SVSU TODAY

Week of October 21, 2024

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Susan Brasseur, SVSU’s director of continuing education and external project manager, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region. The award was presented during the YWCA’s 12th Women of Achievement Awards luncheon at SVSU on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Brasseur has been with SVSU for more than 29 years, where she has demonstrated excellence in program management, community engagement and event coordination.

Danilo Sirias, professor of management, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from TOCICO, the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization, in recognition of significant contributions to advance the theory of constraints body of knowledge.

TOCICO is a global not-for-profit certification organization for companies, practitioners, consultants and academics to develop and administer certification standards and facilitate the exchange of ideas and developments for the theory of constraints.

SVSU will host a screening of the documentary “Beyond Their Years,” which reflects on the athletic and social justice strides made by sports icons Herb Carnegie (hockey) and Buck O’Neil (baseball). Presented by SVSU’s Office of Diversity Programs, the film will be followed by a live panel discussion moderated by Rico Phillips, director of cultural diversity and inclusion for the Ontario Hockey League.

Members of the Saginaw Spirit hockey team will attend the screening and discussion.

The event will be held Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Malcolm Field Theatre for Performing Arts.

The iconic Spirit of Detroit sculpture created by Marshall M. Fredericks in 1958 recently received a facelift, and Megan McAdow, director of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, provided consultation support on the project.

“With these large outdoor sculptures, they’ve been overseeing an annual, what we call cyclical maintenance, just like a routine maintenance washes it off, cleans up the wax, reapplies wax, but every 15 years or so, the elements, the wax, all of that need to do a full restoration,” McAdow said.

As part of the restoration process, the green patina was entirely removed, revealing the bare metal. The patina was then restored through the painstaking application of chemicals. A wax sealant will help preserve the new patina.

The campus community is invited to attend the SVSU Board of Control meeting on Monday, Oct. 28. The meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. in Founders Hall. If you cannot attend in person, you can watch the meeting online.

SVSU Athletics will host its annual “Trunk-or-Treat” Around the Track event on Friday, October 25, 2024, from 5-7 p.m. inside Ryder Center’s O’Neill Arena. This event is free and open to the public.

Men’s basketball hosts Henry Ford College, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.

Swimming and Diving travels to Northern Michigan for competition on Friday, Oct. 25, and Saturday, Oct. 26.

Men’s soccer will host Purdue Northwest on Friday, Oct. 25, at noon and Parkside on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 3 p.m.

Women’s soccer hosts Parkside at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, and Davenport on Sunday, Oct. 27, at noon.

Volleyball hosts Purdue Northwest on Friday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. and Parkside on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m.

Cross Country will compete in the GLIAC championship at Ferris State University on Saturday, Oct. 26.

Football plays at Wayne State on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 1 p.m.

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