As the popular Fox reality competition “American Idol” enters its eighth season, the University Activities Board is preparing for its seventh year of Spartan Idol — the MSU version of the show.
Thursday’s MSU Housing Fair helped many students find next year’s living situations during this hectic season of house hunting.
Rebecca Jacobsen knew how to teach before she picked up her first course book. Jacobsen, an assistant professor of teacher education, grew up around teachers and knew what it meant to teach well.
After leaving their WRA class Thursday afternoon, freshmen Nick Lebel and Eric Sneller decided to smash nuclei and create some rare isotopes.
Increased applications to MSU’s graduate and MBA programs follow a national trend that shows students tend to seek shelter in an unpredictable economy.
A former Spartan is still going green more than 20 years after he graduated from MSU. Dan Dinelli, a third-generation golf course superintendent, has been selected to receive the 2009 President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
Two proposals awaiting final approval could affect how much time students spend on a minor program at MSU. Faculty Council approved a proposal during its meeting Tuesday clarifying the type of credit and how much course work must be specific to the minor program. The council also decided students can only earn a minor in a field other than their major.
MSU’s Housing Fair will showcase on- and off-campus housing available to students for the 2009-10 school year.
Radiology Department Chairman James Potchen will give a presentation at 7 p.m. today at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Students can help save lives from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in 191 Communication Arts and Sciences Building, where the MSU health communication program is sponsoring a bone marrow registration drive.
For many people, Columbus Day is a time to celebrate the discovery of America. For Native Americans, the day is a time to remember the lives that were lost after America was founded.
As a freshman, Nicole Goldman discovered undergraduate research as a way to build on the material she learned in class.
The number of students who drive after drinking is at an almost eight-year low, according to a report released by Olin Health Center. In 2000, 61 percent of those surveyed said they didn’t drive after consuming any alcohol. That number has increased to 76 percent in the 2008 survey.
Two musicians with MSU ties joined the Lansing Symphony Orchestra on Saturday to perform a saxophone concerto at Wharton Center. David Maslanka, who received his master’s and doctoral degrees for music theory and composition from MSU in 1970, originally wrote “Concerto for Alto Saxophone” for the saxophone and wind ensemble in 1999.
A change in the type of graduate certificate programs offered at MSU could mean more students earning certificates.
More people were arrested for larcenies on MSU’s campus in 2007 than in the previous two years, but violent robberies stayed about the same, according to the MSU police 2007 annual crime report.
Mike Mosallam loves the challenge of making others laugh. “It’s much harder to make someone laugh than to make them cry,” said Mosallam, who lives in Dearborn.
It was a sunny day in Lebanon in 1999 when Raed Mokaled and his wife took their two sons to the park to celebrate 5-year-old Ahmad’s birthday. While Ahmad was playing, an explosion tore through the air. Ahmad died hours later in the hospital. He is one of thousands of people, many of them children, killed or maimed by leftover cluster munitions.
Best-selling author Rebecca Walker will give a speech at 7 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center Auditorium entitled “What Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have to Teach Us about Race, Class and Gender in America.”
The MSU College of Engineering is set to receive a $75,000 from the Motorola Foundation to help support a program to expose middle- and high-school students and faculty to new engineering concepts.