Food industry management junior Katharine MacPherson loved Disney as she was growing up, and since then, her love hasn’t faded. “I was obsessed with movies and everything Disney as a child growing up,” MacPherson said. “It just fit perfectly with what I wanted to do with my life.”
Ever since his childhood, interdisciplinary studies in social science junior Robert Nash has had a passion for wrestling.
Neil DeSouza loves spring and the flowers it brings. But unfortunately for the international relations and comparative cultures and politics freshman, the flowers do not love him back.
In December 2011, a group of MSU study abroad students on an expedition in Antarctica found their boat stuck on ice, stranded, but not for too long.
Music performance and mechanical engineering freshman Rashad Timmons labeled himself as “the exception” on Thursday night because of his background viewing drugs and corruption in his family.
While looking to make friends as a freshman, elementary education junior Miranda Hosbein decided to join the coed community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.
March Magic Hoopfest is just another way Paul Rodenhouse can give back to the community. The MSU graduate student is in his second year of volunteering at March Magic Hoopfest through the College of Osteopathic Medicine. “Basketball is one of my favorite sports,” Rodenhouse said.
Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education will host its inaugural I Am A Teacher expo next weekend for students interested in becoming teachers.
The Honors College is hosting several student activities in honor of Geek Week, which runs March 26 to 31.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, is hosting a forum for MSU students and community members to discuss MSU’s Energy Transition Plan.
Applications are being accepted for the MSU Federal Credit Union Internship Opportunity Award programs.
With the end of the semester and final exams approaching for many students, the MSU libraries likely will see an increase of people hitting the books. But for some ASMSU representatives, the existing weekend study hours in the Main Library don’t provide students enough time to study.
Sir Ken Robinson still can remember a time he was sitting in a restaurant when he noticed a couple obviously on a date. As he watched them, he said they weren’t staring longingly into each other’s eyes, as you might expect a couple to do. Instead, they were looking at their cell phones, texting. Robinson said this is one of the many dangers of the tools of technology. But despite the drawback of technology sometimes distracting us from forming stronger relationships, Robinson told students when he visited MSU yesterday that such devices actually can be used for good when it comes to creativity.
Since he was born, expensive medical treatment has helped keep Mikhail Filipovitch’s heart beating. The history junior — who attended a roundtable discussion hosted by national nonprofit organization Young Invincibles on Wednesday in the Union’s Multicultural Center — said he doesn’t have health insurance, and because of the pre-existing heart condition he has, health insurance companies won’t give him coverage.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, invited MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to its weekly meeting Wednesday night to discuss a number of university issues, including increases to tuition and the continued effort to address smoking on campus.
Even without walls, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is a functioning facility at MSU — at least in the virtual sense. Officials recently launched the Virtual Broad Art Museum, designed to give users the opportunity not only to tour the interior and exterior of the building but interact with several online art projects, museum director Michael Rush said. “Ever since I got here, this is something that I’ve wanted to do,” Rush said.
While some students might spend this summer lounging by a beach, working a summer job or taking classes, third-year veterinary student Erica Ward is going to be scrubbing down and bandaging up elephants in Thailand.
As the MSU men’s basketball team has stepped up on the hardwood this postseason, advancing to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, this year’s squad also has stepped up in the classroom.
An MSU sophomore with the modeling name Marla Marie fluffed her shoulder-length brown hair, pouted her lips and posed seductively as Playboy Magazine photographer Matt Wagemann snapped shots with his camera Tuesday afternoon. The student was one of about 50 women auditioning for Playboy Magazine’s October 2012 “Girls of the Big Ten” pictorial. Representatives from the magazine held the casting call Tuesday and auditions are scheduled to continue today.
Starting July 1, MSU students who choose to help pay for college with the Stafford Subsidized Loan will have to pay double the current interest rate once they graduate. MSU’s Associate Director of Financial Aid Val Meyers said about 15,200 students received the Stafford Subsidized Loan in the 2010-11 academic year.