The vacant lots and abandoned houses of Detroit’s urban landscape could turn into green pastures soon. MSU started a partnership with the Greening of Detroit, a Detroit-based nonprofit organization aimed at encouraging environmental awareness in Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Garden and the Detroit Agriculture Network to create the Garden Resource Program Collaborative.
In the basement of the Engineering Building is a series of doors, behind which lie robots that climb walls, detect breast cancer tumors and test protective clothing worn by soldiers.
After months of searching, MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business will have a chance to break new ground if Stefanie Lenway is approved as the new dean. Lenway, currently the dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, College of Business Administration, would be the first female dean in the history of MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
President Barack Obama requested $10 million in his proposed 2011 budget to fund MSU’s future Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. University officials said the project is progressing as expected.
MSU Community Programs is hosting a clothing drive until Feb. 22. MSU Community Programs is part of the Student Alumni Foundation.
Terry Root, a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, is scheduled to discuss climate change and its effect on Michigan species from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Union, Parlors A and B.
The future of alternative fuels and economic freedom might be as simple as grass clippings and wood chips. Biomass such as straw, switchgrass and wood chips can be used to produce cellulosic ethanol, a potential replacement to ethanol produced from corn, wheat and rice, said Bruce Dale, associate director of MSU’s Office of Biobased Technologies.
Shauna Sly is not a registered organ donor, but the special education and deaf education sophomore said that could change. A team of MSU researchers are turning to social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, to attract more student organ donors.
Symone Ayers lost five family members to cancer and cites her grandmother, a survivor, as her major source of inspiration. Kelly Knupfer lost her uncle to brain cancer and aspires to work for the American Cancer Society after graduation. Chelsea Lewis watched some of her closest friends fight cancer, and now she fights for them.
In celebration of Black History Month, MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine is sponsoring a lecture series slated to open at 5 p.m. Thursday at Kellogg Center.
To one MSU researcher, a rift between two opposing schools of thought on how to treat children with autism needs to close in the interest of advancing the field.
For the first time in MSU’s history, the State of the University address is going viral.
For the first four months back in his parents’ house, Tyler Smith didn’t unpack. Boxes filled with pictures of old high school girlfriends and pieces of clothing worn once at MSU theme parties — ugly Christmas sweaters and snow pants from Goodwill — cluttered the room.
Jumping into water filled with sharks is probably not a wish most people want to come true.
A sea of white medical jackets is lacking color. A University of Michigan study on minority students in U.S. medical schools shows the number of underrepresented minorities is low compared to their percentage of population in the U.S.
Students, faculty and residents of East Lansing will kick off their Relay for Life fundraising efforts tonight at 7 p.m. at Erickson Hall Kiva.
Jeffrey Cohen sees Mexican immigrants as an important part of America’s past, but Ruben Martinez considers them a crucial link to America’s future.
Research completed by a team of scientists, including an MSU professor, might lead to a new type of treatment in curing diabetic blindness.
The discussion about how to potentially reorganize MSU’s course scheduling could reignite today, almost three months after a university committee postponed such talks.
WKAR is set to host a community conversation from 6-8 p.m. on Feb. 9 in Lansing Community College’s Board Room.