Many professors are expecting fewer students in class after the Final Four game. Some say they are considering postponing exams or canceling class altogether.
The MSU Department of Psychology will host the first Psychology Multicultural Student Conference this month.
The MSU Honors College is sponsoring Geek Week 2010 next week by hosting daily activities for students.
The world’s largest particle accelerator made history Tuesday when two beams of energy collided with one another at levels never before seen by scientists — and a team of MSU researchers had a front row seat as it happened.
A student judiciary board hearing involving two former student government officials was held Tuesday evening, although the meeting was closed to the public and its outcome will not be known until the end of the week. The hearing occurred a year after a report leveling allegations against Manish Madan, former president of the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, surfaced during a meeting to elect the group’s executive board.
The MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences will hold group sessions to discuss curriculum changes within the journalism school each day this week from either 9-10 a.m.
A new clothing line started by an MSU alumnus and Western Michigan University student is set to launch Thursday in what the pair hopes will be a positive showing of innovation in a state whose livelihood has been underscored by economic despair.
Temperatures will continue to hold in the 70s this week and might break a record high of 81 degrees Friday. Meteorologists warn conditions this weekend are prime for fire outbreaks.
A conference, Why it Matters: Addressing Myths and Realities of the Relationship Among Mental Health, Violence and Muslims, will take place from 8:45 a.m.
A dedicated group of Spartan fans took advantage of the good weather to bid the No. 5-seed MSU men’s basketball team adieu as they head to the Final Four in Indianapolis. More than 100 people from MSU and the surrounding community cheered on head coach Tom Izzo and his players as they embarked from Breslin on a trip through Lansing and East Lansing that would give the Spartan faithful a chance to cheer for the team as they left town.
About 40 students met with university administrators Tuesday to voice concerns about potential budget cuts to programs aimed at multicultural students, including a potential 7 percent cut to the Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions, or OCAT.
For MSU’s College of Nursing, education is going virtual as the school explores Spartan Health Island, an online community that allow students to become avatars and simulate home visits with patients. Spartan Health Island, located within the online community of Second Life, has been implemented in the course Nursing 470, Community Health and Population Nursing.
The MSU Polish Club hosted an egg-ornamenting event Tuesday in celebration of this weekend’s Easter holiday. Pisanki, derived from the Polish word “pisac” meaning “to write,” is the term used to describe the technique of decorating an egg with any pattern or image desired.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine LGBT Allies in Medicine will host several speakers this week as a part of LGBT Health Awareness Week: Closing the Gap.
Officials on the newly elected executive board for the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, want to create new programs and services for the more than 10,000 graduate and professional students at MSU, but said their plans are contingent on a tax referendum currently before students.
Beginning this fall, the MSU colleges of Education and Osteopathic Medicine will collaborate to better prepare health educators for teaching through a new online master’s degree program. The Education for Health Professions program was approved last week by MSU’s Academic Council.
Some MSU students celebrated Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday, from turning off the lights for one hour at 8:30 p.m. to enjoying various forms of energy-free entertainment, such as relaxation lessons to poetry performances.
With more than 400 guests, a live instrumental band and a room teeming with almost every flavor of wine imaginable, the mood was especially festive for the 15th annual Wine Tasting Benefit for the MSU Museum.
MSU Model United Nations, or MSUMUN, hosted its 10th annual Model UN conference, called Conference X, for 429 high schoolers from 30 Midwest schools. The three-day event, sponsored by MSU James Madison College and ASMSU, was divided into 12 historical and currently operating organizations and councils. The students debated three issues per committee from the perspective of an assigned country, senator or other political leader in their organization. This year, the conference was held on MSU’s campus for the first time, and Wharton said its location almost doubled the number of delegates who attended. She said having the event on campus promotes MSU as a university and the students enjoy feeling a part of the MSU community. “If they’re into basketball, they’re watching that game with MSU students who are cheering right along with them, and you can tell how excited they are,” Wharton said. Another draw for the high school teams included the Michigan Senate committee, which was held for the first time. Monika Johnson, MSUMUN’s chair of the Senate committee and international relations junior, said the issues discussed in the committee hit home with the delegates. “One of the girls said that her mom had been out of a job for three years, so she was especially interested in the economic development topic,” Johnson said.