After President Barack Obama proposed a plan Wednesday night in his State of Union Address to cap student loan payments, members of the MSU community expressed mixed emotions toward the plan. Obama’s plan would cut loan payments to 10 percent of a borrower’s income after graduation and forgive student loan debt after 20 years.
The inboxes of university administrators could soon be filled with thousands of e-mails containing one sentence, “Please keep MSU’s Deaf Education Program for our deaf children who use ASL in Michigan.”
Campus Living Services will hold an event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday for students to learn more about the campus dorm neighborhoods.
Although the number of freshman business majors might be decreasing across the country, the demand for business education at MSU is increasing, school officials said.
The founder of Doctors United for Haiti, Sidney Coupet, will speak at noon on Friday at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Room E4 of Fee Hall.
The Kellogg Center is slated to hold the Choices Conference on March 10 and 11.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm calls it the green economy. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon calls it bioeconomy. David Skole calls it the future.
As MSU seeks to update its academic governance bylaws, ASMSU officials are expressing concern about potential changes that could limit student input in the governance process.
MSU football players B.J. Cunningham and Mark Dell pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault and battery stemming from a Nov. 22, 2009, fight in Rather Hall, according to court records. A single charge of conspiracy to commit assault and battery was dropped for both players as part of the plea deal.
Corn is about to get some competition in the biofuel industry. A team of professors from MSU’s Department of Entomology examined several biofuel crops to see how many beneficial insects were attracted to the plants and found several other potential biofuel crop candidates.
MSU’s University Activities Board will host an open mic night in the main lounge of the Union.
Conversational English classes will be available for $15 in Wells Hall on March 16 through April 22. Six levels of classes, taught by graduate students in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program, will be offered to accommodate all proficiency levels.
Megan Donahue is taking her sights out of East Lansing and setting them 219 million years away. The MSU professor of physics and astronomy is part of a team of researchers from across the globe keeping an eye on an unusual, two-pronged, star-creating tail of gas first discovered three years ago.
A new exhibit in the MSU Museum took flight this week to coincide with the museum’s Darwin Discovery Day. The exhibit, called Avelution, focuses on birds highlighted by famed biologist Charles Darwin in his theories on evolution. The museum will host its Darwin Discovery Day from 1-5 p.m. Feb. 14.
After about six years of review by a university committee, revisions to what has been referred to as the bill of rights for MSU students made it to the next step of implementation Tuesday after it was approved unanimously by Academic Council members.
Academic dispute cases eventually could be handled by a new board of representatives from across the university if a set of proposed changes to MSU’s student rights document moves forward today.
After a year’s worth of setbacks, MSU officials are moving forward with construction of the multimillion-dollar Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, despite not having all the funds raised for the project.
When Steven Wildman first met James Quello 10 years ago, he expected to find an elderly man. What Wildman found instead was an energetic 85-year-old who “treated everyone as if they were the most important person in the world,” he said.
On the way to lunch in the International Center on Monday, comparative cultures and politics sophomore Scott Osdras made a brief stop in Antarctica. At least, that is how it will look on an online postcard that Osdras sent to his parents during the first of a five-day event hosted by the Office of Study Abroad. MSU’s first Study Abroad Week is replacing the spring study abroad fair and will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Friday.
Students planning for the future now can use an online tool that might make their lives a little easier.