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1. Yoga helps former Marine recover from PTSD: Logan Stark participated in a nine-week experiment on whether yoga can benefit veterans with PTSD and said his mental and emotional recovery “was taken to another level.” Not only that, but the study by MSU psychology researchers provided perhaps the first physiological evidence that yoga improves brain function of people with PTSD. More >>
2. Spartan Saga: John Shinsky knows first-hand the importance of creating opportunity for children As a child, the MSU alumnus and former Academic All-American Spartan football defensive tackle was orphaned and lived in foster care before being adopted and eventually receiving a scholarship from Michigan State. Today, he’s working to help young people in an orphanage he founded in Mexico. More >>
3. Creating a poetic legacy: 
Poet George Ellenbogen and his late partner, Evelyn Shakir, have created the Skeen-Ellenbogen-Shakir Center for Poetry Fund Endowment for the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry at MSU as an estate gift. More >>
4. MSU receives $3 million gift for Spartan athletics: Helping to ensure the future success of MSU athletics, alumni Peter and Joan Secchia have made a $3 million gift that is being directed toward the endowment of the defensive coordinator position with the MSU football team and capital improvements for the MSU men’s basketball program. More >>
5. Climate change topic of MSU roundtable: MSU ’s Environmental Science and Policy Program will host a panel of experts that will discuss what environmental communicators have learned from the climate change debate and what are the best methods to explain complicated scientific issues. More >>
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