“I wanted to learn how to make gelato,” Beecroft said. “This is what we’re going to do table-side next time we entertain. It’s fun. It’s something different.”
By Casey Hollandcholland@statenews.comTHE STATE NEWSnnA new dean for the College of Communication Arts and Sciences will be recommended to the Board of Trustees, according to a release sent out by Provost June Youatt.Youatt plans to recommend Prabu David for the position.
The week-long event allows young people from all over Michigan involved in 4-H and Future Farmers of America chapters to compete and showcase their knowledge in the many facets of the dairy industry through a series of contests and shows.
The gift will be used over time to support and empower LGBT students to succeed, provide programs, education and support to LGBT students, take actions for the LGBT community's benefit and assist LGBT students in building self-esteem and promoting respect throughout the campus and community.
Rows of tractors and trailers filled the Ag Expo grounds on the first day of the show on Tuesday.
MSU has announced Jemele Hill from ESPN as the grand marshal for the homecoming parade this fall.
MSU Bikes Service Center Manager Tim Potter said although the university efforts are helpful, the key to preventing accidents is for all bikers to know and display basic bike safety. The most common mistake bikers make is riding their bike on the sidewalk.
In a world filled with perpetual change, sustainability can be a necessity.Sustainability served as a major theme in a Container Gardening Workshop held Saturday at co-op house Vesta. The workshop, created by AmeriCorps and the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council cooperatively with the MSU Student Housing Co-op, or SHC, highlighted the idea of sustainable living through the use of growing food planted in upcycled, or re-used, containers.
By Casey Hollandcholland@statenews.comTHE STATE NEWSnnFor the past three years, the philosophy department has been compiling data from their senior Capstone courses.
Students and faculty in the group wanted to stay in the country despite ongoing hostilities.
In summer, campus is like a ghost town. Many students go off to internships, study abroad or go home, if they don't live close to campus.For international students, going home is not always ideal. Some see working and attending summer classes as beneficial, while others use the time to explore outside of Michigan.
“This is a program where we are going in as a recent college graduate, talking to these students and making their dreams of going to college realistic,” adviser Lorrena Johnson said.
As a result of its 50th birthday celebration in February, the Abrams Planetarium will be receiving an upgrade. Its 20-year-old DigiStar 2 projection system will be replaced by a DigiStar 5, a two-projector system with clearer images creating a more accurate representation of the night sky.
The suspects took a cell phone and pizza from the victims and fled north on foot. The victims were not injured and were able to call 911.
Pivarnik said the data shows the correlation between purchasing a membership, GPA and retention. MSU isn’t only interested in the GPAs of the student body, retention — students completing a degree — is important, too. The study did not address whether or not participants actively used the gym membership.
“It was decided (to remodel the house) a couple years ago,” Nemesi said. “We were coming up on the 50th anniversary of the house, it was built in 1963, and we started talking about the fundraising and all that type of stuff, and figured if we remodeled it right, it would be able to go the next 50 years.”
President of Move In, Move Out (also known as MIMO) Kevin Ye said in the summer of 2013 he was approached by a student at Northwestern University in Illinois looking to expand the organization to schools in Michigan.
The MSU College of Music holds five consecutive carillon recitals on Wednesdays through July beginning at 6 p.m. at the John W. Beaumont Memorial Tower.
Every month there are 600,000 attempted network intrusions on MSU’s network. That is not to say there are hundreds of thousands of people attempting to commit cyber crimes. Many of these attempts are automated and MSU’s network security is able to shut out the majority of them with antivirus software and IT support.
Two suspects appeared in court Tuesday in connection with the false bomb threats to Spartan Stadium, which occurred Wednesday.