Tops in stocks
As the Barron's Challenge stock-picking contest marked its fifth anniversary, CMU has maintained its record for holding at least one top 10 spot in each of the contests to date.
CMU finance professor James Felton has achieved high ranks in the challenge before, but this year he managed to secure the top spot among the nearly 200 professors who competed. More than 1,800 students and professors participated nationwide.
Felton, who generated a net gain of nearly 22 percent on his hypothetical stock portfolio, will receive a grand prize of $1,500. This is the fourth time that Felton has placed in the top 10 in the professor category. Read more...
Search for contacts continues in meningitis death
Approximately 70 individuals have been treated and more than 150 others have been interviewed in response to the meningitis death of a CMU student.
LaMott Smith, a 26-year-old CMU senior from Sterling Heights, died of meningococcal meningitis, a bacterial form of meningitis, May 7 after falling ill May 6 in Coopersville, according to Ottawa County Health Department officials.
In cooperation with CMU's University Health Services, Central Michigan District Health Department and Ottawa County Health Department officials have been working to identify the student's close, personal contacts. Of the identified individuals, 70 have been treated by private physicians, CMU's University Health Services or the CMDHD. Read more...
Catch final baseball of the season this weekend
Coach Steve Jaksa and his CMU baseball players wrap up regular season play at home this week. CMU hosts Michigan State at 3 p.m. today (Tuesday). And a crucial series against first-place Eastern Michigan begins at 3 p.m. Thursday and continues at 3 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday. Go to the athletics Web site for more on CMU baseball.
Walking for immigration awareness
This summer, CMU faculty member Christi Brookes will endure her second seven-day, 75-mile walk to address immigration policies in the U.S.
Brookes, a CMU assistant professor of French, first took part in the "Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life" in the summer of 2007. The project is a coalition of groups that march from Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico, to Tucson, Ariz., to raise awareness of the deaths that occur in the Tucson border sector area due to changes in U.S. border control policies and to bring attention to immigration policies. The number of migrant bodies recovered from the area reached 237 between 2006 and 2007. Read more...
Best in class
A CMU student teacher's dedication to positively impacting the lives of young students has earned her Michigan's highest honor.
The Michigan Association of Teacher Educators recently named December 2007 CMU graduate and Almont native Lauren Haynes as the 2008 Outstanding Student Teacher/Intern of the Year. She will receive a $1,000 cash prize and an expedited interview with the Michigan school district of her choice.
During the fall of 2007, Haynes worked as a student teacher at Orville C. Krause Elementary School in Armada, completing eight-week placements in the kindergarten classroom of Jody Andrews, who nominated her for the award, and in the first-grade classroom of Jennifer Bovenschen. Read more...
