A Michigan State University faculty panel participates in a discussion entitled, "Looking at Sports." Panelists describe their research, perspectives and conclusions around economic, cultural and scientific issues in the sports world. Issues discussed include: soccer's place within the past and present of Africa and the world; the role of sport in the lives of African Americans; risk and the prevention of injury in college and professional sports; training astronauts to use exercise and competition to overcome the effects of future missions to Mars and beyond. Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Dean of the Honors College, convenes the session and moderates questions from the audience. Part of the series "Sharper Focus/Wider Lens" sponsored by the MSU Honors College, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Education, the College of Social Science, James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, the Department of History, the Department of Kinesiology, and the Department of Philosophy.
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