State officials are expected to announce the status of partial funding for the proposed multimillion dollar Bio Engineering Facility on Thursday, said Kurt Weiss, spokesman for the State Budget Office.
Dead Prez holds a special place in Cletissa Haynes-Hogue’s heart.
Students might soon be noticing a pop of color on the wrists of classmates who are part of one organization’s mission to raise awareness for various issues currently facing society. The bracelets, made by the California-based company Pura Vida, are beginning to gain popularity on college campuses throughout the nation with the help of students, said psychology sophomore and MSU Pura Vida campus representative Gia Georgiades.
When MSU alternative band Audio Monarch hit the stage at the International Center Friday night, it was clear the group came out to have a good time.
Several years ago, West Circle Complex Director Kate Burdick said she had a Mexican resident who was a star student and one of the most popular people on his floor.
The phrase, “You play like a girl,” has been thrown around in gymnasiums and playgrounds for decades — typically as an insult from one male to another.
Lansing resident Dave Cripe and his father, Al, began making buttons for car shows as a hobby. Little did they know a business would develop into what is now known as Betty’s Buttons & T-Shirts, 1135 S. Washington Ave., in Lansing, named after Cripe’s mother, Betty.
MSU students and officials are working to help an MSU student from Korea who has been diagnosed with a severe form of cancer.
With the student election season fast approaching this spring, ASMSU officials are preparing to raise visibility and voter turnout with a new level of student engagement.
When the Internet was invented, it opened up a gateway for students of all ages and education levels to cheat, share information and plagiarize — leaving instructors to develop countermeasures.
Racism could be the source of premature births in black women, according to a documentary shown in Brody Auditorium on Thursday.
ASMSU’s committees discussed several controversial bills concerning student safety and security at their Thursday night meeting in Student Services.
In an attempt to increase the school’s national academic ranking, an admissions official at Claremont McKenna College in California exaggerated students SAT scores, an issue which has raised concerns from MSU students and administrators. “The problem with rankings is that they can have a negative effect on many colleges’ perceived status,” said Jeff Olson, Kaplan Test Prep vice president of data science.
MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business ranked No. 1 nationally and No. 2 worldwide in placement success for graduates, according to a Financial Times MBA ranking released Monday.
On Sunday, MSU will participate for the second year in the RecycleMania Tournament — a competition that runs from Feb. 5 to March 31. More than 600 colleges from across the country compete to collect the largest amount of recyclable products, and MSU officials aim to collect more than 1 million pounds of recyclables during the competition.
MSU’s 2011 endowment funds rank No. 5 of the 12 institutions in the Big Ten in terms of percentage increase, according to the initial results of a national survey. The survey, released Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, or NACUBO, shows the percentage change in the market value of an endowment from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011, MSU chief financial officer Mark Haas said in an email.
Before supply chain management junior Hashim Alsadah arrived in East Lansing from Saudi Arabia, he signed a contract with oil company Saudi Aramco guaranteeing him a job after graduation. In exchange, the company is paying for his tuition and fees at MSU.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, continues to work toward fixing the campus movie offices, and new computers will be available next week to aid the group with movie rentals.
When biosystems and agricultural engineering professor Evangelyn Alocilja began research in 2000 to create nanoparticle-based biosensors that could detect diseases, she never imagined she would one day become the founder of a company.
The whipped cream was flying Tuesday at the rock on Farm Lane, where ONE MSU and the University of Michigan’s chapter of ONE — a national organization that campaigns to end poverty in countries across the globe — joined forces for a cause.