candace Keller, professor of art history at Michigan State University delivers a talk entitled "Imaging culture: understanding portraiture by Malick Sidibé". Keller briefly describes her research on West African photographers, cultural histories, identities, and aesthetics from the 1940s to the present and then focuses on leading Malian photographer Malick Sidibé. She answers questions from the audience. Keller is introduced by MSU Librarian Terrie Wilson.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-02-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama talks about clean energy research and investment. Susan Hockfield, President of MIT, discusses the advantages of federal research grants. Paul Holland, CEO of Serious Materials, discusses the expansion of his green building materials corporation. President Obama outlines an energy program that draws on the administration's stimulus package for $39 billion at the Department of Energy and $20 billion in tax incentives for clean energy. He also talks about proposed budget spending to make permanent existing tax cuts for energy research and experimentation.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jack Stieber, former director of Michigan State University's School of Labor and Industrial Relations, reminisces about his childhood and youth, early employment, how he became interested in labor issues, and the history of the MSU labor school. He discusses his military service in World War Two, his graduate studies at the University of Minnesota and Harvard, coming to MSU, and later becoming director of the new School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Stieber also comments on the operations and structure of the labor school, its funding, the pros and cons of hiring faculty without doctorates, faculty personalities, and his own areas of research. Ends abruptly. Stieber is interviewed by MSU professor of labor and industrial relations, John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-06-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an interdisciplinary panel discussion composed of Michigan State University faculty entitled "Digging Up the Past: New Tools/New Subjects," panelists describe their individual research and the modern research methods and tools available to them. The panelists explain how census data, archeology, photography, personal letters, religious order records, and numismatics may be used to shed light on historical periods and events which may not be exposed in official documents or historical records. Panelists are, Siddharth Chandra, professor James Madison College, Stacey Camp, professor Department of Anthropology, Sharon Leon, professor Department of History and Noah Kaye, professor Department of History. John P. Beck, professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, convenes the session and moderates. Questions are taken from the audience.
- Date Issued:
- 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wickert talks about his childhood in Chicago, obtaining a Psychology degree from UCLA in 1933 and a graduate degree form the University of Chicago. He shares work experiences and comments on the Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric. Wickert served as a replacement-training officer during World War II and joined the Psychology Department at MSU in 1947. He joined the Management School in 1960 developing organizational psychology programs around the world in cooperation with the State Department, Peace Corp and MSU international outreach efforts.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-05-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. They talk about projects they might partner on about the AIW and labor history, upcoming conferences they will attend, the split within the AIW between those allied with the CIO and those backing the AFL, and how a corruption scandal affected one section of the AIW while the majority of the union was clean. Revitte also shares a story of his efforts to unionize graduate students at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and talks about his own career path.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-02-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection