State Sen. Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, officially established his campaign to run for governor Monday. George, who represents Michigan’s 20th district, was elected to the state Senate in 2002 after serving a term with the state House of Representatives.
Incidents of whooping cough in Michigan more than doubled during the second half of 2008. There were 210 reported cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, from July through December, up from 92 cases in the first half of the year.
Its ideal location on Michigan Avenue between Grand River and Harrison avenues makes it a popular spot for students, but the quiet, old-style neighborhood of Louis Street and Michigan Avenue will have a new look in coming years.
If Jim Caudy has any reason to be positive about the potential he could lose his job, it’s that he’s already started weighing his options. “I’ll probably be laid off fairly soon,” said Caudy, an MSU alumnus and electrician in General Motors Corp.’s Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant.
Recognizing facial expressions, posture, speech patterns and interacting with others are some things most people do every day without even thinking. But for a person with autism, these everyday actions are incredibly frustrating, and occasionally impossible.
Monster.com is alerting job hunters of a hack-in that involved the theft of personal information, the Web site announced Friday — raising concerns for widespread identity fraud.
A string of music artists coming to campus continued Monday when the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, announced Death Cab For Cutie will perform April 18 at Breslin Center.
Prenursing sophomore Jen Ung was surprised by the suspicious man who knocked on her door Wednesday afternoon in Abbot Hall asking for donations to his church. “He had one tooth and just looked really sketchy,” Ung said. “He gave this whole speech about his church that he was raising money for. … It kind of sounded like a scam.”
Although information technology jobs have become synonymous with outsourcing, MSU and IBM reversed that trend two weeks ago when the computer company announced an agreement to establish a programming center on campus.
Changing the name of his coffee franchise from a potentially offensive moniker to one simply referring to the big “B” on the shop’s paper cups wasn’t a problem for Biggby Coffee founder and CEO Bob Fish.
The trial for the man charged with the assault of a female student last fall begins today at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse, 313 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
The long march toward updating a set of bylaws that could change the structure of Academic Governance continued last week as Faculty Council began sifting through related documents.
With more than $100,000 left over from last semester’s budget, the MSU Residence Halls Association hopes to present more concerts and improve existing programs. The surplus, which is not uncommon, was due to some projects falling through, RHA President Mark Dobson said.
When three college students gathered Thursday outside the office of Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., they were hoping to speak with Levin about his support of Israel. Instead, they were arrested.
Dozens of pages with hastily scribbled notes are crammed into a leather-covered binder on a table in Nancy Cotter’s house. Inside are records of every phone call, every inquiry, every plea she has made to answer the question that has devastated her for more than a year: How did her daughter, Rylan, die on Jan. 7, 2008?
Two recent studies by MSU researches could advance the biofuels industry. Chemical engineering and materials science professor Bruce Dale and his team of researchers found evidence against previous arguments that producing biofuels creates more greenhouse gas than it offsets.
By working with community groups and cracking down on traffic violations, MSU police earned the 2008 Excellence in Traffic Safety Award from the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, or MACP.
Star-crossed sea lampreys might soon have a serious case of heartbreak. Researchers Weiming Li and Nicholas Johnson and their team have found a way to synthesize the pheromone, or chemical, that attracts female lampreys to male lampreys. They hope to use it to lure the females into traps to help control the lamprey population, Johnson said.
Two sexual assaults in two days are causing concern among law enforcement officers and students as police search for suspects in the crimes. After a student reported being sexually assaulted Tuesday afternoon while walking along Hagadorn Road near Hubbard Hall, another assault was reported to MSU police Wednesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
An important part of Rosetta Sloan’s diet has disappeared from MSU cafeterias. Sloan, who avoids eating meat when possible, is searching for other sources of protein this week after the university pulled peanut butter products in precaution of a nationwide salmonella outbreak.