With an increase in the use of road salt this winter, Michigan environmental agencies are uneasy about the effects of its runoff. “The concern is that it can run off into nearby waterways and affect animal life and plant life,” said Robert McCann, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
The U.S. presidential election is an international affair. With the primary season coming to a close, many MSU faculty and students agree the world is focused on the race.
Although some students choose to don bathing suits and relax on the beach during spring break, others are exchanging swimwear for shovels and paint brushes. Fifty-one congregates from Martin Luther Chapel will leave for mission trips to one of four sites today and Saturday: El Paso, Texas, Phoenix, Haiti and Nicaragua.
MSU is expected to issue a report to Congress today detailing MSU’s use of its $1.2 billion endowment, MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said.
Students will decide if two organizations join ASMSU’s Programming Board during this spring’s student referendum.
Just what do the College of Engineering’s program fees pay for? That was the question Art Covert and a group of other graduate students from both the Graduate Employees Union, or GEU, and the Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Association asked. The answer they discovered, they didn’t like.
As drug-resistant tuberculosis cases soar to record levels in parts of Asia, local health care experts said there’s a slight cause for concern in Michigan.
The sound of friends cracking cans open and the thump of ping-pong balls hitting party cups echoed off the dorm room walls when journalism sophomore Dan Schmidt heard a knock on the door.
March will mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Since it began, thousands of lives have been affected by the war, including the lives of Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi political analyst, and Patricia McCann, a U.S. veteran of the Iraq war.
A multicolored American Eagle wallet containing several credit cards and forms of ID as well as a black T-Mobile Motorola cell phone were reported stolen from a Bryan Hall dorm room sometime between 2 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is, in his own words, a “Hitler of the time.” “This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their right to their resources,” Mugabe said in a 2003 speech at the state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers.
In the aftermath of two mass university shootings in the past year, the responsibility of identifying and treating troubled campus residents falls to MSU residence halls and Counseling Center staff.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing announced Bishop Earl Boyea as Rev. Carl Mengeling’s successor Wednesday at St. Mary Cathedral, 219 Seymour Ave., in Lansing.
Angelique Day said she never imagined that the 18 months she spent in foster care would make her an asset to the child welfare system. But they have. Day, a social work researcher, said she was embarrassed of her foster care history when she began her journey as an MSU student.
Tapping her index finger on the table, 13-year-old Lexie Edwards followed along as two MSU students read from Dr. Seuss’ “Horton Hears a Who!” Across the room, two students flipped through a car magazine, asking a boy with autism to pick out his favorite.
Alexandra Gade, an assistant professor at MSU, was drawn to the university because of its rare premier isotope laboratory, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
MSU police have identified the two local bars visited by a woman who reported she was drugged and sexually assaulted by an acquaintance early Sunday morning.
MSU students and faculty members who park in the Commuter Lot might need to find a different route for the 15 months after they return from spring break.
About half of the 2,000 people in the area home to Cedar Village apartments could be displaced during the first phase of a redevelopment project slated to begin in 2009.
Diane Ebert-May thinks all students at MSU should be scientifically literate. That’s why the plant biology professor, along with a team of faculty, began research to determine the impact of general science education courses on students’ quantitative and scientific reasoning skills.