In summer, campus is like a ghost town. Many students go off to internships, study abroad or go home, if they don't live close to campus.For international students, going home is not always ideal. Some see working and attending summer classes as beneficial, while others use the time to explore outside of Michigan.
“This is a program where we are going in as a recent college graduate, talking to these students and making their dreams of going to college realistic,” adviser Lorrena Johnson said.
As a result of its 50th birthday celebration in February, the Abrams Planetarium will be receiving an upgrade. Its 20-year-old DigiStar 2 projection system will be replaced by a DigiStar 5, a two-projector system with clearer images creating a more accurate representation of the night sky.
The suspects took a cell phone and pizza from the victims and fled north on foot. The victims were not injured and were able to call 911.
Pivarnik said the data shows the correlation between purchasing a membership, GPA and retention. MSU isn’t only interested in the GPAs of the student body, retention — students completing a degree — is important, too. The study did not address whether or not participants actively used the gym membership.
“It was decided (to remodel the house) a couple years ago,” Nemesi said. “We were coming up on the 50th anniversary of the house, it was built in 1963, and we started talking about the fundraising and all that type of stuff, and figured if we remodeled it right, it would be able to go the next 50 years.”
Applying for local jobs a couple of months prior to the start of the school year is usually the best bet for getting hired, many employers said.
President of Move In, Move Out (also known as MIMO) Kevin Ye said in the summer of 2013 he was approached by a student at Northwestern University in Illinois looking to expand the organization to schools in Michigan.
The MSU College of Music holds five consecutive carillon recitals on Wednesdays through July beginning at 6 p.m. at the John W. Beaumont Memorial Tower.
Every month there are 600,000 attempted network intrusions on MSU’s network. That is not to say there are hundreds of thousands of people attempting to commit cyber crimes. Many of these attempts are automated and MSU’s network security is able to shut out the majority of them with antivirus software and IT support.
Two suspects appeared in court Tuesday in connection with the false bomb threats to Spartan Stadium, which occurred Wednesday.
Joanna Young, the candidate for the new vice president of information technology and chief information officer, is awaiting approval by the MSU Board of Trustees.
Between June 5 and June 20 a 20-year-old student was victim to an email scam, robbing her of $1,536 via Western Union money transfer transactions. The correspondence turned out to be a phishing scam.
Despite a bomb threat to Spartan Stadium in the heart of campus, MSU safety officials said an alert was not necessary, and opted not to issue one.
Two Lansing residents have been charged in falsely reporting a bomb threat to Spartan Stadium.
The students, divided into teams of two or three, crafted various games and activities designed to encourage minds to think computationally, to notice patterns and to develop their own ideas about how to create.
Even though things around MSU are expected to be fairly quiet, Murphy said the department will still keep an eye out for a few things, including drunk driving, disorderly conduct and loud parties.
MSU occupies the 11th highest spot, right behind four other Big Ten schools in data collected from about 1,570 public and private nonprofit universities.
Packing for, preparing for and financing a study abroad program can be difficult, but for most students the hardest aspect of studying abroad comes at the end of the trip — returning home.
Beginning next fall, aspiring software designers and programmers will have an opportunity to take online courses meant to help prepare them for entry-level jobs with AT&T.