The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams , or FRIB, has been approved to receive $100 million of federal funding on Tuesday by the Michigan Strategic Fund board.
Spring break is approaching and with it, hundreds of students decide to vacation in different places around the world.
President Lou Anna K. Simon tried to play down information surrounding the federal investigation into Title IX sexual assault and violence complaints against the university Monday, calling the investigation "a review" and saying she looks forward to working with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, or OCR.During the Academic Governance meeting on Tuesday, Simon said the investigation merely was a "review" of university practices by the federal government.
To empower men and women to fight back against sexual assault, the James Madison Student Senate hosted a self-defense class on Tuesday.One in four women are sexually assaulted on campuses nationwide
The U.S. Department of Education revealed Monday it is investigating complaints about MSU’s handling of sexual assault accusations, a fact that university officials successfully kept quiet until now.
Thousands of students received a university alert Monday afternoon warning them of a man with a gun who allegedly was seen walking to Bessey Hall. Soon after, another alert was sent informing students that the original text was a false alarm and no real threat was evident. MSU police said on its Facebook page that a Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet in plainclothes had a replica rifle in hand when walking through Bessey Hall’s parking lot.
In light of a recent slew of robberies at Hubbard Hall, university officials are encouraging students to ensure they are locking their doors.
MSU’s International Volunteer Action Corps, or IVAC, which first launched in 2006, is currently being “re-engineered” to include new members and keep the activities.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, passed a bill that would recommend change to current course retake policy, allowing students the ability to retake whichever courses they want, no matter the grade.
A $9 million grant will give a boost to MSU’s public health program in Flint, Mich., allowing the College of Human Medicine to place seven to nine full-time faculty members in the area.
After a hectic week of scouring for internships and interviewing with employers, some engineering students relaxed by creating intricate machines that completed simple tasks in a complex way.
Four Spartans placed fifth in the Makeathon competition, where they had to make a marketable prototype in only 24 hours.
University officials publicly announced new initiatives meant to heighten awareness of student safety, particularly in terms of sexual violence and sexual assault, in a statement emailed to the MSU community Friday. In the statement, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives Director Paulette Granberry Russell said despite current university efforts in place to protect student safety, “there is more that we can do to educate the MSU community on sexual violence.”
Fifteen Spartans will be competing on Wolverine territory on Friday to design and create marketable products as part of the first ever collegiate Makeathon at the University of Michigan.
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For those curious about the processes that results in the alcohol in their can or bottle, there is a club for that.
It happened at Purdue. It happened at Ferris State. And on Jan. 31, it happened here. ? The past two months have been tumultuous for MSU. Reports of shootings at other Big Ten and state universities, particularly even a shooting death near MSU’s own campus, have shaken the student body and left MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon with one grim reminder: No one is immune to violence.
A student group is campaigning for MSU to take further action in protecting the human rights of sweatshop laborers who could be facing inhumane conditions. In an effort to rally students into pressuring administrators for a policy change, the MSU chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops hosted a Bangladeshi garment worker, who shared her story of surviving a factory collapse that claimed more than 1,100 lives.
MSU’s Council of Graduate Students will soon say goodbye to its four-term president, Stefan Fletcher, and elect a new leader in his place.
The Residence Hall Association, or RHA, elected its new president during its meeting on Wednesday night.