Hear the Show 54 min – 30 mb mp3 Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio and with MSU vice president for research and graduate studies Stephen Hsu. Dantonio talks about developing leaders on his team and about the university-wide chemistry [...]

Michigan State University alumna Allison Leotta talks about transitioning from attorney to bestselling author, describes her new book “Discretion,” and reflects on how her time at MSU impacted her.

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: Obscenity isn’t about sex, but rather about degradation, argues Michigan State University College of Law professor Kevin Saunders, who conducted a first-of-its-kind study on the relationship between hate speech and obscenity. In his book, “Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech,” published by New York [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: April is National Poetry Month. Anita Skeen is a professor in MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and leads the Center for Poetry. The Center for Poetry is la very active group that includes a number of student writers across several different majors at MSU. Skeen tells [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: C. Leslie Charles is a lifelong Lansing area resident and MSU alumna who has enjoyed a long career as a professional speaker with an impressive list of satisfied clients throughout North America. The author of seven books, Leslie’s acclaimed, “Why Is Everyone So Cranky?” thrust her into the media [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: From 1983 to 2003, nearly 27,000 young boys and men fled civil war in the Republic of Sudan. These “Lost Boys of Sudan” trekked 1,000 miles across Africa only to face starvation, wild animals and disease. Benjamin Ajak of the San Diego area, a Lost Boy and co-author of [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: MSU professor of American Studies and Popular Culture Gary Hoppenstand is an international expert on popular culture. Hoppenstand says popular culture is, well, everything. “It’s like water to a fish,” he says. “A fish lives in water but isn’t always aware that it’s there and having an impact.” Pop [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: Mohammed Ayoob is a University Distinguished Professor of international relations at MSU’s James Madison College and the Department of Political Science. In his book “The Many Faces of Political Islam,” Ayoob, a renowned scholar of Middle Eastern affairs, challenges Western assumptions about Islamic politics but also argues that democracy [...]

Every MSU Journalism student knows the story and can recite chapter and verse about how Edward R. Murrow took on Senator Joseph McCarthy. And it all began when a young Air Force Lieutenant form Dexter, Michigan was discharged from the service because the government thought he was a security risk. Milo Radulovich and his courageous [...]

From MSU Today on Impact Radio: The One Book, One Community program encourages the East Lansing and MSU community to read the same book over a six-week period and to come together to discuss it in a variety of settings. The 2007 selection is Susan Carol McCarthy’s “Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands.” Susan talks [...]