For the last time until 2117, the transit of Venus will occur at approximately 5:04 p.m. today. During this rare phenomenon, Venus covers 1/32 of the sun and can be seen by the naked eye — or preferably with protective eyewear due to the sun’s damaging rays — in good conditions.
For MBA student Scott Gordon, taking risks paid off to the tune of $867,000 — if only it were real. Gordon was the winner of the first MBA Stock Market Challenge, which ended April 27, after three months of trading. Competitors were given $100,000 in virtual money and 12 weeks on the stock market through the website investopedia.com. Gordon said he did it because there was no risk. “You always want to see what you could do if you had money,” he said. Gordon said his strategy was a bit more risky than everybody else’s because he used option trading, where you have the right to buy the stock at a predetermined price at a later time, even if the price goes up. He targeted big companies like Apple and Qualcomm and invested with them if he knew they were going to have a financially productive day. With option trading, Gordon said you either win or lose, and he didn’t always win. “At some point, I was down $70,000,” he said.
Dick Beals was a Spartan through and through. When Homecoming came around, he left Hollywood behind for the autumn air of East Lansing each year.
When Miles Sutphen first became a Spartan in fall 2011, his residency in Campbell Hall was exactly what he expected it to be — cramped, with older dorms, full-service cafeterias and an array of excited students.
Bill Vincent, a professor of film studies in the department of English, will travel to New Zealand this Friday to be in a remake of the 1981 film, The Evil Dead.
Students in the College of Education might be using more than just textbooks and iClickers in their courses in the fall, with the launch of a pilot program that will bring iPads into some classrooms.
MSU students and faculty have been busy earning awards, receiving appointments to new positions and co-authoring reports this year.
Bright sun beating down and 92 degrees of heat can make for a beautiful day on a beautiful campus this Memorial Day. And although the student population on campus dwindles in the summer, the population of students who stay for Memorial Day can be miniscule in comparison — and that’s just how the students who stay like it.
On her visit from China, Aobing Chang said her upcoming quick stops at Harvard University and MIT are nothing compared to the tour of MSU she began more than a week ago.
With only eight weeks left in Macomb Community College’s nursing program, Jennifer Woodman wishes she was just a few years younger so she could have the opportunity to dually enroll at MSU and work on her associate degree and Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the same time.
The typical competitiveness amongst MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University will be set aside today in the name of research — at least until winners are chosen.
When Frank Loomis walks out onto the football field this fall he no longer will march with the trumpet section, but will stride out in front to lead the MSU Spartan Marching Band and perform MSU’s traditional backbend.
There is a place for animals in the heart of animal science senior Emily Henderson.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, or NSCL, will be part of a national organization to commercialize research from the labs, after MSU joined the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, or FLC, a national network of federal labs last week.
Catherine Woteki, chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, visited MSU and toured the new Molecular Plant Sciences Building on Tuesday morning.
Local businesses took advantage of the throngs of people that invaded the downtown area for the East Lansing Art Festival, seeing an increase in commerce this weekend.
MSU’s campus can seem empty over the summer due to more than 22,000 students missing from daily life.
Out of a field of more than 1,100 applicants, two MSU students, along with 280 other recipients from across the country, were awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
MSU lacrosse attacker Mac Ensley had a thrill last week when one of his goals made it on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
When Barb Michaels’ nephew Danny Arksey was killed in an accident six years ago, she was not ready to let him go.