This week, children grabbed their pens and paper and headed to the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden for inspiration during the fifth annual Garden Writers Workshop. The program went on from July 9-11, with each session packed with writing activities, exploring nature and snack time.
After six years of financial advising experience, MSU law student Renwei Chung knew assisting at Investor Advocacy Clinic would be the next step in landing a job in Grand Rapids, after he graduates. Chung was one of seven MSU law students chosen to spend the fall semester away from the classroom. Instead, he will be learning what it means to investigate real cases.
For the first time in school history, an MSU student, Sophia Harvey, was presented with the 2013 Minority Medical Student Award by the American Society of Hematology, or ASH. Harvey, a second-year medical student at the College of Human Medicine expressed happiness after being chosen to receive the prestigious award.
In the wake of the July 1 student interest rate hike, which effectively doubled rates overnight from 3.4 to 6.8 percent because lawmakers were unable to find a compromise, legislatures in Washington, D.C., are scrambling for solutions. Here in Michigan, the name of the game is keeping graduates in the state, which is where State Rep. Andy Schor’s Student Loan Tax Credit Bill, HB 4182, comes into play.
The search for missing Katherine Phillips, or “Baby Kate,” continues as MSU faculty, law enforcement and experts work together to narrow down the location of the four-month-old infant’s final resting place. During a recent weekend search, over 80 volunteers gathered plant and moss specimen in hopes of finding the plant fragments that were found on the suspect’s shoes before she went missing two years ago.
Diabetic patients often report difficulty in losing weight even though they follow a strict exercise regimen, but according to a recent study, they still are bettering their health, with or without weight loss. A study conducted by scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School and the University of Copenhagen concluded regardless of weight loss, exercise does have a positive impact on fat stored in the body.
MSU fans and alumni, a rabid collective of green and white-clad supporters often bordering on zealotry, express their school spirit through purchasing everything from apparel to seat cushions, and license plates are no exception.
Through research conducted by MSU scholars with local elementary school students, there is direct evidence of how children can improve their math skills if trained in spatial reasoning.
The face of Spartan Country continues to evolve as summer construction advances. With majority of students gone, summer has proven to be the ideal time to reinvent various locations on campus.
After remaining on MSU’s to-do list since 2008, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, is getting closer to a ground-breaking movement. Last Thursday, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations approved an energy and water appropriation bill that would fully fund the creation of the facility with $55 million. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations also approved the budget request last week.
After graduating from high school with a class of less than 200 students, incoming freshman Paige Brown is worried. She’s heard about the large lectures most of MSU’s core classes include, and after years of instant gratification the second help is needed, she’s not sure how she will adjust.
After serving as MSU’s provost since 2005, Kim Wilcox officially has stepped down from the position as of Monday, the end of MSU’s fiscal year. Wilcox announced and solidified his plan to leave the position effective on Jan. 1. While June Youatt served as acting provost in his place from January until June, she now will take over his full duties.
As members of the United States Congress lounged on exotic beaches or attempted to hack their way out of sand traps, students looking to take out federal loans now face an even deeper hole to dig themselves out of, as interest rates for student loans doubled this morning. The federally subsidized Stafford student loan interest rates rose from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent as a result of both houses failing to pass any reform or extension by the July 1 deadline.
Technology continues to improve and evolve at an incredibly fast pace, driving changes all across the world — and MSU is no exception. MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, or IPF, will be eliminating analog cable on campus starting Aug. 7 and will be more involved with interior design of buildings on campus beginning today.
Demonstration Hall normally is filled with MSU marching band members, intramural athletes and ROTC students, but this weekend it saw more than 100 Michiganians challenge themselves in the strategic game of bridge.
MSU instructor Troy Hale teamed up with MSU students to launch a weather balloon containing high definition, or HD, cameras and a global positioning system, or GPS, unit into space this weekend.
Whether they are shuffling across television screens on AMC’s popular television series “The Walking Dead” or chasing helpless victims in films such as “World War Z,” zombies have saturated popular culture, evolving into an entertainment keystone. And in an effort to strike while the brains were fresh, Glenn Stutzky, a senior clinical instructor in the school of social work, decided to teach a zombie-related class last summer, which has skyrocketed in popularity as well as receiving critical acclaim.
MSU journalism graduate Emanuele Berry won first place in this year’s Hearst National Radio Broadcast News Championship. The Hearst Foundation puts out a national competition of entries in five different journalism categories, which includes writing, television news, multimedia, photojournalism and radio news. Berry finished in second place in the initial radio news competition, which consisted of 45 entrants from students in journalism schools across the country.
“We’ve been given an ultimatum,” ASMSU President Evan Martinak said. “If you’re driving a car and someone puts a gun to your window, you don’t argue with them. … You get out of the car and you pick up the rest of the pieces later.”
There’s a different batch of students on campus this week — more than 1,000 of them. Their ages range from about 8 to 80-plus, and they parade from each class smiling ear to ear.