This week we’re highlighting a Curriculum Assistant I position in the Osteopathic Medicine Dean’s Office (Posting #5771). Some of the job duties for this position include providing support to faculty course directors for MSUCOM Pre-Clerkship medical students in the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine professional program; working closely with course directors, other on- and off-campus faculty and course assistants at the remote sites in South East Michigan, Detroit Medical Center and Macomb University Center to plan, develop, coordinate, implement and oversee to completion a multitude of various tasks required to deliver the course curriculum; and acting as liaison between course directors, students, administrators and various departments on campus. For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.
A Best Doctors Success Story
When facing critical medical decisions, you can easily become unsure if you’re making the best choice. Best Doctors is now here to help with those tough decisions.
Here is Tom’s story. Tom was getting ready to undergo open heart surgery, and he decided to get a second opinion to make sure the surgery was the right treatment option.Continue Reading… A Best Doctors Success Story
OneNote – your own electronic TrapperKeeper®
Remember TrapperKeepers®? Before backpacks became the norm for students to carry everything, there were TrapperKeepers. One big spiral notebook that snapped closed so papers could not fall out and contained folders and dividers so you could keep all of your school notes in one handy place.
OneNote is part of most Microsoft Office Desktop software packages and is kind of an online TrapperKeeper. This program allows you create notebooks for projects, meetings, tasks or just screenshots of web pages.  Create a notebook, then add headings and notes, insert  a screen capture from any program on your computer, add audio, video, and other files from your computer or use a screen capture in a document, Outlook emails and meeting requests.   
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Thanks for Your Feedback!
Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on our first few months of blogging! We’ve considered your feedback and our experience thus far, and we’ve decided to make the following updates:
- We will keep our current categories, but they won’t be tied to days of the week. Overall you said you like our blog categories, but we’re removing the days of the week so we can post content at the most appropriate times.Continue Reading… Thanks for Your Feedback!
Our Tasty Trivia Winners!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Fun Friday Tasty Trivia! Out of our many participants, we had six people get all of the answers correct. Our two winners who sent in their answers first were Jo Silsby and Cheryl Molliter!
Both winners received a complimentary meal pass and a variety of other goodies from Residential and Hospitality Services. Thanks to Eat at State for donating the prizes!Continue Reading… Our Tasty Trivia Winners!
Events Round-Up 1/30-2/5
Here are some events happening this week that may be of interest to MSU faculty and staff. Please visit the links for more information. Many events require registration.
Tuesday January , 31
- SQL Fundamentals – Level 1, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 216 Bessey Hall
- Department of Art, Art History, and Design Lecture Series: Sandy Simon, 7 p.m., 107 South Kedzie Hall
- The Addams Family- A New Musical Comedy, 7:30 p.m., Wharton Center Cobb Great Hall
Wednesday February 1
- Roundtable: Teaching Social Justice, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Abbot Room, Snyder-Phillips Hall
- Whose Problem Is It, Anyway?, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 10 Nisbet
- Together, Let’s Jam!, 7:30 p.m., Community Music School
Thursday February 2
- Travel Arrangers Education Day, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Henry Center
- Great Service in Stressful Times, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 10 Nisbet
Friday February 3
- Kripalu Yoga, 12:10 p.m. to 12:50 p.m., IM Circle Dance Studio
- Prohibited Harassment: For Supervisors, 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., 10 Nisbet
Saturday February 4
- Meridian Township’s Winter Farmers Market, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., JC Penney Corridor of the Meridian Mall
- Mid-Michigan Women’s Expo, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Lansing Center
Sunday February 5
Fun Friday Tasty Trivia!
We know you have been pining for a new contest, so for this week we have teamed up with Eat at State to bring you some tasty trivia! Below are a set of five multiple choice questions taken from the Eat at State website. Track down the answers and email your best guesses to hrcommteam@hr.msu.edu before the end of the day on Monday for a chance to win a free meal pass, valid at any on-campus dining hall, along with other Eat at State goodies. The two people who email us first with all of the correct answers will win! If two people don’t get them all correct, it will be two people who get the most correct first. Good Luck!Continue Reading… Fun Friday Tasty Trivia!
Job Posting of the Week 1/26/12
This week we’re highlighting an Administrative Assistant I position in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Posting #5727). Some of the job duties for this position include monitoring financial activities for the National Center for Pavement Preservation (NCPP); initiating financial actions through EBS and CASHNet, including detailed sub-accounting of various initiatives and operations; conducting administrative office functions for NCPP, including administering accounts, initiating travel forms and personnel forms; compiling and preparing financial, personnel, and activity reports for various entities; initiating and processing heavy volumes of travel related expenses, including individual reimbursements and conference expenses, through EBS. For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.
Recreational Sports and Fitness Services Memberships
2012 is here and that means a new year to work toward your health and fitness goals. What better way to start then by purchasing a membership to the on-campus Recreational Sports and Fitness Centers. The Recreational Sports and Fitness Centers offer a wide variety of equipment and classes at affordable prices that allows everyone to choose a workout that fits their schedule and preferences. From treadmills, ellipticals and weight machines, to group exercise classeslike cycling, yoga, Zumba and more, the Recreational Sports and Fitness Centers have something for everyone. See below for membership prices and facility features.Continue Reading… Recreational Sports and Fitness Services Memberships
Excel 2010 Power Shortcuts
Sounds impressive doesn’t it? Maybe even a little intimidating? Not at all, with MSU’s access to Lynda.com you can take a free course to learn the Power Shortcuts in Excel 2010.
For example, did you know you can copy values, formulas or text  from one cell in a column then duplicate that information to every cell in that column with just a double click? No copy and pasting in hundreds of lines, no scrolling with the shift button held down, just double click on the lower-right corner of your original cell and the formulas, values or text in that cell populate the entire column.
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