A 10-minute brainstorming session can accomplish a lot. While riding back from class together, hospitality business seniors John Triblo and Brian Weber developed the idea to start the Spartan Enology Society, or SES.
After five years of research by a collaboration of Spartan biologists, engineers and computer scientists, MSU’s BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action published its first report since opening its doors earlier this year. The study focuses on why, in a survival of the fittest state of nature, organisms help each other, said Jeff Clune, an MSU alumnus and lead author of the study. By witnessing digital evolution in motion, researchers now are able to better understand the behavior of the altruism gene.
When linguistics junior Kyle Voelker attends MSU home football games, he has no problem participating in the fanfare and the rowdiness of the student section.
After undergoing a successful knee arthroscopy for a small meniscus tear in his left knee Tuesday, MSU junior guard Korie Lucious is expected to be out for 2-6 weeks, according to a statement from MSU Athletic Communications.
MSU College Democrats held a watch party at 7 p.m. yesterday in Case Hall for President Barack Obama’s youth rally.
As Genesee County commissioners work to balance the county’s budget prior to the Friday deadline, officials at the MSU Extension office in Genesee County, Mich., are bracing for the potential of steep cuts.
The RCAH Center for Poetry will host the “Odes to Autumn” Writing Workshop at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 in Snyder and Phillips halls.
The MSU Breakdance Club began five years ago with biosystems engineering senior and club president Andy Tran and two of his friends.
Alternative pop band Passion Pit will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at the MSU Auditorium. The group will play as part of the Campus Consciousness Tour, a program developed to promote environmental consciousness on campus. Canadian rapper Drake came to MSU as part of the Campus Consciousness spring 2010 tour. “It’s a program … to enhance college students’ ideas and educate them about how to be environmentally friendly,” said Emily Tschirhart, spokeswoman for Residence Halls Association. Tickets are $21 for students and $30 for the public.
Recent approvals given by U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, officials for MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, nudges the multimillion dollar project closer to completion toward the end of the decade. On Thursday, the FRIB project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the DOE.
MSU was chosen as one of four schools to be featured in a national live broadcast on NBC at 2 p.m. Monday at Breslin Center.
The 2010 World Stem Cell Summit will be co-hosted by MSU, Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Brisk winds, caramel apples and beautiful days for football are indications of only one thing — fall has arrived. Since Wednesday’s official ushering in of the new season, East Lansing residents and students swapped bikinis and shorts for sweatshirts and blue jeans. “I usually wear layers and layers of clothes,” said Jimmy Johnson, a psychology and premedical sophomore. “I’m already starting to do that and it’s bad because it’s just fall.
After a summer of renovations to Hubbard Hall’s interior, university officials ushered in a new phase of MSU’s living and learning experience, presenting it to the public during a grand opening event Thursday afternoon. Changes made to the hall is the first step in MSU’s plan to expand the Neighborhood Concept pilot project.
The MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the U.S.
Wolfgang Bauer, an MSU professor of physics and astronomy, is giving a speech on quantum mechanics today in Anthony Hall titled “Quantum Computing, the Next Big Thing?” The speech will deal with recent advances in quantum mechanics that allow computers to process exponentially more information than conventional digital processors. Bauer, a native of Germany, has worked on the Cyclotron since 1988 and has been a professor at MSU since 1996. Bauer now works in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and in 2007 was named a University Distinguished Professor. The speech will take place at 11:30 a.m.
In honor of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, MSU students gathered Thursday at the LBGT Resource Center to share some of their struggles and victories as they held a discussion of issues affecting bisexuals.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, is working to develop more graduate wellness programs and create a graduate student center on campus, after a survey sent out last spring showed graduate students were concerned about those and other issues.
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.