A total of 1,730 undergraduate-degree candidates and 753 advanced-degree candidates will graduate during three commencement ceremonies today and Saturday at Breslin Center.
Various engineering projects created by students in the MSU College of Engineering — ranging from a bicycle designed for three people to a roadside assistance mobile phone application — will be on display today at the college’s Design Day event.
This Saturday, students form the MSU College of Nursing will graduate from the college with a pinning ceremony and enter into a job market that is in need of their skills.
Advertising junior Kyle Ribant has given up on traditional means of purchasing clothing and turned to the Internet to do his shopping. Ribant said he is attracted to cyber shopping because of the many opportunities to find sales on clothing.
The Residence Hall Association, or RHA, passed a bill in support of a plan that could make fitness facilities more accessible for students living on campus at an RHA meeting in Holmes Hall on Wednesday night.
In a continued effort to create a graduate student resource center on campus, the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, passed a resolution asking for student and community support for renovating Chittenden Hall at its Wednesday night meeting.
Out of nearly 48,000 students at MSU, international relations senior Spencer Nordwick is the only one studying the Tajik language — a variation of Persian.
Residents in West Circle and East neighborhoods could see changes to their culinary services in the coming years pending an evaluation examining logistics of renovating cafeterias in Landon and Akers halls.
This holiday season, the Hospitality Association in The School of Hospitality Business is teaming up with Volunteers of America to deliver food, clothing and gifts for two local, low-income families.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, is looking into altering its method for distributing funds to student groups to better utilize allocated money for student events.
With the stress of finals around the corner, some students are in need of some extra support from their families. But for students who have aged out of the foster care system, such support is not always easy to find.
In early 2012, MSU officials will focus on the search for a new vice president for research and graduate studies before turning their attention to filling the positions of vice president for university relations and vice president for student affairs and services, university spokesman Kent Cassella said.
As soon as he picked up his first chunk of clay, Wade MacDonald’s fate was decided. While attending Western Michigan University for his undergraduate degree, the current MSU graduate student took a class in which he was able to work on a ceramics wheel and decided to incorporate the practice into his future career.
The amount of Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or DMCA, complaints MSU received in 2011 nearly has tripled since 2009.
Christopher Cooley was told countless times to shave off his mustache last month. He said a barber even told him it looked terrible, and he needed to get rid of it. Although the second-year medical student was tempted to shave it off at times, he kept his mustache through November because it was a symbol of his commitment to spreading awareness about men’s health.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon joined President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and others Friday in Washington, D.C., to launch the Better Buildings Challenge, aimed to promote energy efficiency in buildings across the country.
After a long first semester at MSU, premedical freshman Ashwin Easow said it’s hard to remember all the material covered in his classes months ago.
During the eight days prior to finals week, the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, and other black student organizations are hosting the first MSU Study-in in an effort to combat the low retention and graduation rates of students within the MSU black community.
An MSU professor’s research has shown most people would take the life of one person to save the lives of five in a virtual scenario of a classic moral dilemma.
In one night, studio art sophomore Michael Geeter gambled on horse racing, went to the Bahamas and became a police officer.