Passersby on Farm Lane on Thursday might have noticed the fraternity rush signs usually seen this time of year looked a bit different. The signs were vandalized and knocked over sometime during Wednesday or Thursday, Interfraternity Council President Bill Zajac said.
Government and university officials will be on campus today to celebrate the announcement of five federal grants awarded in Michigan under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
A construction project MSU hopes will advance the university’s standing in the field of plant sciences and attract related grants for research is on track for completion, officials said.
After being released from six years of service in the Navy this June, going back to college wasn’t on the top of Patrick Powers’ to-do list.
Hundreds of students gathered at Spartan Stadium to take part in the largest law school fair ever at MSU, Thursday evening. The fair welcomed 94 law schools from across the country and was open to all students in all majors and colleges.
Gordon Jensen had a plan — to graduate with a degree in computer science, spend a few years in the workplace and return to MSU for a master’s degree in business administration. Not all students take Jensen’s approach.
Sparty and the green splash screen will no longer welcome users to the World Wide Web — both will instead take a backseat to Microsoft Windows’ shade of blue. Employees at MSU Academic Technology Services, or ATS, implemented a new login system to 2,000 public university computers for the fall semester, creating a reduced system startup time, said Matt Kolb, assistant director of ATS. During a summer pilot program to compare the new and old systems, ATS employees noticed a 30 percent power reduction between the “green screen” and the new Windows login as energy-conserving settings could be enabled, he said. “The previous system was based on multiple-generations-ago technology,” Kolb said.
Changes to campus bus routes around East Neighborhood have been met by mixed reviews from students, while MSU officials said they’ve had few complaints. The changes, which took effect Aug.
Six different faiths came together Tuesday night for “Voices of Faith and Reason: Pathways to Peace,” an interfaith celebration of the International Day of Peace. The event, sponsored by the Shalom Center for Justice & Peace, 215 N. Capitol Ave., and the MSU Campus Interfaith Council, included speakers representing Baha’i, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and secular humanists. Each representative spoke on their approach to peace and their traditions’ perspectives.
Michael Nyika was depositing his paycheck at the Union last Monday when he spotted a man working on a gray machine Nyika had never seen before. His curiosity was piqued. The foreign machine was a Laptops Anytime kiosk, a station that holds eight 15.4 inch Dell laptops and six 10.1 inch Dell Netbooks that are available for students, staff or campus visitors to rent starting at $1 for the first half hour, and $3.95 for each additional hour for students and $7.95 for non-students.
Professors in the departments of electrical engineering and kinesiology have partnered together in an effort to learn more about how the human body reacts to physical activity to better improve overall health. The research involves the development and testing of a new type of wearable multi-sensors, developed by MSU engineering professor Subir Biswas.
For Dayna Bancroft, the two-mile stretch around the Red Cedar River will always be a walk to remember. Bancroft, an Ovid, Mich.
The rain Saturday afternoon couldn’t dampen the spirits of thousands of alumni and fans who gathered on campus to cheer on the Spartans or the opportunity to share their stories with the world.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, is hosting its third annual Clean Commute Challenge today through Friday to encourage the public to participate actively in cleaner commuting and cleaner communities, said Edgerly, CATA’s Clean Commute Options coordinator.
MSU officials gathered in the Wells Hall east plaza Thursday to take part in a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the official beginning of an expansion at the building. The expansion will add three stories above the B-wing of Wells Hall, adding about 88,000 square feet of additional learning space.
Vice president for student affairs and services Lee June will step down from his position at the end of the year, June announced Thursday. June also announced he will return to the faculty effective Jan.
What might have resulted in a field day for the ducks along the Red Cedar River turned out to be more of an inconvenience to many students and area businesses after heavy thunderstorms swept through the area Thursday.
The MSU Board of Trustees will meet Friday to discuss proposals to proceed with construction at the MSU Cyclotron building, establish plans to replace the Main Library’s chilled water system and approve an expansion of IBM located inside the MSU Federal Credit Union’s former Crescent Road headquarters.
ASMSU’s governmental affairs leadership is building up their new blog to help keep students in touch with governmental issues that have the potential to impact them. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Last year’s flu season conjures up images of long lines, repeat visits to the doctor and vaccine shortages, but with a new vaccine, local health officials are expecting a much smoother process this year. The 2010-11 vaccine, distributed by the federal government, will attack three strains of influenza including the H3N2 virus, the influenza B virus and the H1N1 virus, said James McCurtis Jr., a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Community Health, or MDCH. “It’s hard to say, but we hope numbers (of flu instances) will be down this year,” McCurtis said.