Local aspiring performers gathered at Wharton Center Monday for the first day of a weeklong series of interactive workshops for youth interested in pursuing a career on Broadway.
Like many students preparing for college, incoming freshmen Alex Wrobleski and Jon Drury were looking for a summer job to earn money before beginning college.
It’s something almost every high school senior has to face at one point or another: touring universities to find the best fit for their university careers.
Alongside about 30 other families who have been helped by the Michigan chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 3-year-old Charlie Waller ran through Potter Park Zoo Sunday and played with his 7-year-old sister, Esther.
A controversial education council released a new study Thursday showing that many student teaching programs across the nation are failing to produce good educators. The report, which was published by the National Council on Teacher Quality, shows that roughly 75 percent of the 134 programs it rated were sub-par — it did not rate MSU’s program — but included three others in Michigan.
Middle school and high school students from across the state are getting a hands-on crash course in three different types of media technology through summer camps held this July by MSU’s Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media. The first of three weeks of camps kicked off July 11, with high school students taking a course of their choice, geared toward either television production, music recording or video game design.
The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and the College of Veterinary Medicine went head-to-head Wednesday during their second annual Red Cross Blood Challenge. The challenge is organized by the Red Cross in order to get more people to donate during the summer when their blood supply is at its lowest.
For the past three weeks, almost 80 high school students from Detroit and Chicago have gotten a taste of MSU campus life through the seventh year of the MSU College of Education’s Summer High School Scholars Program. About 78 students — ranging from incoming high school freshmen to seniors — have taken college preparation courses and stayed in MSU living facilities as part of the monthlong program, said James Neeley, the outreach and recruitment coordinator in the College of Education.
On a typical day at the Michigan Dairy Expo, Levi Westendorp gets up at 4 a.m. to wash and feed dairy cows. Westendorp, a farm worker at Westvale-VU Dairy Farm and MOO-ville Creamery, said it is his family’s 10th year being involved with the expo and it has been a lot of fun, as well as a chance to see how good their cows are against the best in Michigan. “It’s a great opportunity to showcase your farm and also just to interact with other farmers,” he said. Located at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education, the 15th annual Michigan Dairy Expo runs through Saturday, has various events going on each day and is free to the public.
During their highest levels of fertility, women feel more threatened by men, particularly those from differing backgrounds, according to a recent study conducted by MSU psychological researchers.
Since its launch at the end of June, people have been clamoring for invites to Google Plus, Google Inc.’s foray into the world of social networking.
For family community services senior Carolyn McLean, obtaining a credit card was simple. After receiving notification from Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, stating that she qualified for a credit card, McLean went to MSUFCU’s Union branch, filled out some paperwork and walked out with a credit card.
More than 250 agricultural vendors will flock to campus starting Tuesday for the 32nd annual Michigan Ag Expo. The three-day event — held in and around MSU’s South Campus farm — is expected to draw upwards of 15,000 visitors, nearly all members of the state’s farming industry.
Systemic problems within the Detroit Police Department have led MSU professor and sexual assault researcher Rebecca Campbell to work with authorities on a new system of increased efficiency for response to sexual assault. After 10,559 untested sexual assault kits, also known as rape kits, dating back to the 1980s were discovered, the Department of Justice funded a project in which Campbell is serving as an independent evaluator of the kits with the hopes of forming a new protocol for sexual assault response that could become the national standard.
Nearly 10 months after ground was first broken at the site, construction progress continues as expected at the Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research, university officials said yesterday. The foundation at the site is in the process of being poured, and the building should be ready for occupation in October 2012, university engineer Bob Nestle said. Upon completion, the $17.6 million facility is expected to provide additional space for programs related to MSU’s College of Nursing operations.
When MSU alumnus Dan Redford first arrived on campus, his mind was made up: He was going to become a lawyer and get involved in politics. He soon joined a pre-law fraternity, eventually becoming its president, and even interned in the Michigan State Senate. But he soon discovered that law and politics might not be for him.
July 9, 2011, now will be known as South Sudan’s independence day. In January, a referendum was held, and a majority voted that the Southern region should be independent from the North.
Despite being an admittedly poor fly-fisher, Andrew McGlashen still needed a fishing buddy, so he asked Jeff Brooks Gillies if he’d be interested in joining him. After driving home from a weekend fishing trip, the two came up with the idea for a website devoted exclusively to Michigan’s rivers. McGlashen and Gillies originally met as students in MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, and they used the tools they learned there to launch michiganrivernews.com. The uniqueness of the concept is what McGlashen thinks makes Michigan River News stand out. “We’re the only ones writing just about Michigan rivers, which is a narrow focus, but we think it’s the right focus,” he said.
Rock Camp, a week-long summer program for students ages 12-19, began Monday and will conclude with a performance at the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing on Friday at 5:30 p.m.
University officials said today MSU’s study abroad program in Japan continues to operate smoothly despite a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit off the country’s northeast shore last week.