Elise Harvey shows participants how to fold paper cranes at an MSU Museum event to commemorate 9/11 victims on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. [Chen Xia/China.org.cn]

Michigan State University is hosting several events in September to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

One of the United States's "public Ivy" universities, MSU Museum hosted an origami event on Sunday, where participants folded paper cranes.

A total of 1,000 origami paper cranes were expected to be made and then sent to the 9/11 Tribute Centers in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., to give visitors support and good will, said Cathy Huddy, the museum's education programs coordinator.

Titled "Folding Together for Hope and Peace,"the origami event attracted many MSU students from the United States and overseas. "We come here to see if there is anything we can help,"said Shohei Ueno, a Japanese student in MSU's College of Natural Sciences. Ueno and his classmate Eitaro Ueda both volunteered to instruct people how to fold paper cranes.

On Wednesday, MSU will hold a symposium titled "10 Years after 9/11: Reflections and Analyses,"with several distinguished scholars to explain the impacts the 9/11 attacks had domestically and internationally.