Saginaw Valley State University

Nine students pursuing scientific research projects received funding from Saginaw Valley State University's Grace A. and Herbert H. Dow Student Research and Creativity Institute. Grants were awarded to six projects for research on such topics as cancer, calculus, and the psychology behind exercise habits. Any SVSU student may submit a proposal to receive financial support for research or other creative endeavors. Each student project is eligible to receive up to $10,000.

Saginaw Valley State University is hosting its Honors Program: Thesis Presentation Day on April 5, 2013 in the Regional Education Center. Presentations will start at 9 a.m. and end around 3 p.m.Lunch will begin at noon, for those invited, and a keynote speaker will be present. Jaime Jager will be talking during lunch about "Life Approaching Death: Time and Identity in End-of-Life Narratives".

Several students from Saginaw Valley State University were invited to present their abstracts at the 2013 Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association Annual Meeting and Symposium. The symposium took place March 13 -15 in Wheeling, Ill.Only a handful of college students receive an opportunity like this each year. Students are chosen to present an abstract at the GLATA symposium.

Fourteen Saginaw Valley State University students were inducted in the Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society. The induction ceremony took place Friday, March 22, 2013 at 4 p.m. in the Emeriti room at SVSU.Students are selected by the College of Business and Management, and have to be in the top 10 percent of their junior or senior class, or in the top 20 percent of their graduate class.

Saginaw Valley State University presents a senior recital by Amanda Lewis. Lewis will perform Sunday, March 24 at 4 p.m. in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall. She graduated from Frankenmuth High School in 2009 and followed her dreams of studying music. She enrolled at SVSU that fall where she took lessons from Dr. Edward Soehnlen for her first year and Dr. Carl Angelo for the following three years. Lewis was awarded the Rhea Miller music scholarship.

Saginaw Valley State University presents a senior recital by Rachelle Austin. Austin will perform Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall. Austin was born in Richmond, Michigan in 1987. She is currently a music major with a theater minor. Austin has been studying private voice for twelve years, the past seven years with Dr. Julie Meyer. This past summer, Austin traveled to Lucca, Italy, to participate in the summer opera program entitled Canta in Italia.

Three Saginaw Valley State University students were selected to be for the summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, funded by the National Science Foundation. Chris Silverthorn, a mathematics major from Yale, Mich., Ashley Walsh, a physics major from Snover, Mich., and Amanda Wickens a physics major from Tustin, Mich. were all accepted into the REU program.

Students from Saginaw Valley State University proved their talent at arguing legal issues, advancing to the national moot court competition held in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Jan. 18, and Saturday, Jan. 19.