Amanda Wenzel thought she had her housing situation for the 2012-13 school year figured out last fall. Wenzel, a special education sophomore, planned to live on campus with a friend started to fall apart in February when her future roommate backed out of their housing contract, and she’s tried to piece together her living situation ever since.
The MSU Formula Racing Team completed the year with a sixth-place finish at the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers’ 2012 FSAE-West competition.
Doris Parks loved old books. More than anything, she loved searching for books. There was rarely a dusty, ornamented hardback she couldn’t find for an MSU student or professor in need.
Through the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U, MSU and Greater Lansing are on track to having a one-gigabit-per-second Internet connection available to all students and community members. The local Gig.U initiative is part of the national University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, working to connect communities around universities with the students and school. The project was first introduced in February by the Greater Lansing Gig.U coalition, which includes the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the Prima Civitas Foundation, or PCF, 325 E.
Tuesday morning, Campus Archeologist and graduate student Katy Meyers shoveled the West Circle construction site, searching for clues about a discovered wall belonging to a structure lost in time. A week earlier, MSU Physical Plant Geographic Information Systems analyst Nick Voss found a wall below the ground next to Morrill Hall, and archeologists were called to check the scene.
When Faramarz Vafaee heard his friend was leaving to go back to Iran to visit his ailing mother, he never thought his friend wouldn’t be able to make it back to MSU. After spending more than two years at MSU working on his doctorate in mechanical engineering, Saleh Rezaei Ravesh was denied re-entrance into the U.S. But his friends at MSU are fighting back.
Brody Square has found a way to put some of its food waste to good use. With renovations taking place in Brody Complex Neighborhood, food waste from Brody Square has been turned into compost used in a new hoop house, a rounded greenhouse where plants are grown in the ground, that’s being built on the south side of Bailey Hall.
A recent study from the MSU School of Packaging shows that consumers are more likely to purchase packages that have a long shelf life, are easy to open and are made from bio-based products. Georgios Koutsimanis, a doctoral student and graduate assistant, said the report asked people around the country what type of packages they would be inclined to purchase. “We couldn’t find anything like it,” Koutsimanis said.
Hope has officially been lost for alumni who wish to keep their @msu.edu email account. MSU has stopped looking into alternatives to completely deleting email accounts for alumni who have not registered for classes in over two years, university spokesman Kent Cassella said in an email Monday.
Student employment steadily increases by about 500 to 1,000 students each academic year, according to a recent report done by Anna Barner, student employment coordinator in the MSU Human Resources Department. “It’s a trend we see every year,” Barner said. “Fall semester is one of our busiest times.”
The Mid-Michigan Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure awarded MSU a $45,438 grant to help women who can’t afford to be checked for breast cancer.
Greg Ballein, born and raised in East Lansing, has been at the Student Book Store, 421 E. Grand River Ave., since he was a teenager working for his father. About 30 years later, he still is at the business, but as an owner and manager, and said he has noticed his business is slower this summer than in the past.
Graduate students Sara Jablonski and Mukesh Ray laugh and talk while sitting under the shade of a tree outside of IM Sports-West on Sunday July 8, 2012 afternoon. Jablonski, from Buffalo, N.Y., and Ray, an international student from India, met at MSU this summer and have been dating for about a month.
When Zuleikha Zadran came to the U.S. at the age of 13, it was the war in Afghanistan that pushed her family to leave. But now, as an American citizen and recent MSU graduate, she feels love for both countries.
MSU is one of five schools taking part in a study beginning this fall that will test the security of football stadiums. The program will test the security measures of all aspects of the stadium, including parking, concessions, merchandising and ticketing.
In 40 years, a lot of things have changed at MSU. One thing that hasn’t is how Joe Darden feels about his job — he still enjoys it. Happy MSU employees, such as Darden, are just one of the reasons MSU made Business Research Guide’s first annual Top 10 Best Colleges and Universities to Work For list.
Lindsay Silber is both nervous and excited. As a recent graduate from MSU’s College of Education, she soon will be completing her postgraduate internship through MSU before she is recommended for her provisional teacher certification. She hopes to eventually receive a professional certification — a possibility that has grown more likely with new changes to the teacher certification requirements in Michigan.
Packaging senior Levi Keepers prefers the MSU Dairy Store to other ice cream stores in East Lansing. He likes the accessibility on campus and the fact that its ice cream and cheese are made by MSU. And if all goes well, Keepers will be able to enjoy MSU dairy products knowing it wasn’t just made at MSU — it comes from MSU cows.
Sara Swanton, of Saginaw, Mich. swims laps at the IM Sports-West outdoor pool on Sunday. With summer temperatures rising, more people are coming to the pool to cool off and get some exercise.
Richard Patterson is staying in the dorms for the first time, but his experience is unlike many others’ because he is with his grandchildren and wife. Back when Patterson was a student at MSU in 1962, he lived off campus, but this week, he got a taste of what life is like for new MSU students.