At Tuesday afternoon’s Steering Committee meeting, members discussed procedures to select the new university provost and the implementation of a student name policy. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon also expressed concern about St. Patrick’s Day drinking.
A victory was earned for MSU on Saturday when TempoRun creators brought home the title of Student Startup Madness, or SSM, 2012-13 National Champion and bragging rights for holding the SSM Rocket Trophy.
Although Xin Zhao is more than 11,000 miles away from his home in Shenzhen, China, the marketing freshman said he feels right at home living at MSU.
Although many college students spend most weekends drinking and partying, some students, including Logan Matthews, choose religion instead.
Squishy, blue-green, wet, growing algae — what usually is thought of as fish food — potentially is a key to some of the energy and fuel sustainability challenges facing society. With the help of MSU researchers, algal biofuel research might be used to produce vegetable oils that can be transformed into clean transportation biofuels.
As summer vacation quickly approaches and graduation sneaks up on some anxious seniors, it is the time of year when decisions are being made and students are making plans.
Since the Union reopened at the end of the fall semester, the on-campus post office has lost more than half of its business as many students don’t realize it’s there.
The savory smell of creamy macaroni and cheese and crispy fried chicken mixed with the sounds of saxophones and booming music from DJ speakers drew students to the Hubbard Hall cafeteria for the Soul Food Extravaganza as a final farewell to 2013’s Black History Month. Outside the cafeteria Thursday night, a line of students wrapped around the staircase to the main floor.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, will be looking to raise the student tax for the fall 2013 semester to help improve evening transportation safety for students.
Microbiology senior Patrick Ropp patiently has brewed and parried his way through bottles and bouts for a months.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan is about to receive a big boost. The “Make Blue and Green Wishes Come True” campaign runs this week at University of Michigan and MSU. The fundraising competition is part of the lead up to the MSU vs. U-M basketball game this weekend.
With midterm exams and papers wrapping up before spring break, meeting with professors has become a priority for some MSU students.
For criminal justice sophomore Jake Range, ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, simply is known as the group of people who will bring Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to MSU.
While some MSU students will go on a tropical vacation during spring break, more than 200 students will spend the week volunteering in communities across the country as part of Alternative Spartan Break, or ASB.
When Evan Williams first began his journey as a vegetarian five years ago, he had dreams of McDonald’s Big Macs.
In lieu of last night’s snow storm, Leah Mohnke thought it might be smart to check local school closings to determine if she would need to wake up at 6 a.m.
The cost for Yue Yuan to come to college in the U.S. has increased ever since her sister and cousin came to the U.S. for college, but her parents knew the value of an education at MSU could result in a better life.
Vice president nominations and an advance screening were the topics covered at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly meeting Wednesday night.
As of about 5 a.m. this morning, Internet is back on with no interruptions across the state after last night’s difficulties. Just before midnight Tuesday evening, all of Merit Network’s Internet users had difficulty connecting to the Internet as a result of an issue with a router at a Merit facility in Chicago.
After absentmindedly missing an exam in his online TC 201 class, Jacob Shutty is re-evaluating his summer academic plans. The media and information freshman is one of many students who are considering taking a summer class — a move becoming more common among MSU students, according to the Office of the Registrar. According to the office, throughout the past 10 years, total summer class enrollments have increased steadily, reaching 48,695 total enrollments in summer 2012 — an increase of 2.5 percent from summer 2011.