May 1, 2012: Congratulations to animal studies doctoral students Cam Whitley, Ryan Gunderson and Jennifer Kelly. Ryan Gunderson won the 2011-12 Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society student paper award for his paper, Problems with the Defetishization Thesis: The Case of a Farmer's Market, which will now be considered for publication in Agriculture and Human Values. Cam Whitley received the 2012-13 Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Fellowship award, and Jennifer Kelly received a Tinker Field Research Grant for her study of Costa Rica's Jaguar Corridor Initiative. And that's not all -- both Ryan and Cam received a Future Academic Scholars in Teaching Fellowship award for 2012-13.
April 10, 2012: Animals, People & Nature (SOC 412) will be taught online this summer at Michigan State University:
SOC 412, Animals, People and Nature, 3 credits
7/2/2012 - 8/16/2012 Sec 730-Online section. High speed internet access required.
March 30: Jill Fritz, Michigan Director of the Humane Society of the US, gave an excellent talk at the Animal Studies Friday Brown Bag Seminar on the work HSUS is doing to improve the lives of animals.
March 29: Congratulations to Cam Whitley on receiving the 2012 Leadership Endowment Award from the MSU Council of Graduate Students, Jennifer Kelly on receiving the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarship award for summer 2012, and Christina Leshko on receiving an Animal Studies Fellowship award for her work in Isle Royale this summer.
February 14, 2012: Great News: McDonald's will no longer purchase pork products from suppliers who use gestation crates. Suppliers must provide plans for phasing out their use of gestation crates for pregnant sows by this May.
February 6, 2012: The Animal Studies Program will help fund travel for three animal studies graduate students who will present their work at scholarly conferences this year in Colorado (Cam Whitley), New York (Monica List), Michigan and Canada (Christina Leshko). Stay tuned for more award announcements.
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