MSU is hosting 4-H Exploration Days this week, which will allow for 2,003 registered youth participants representing 80 of Michigan’s 83 counties to experience college while attending sessions of topics ranging from field hockey to animal science.
Two dairy judging teams from MSU were honored for placing in the College Division category at the Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging contest.
After his son’s death in 2001, John Hogg made a promise to himself to climb the highest point in every state.
A new job posting feature, NACElink Network, is now available through MySpartanCareer, according to the Career Services Network.
As MSU is venturing overseas with the opening of the MSU Dubai in the fall, the university is making adjustments that are needed to fit into a different set of cultural values — values Muslim Students’ Association members understand well.
David McKinley’s research in forensic science helped him dig up bullets and gloves at a crime scene Wednesday — and he’s only 11 years old.
Being a role model is one of the most important parts of being a resident mentor. The Department of Residence Life makes sure its resident mentors are held to the highest standard, both in the halls and on the World Wide Web.
A visiting MSU research associate from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center faces a court hearing at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Hamtramck 31st District Court and possible deportation after allegedly planning a sexual meeting online with whom he believed was a teenage girl, according to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.
The MSU police K-9 units worked on tracking scents as part of a bimonthly routine training program Tuesday.
They can be a useful way to take and organize notes, or they can be a distraction used to surf the Internet, but many professors are split on how to deal with laptops in the classroom.
Members of Climb for Hope, including two MSU graduates, left for Tanzania Sunday to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, as a way to raise money to find a viable treatment for breast cancer by 2009.
Lauren Walters, a music education junior, said she still hasn’t been billed for the hole her roommate put in the ceiling of her Gilchrist Hall dorm room. Other MSU students haven’t been as lucky.
Although tree climbing could be thought of as an ordinary summer activity for some, high school students will be reaching for the highest limbs as a way to learn about German culture. After all, the world champion tree climber is German.
The first time he was on a sailboat, Alex Clark said he was 2 months old. Now, he and his brother, Tim Clark, a 2007 MSU graduate, have carried on the family tradition, teaching classes at the MSU Sailing Center, as their father did before them.
Even as the MSU Board of Trustees approved a 6.8 percent increase in tuition for in-state undergraduate students, much of the meeting’s talk Friday centered around trying to reduce costs.
Those within the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences are mourning the death of a man who led the way in the journalism field.
The Board of Trustees voted to increase tuition for the 2008-09 school year by 6.8 percent for in-state undergraduate students at their meeting Friday.
MSU’s minority enrollment was down slightly in 2007, but the minority graduation rate rose to 61.8 percent, its highest in the last 10 years, according to a report to be presented to the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday.
Eric Winter was a 12-year-old boy who always wanted to go to summer camp — but since he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a baby, he never got the chance before his unexpected death in 2003.
The Michigan House of Representatives approved funding for the MSU Wednesday, allocating $298.2 million for the 2008-09 fiscal year — a 2.8 percent increase from the 2007-2008 fiscal year.