The 46th session of ASMSU kicked off Saturday at a Student Assembly meeting at Patriarch Park, 1100 Alton Road, to appoint new representatives, outline the upcoming school year and discuss ways to increase the group’s campus presence.
The author of “The Soloist,” Steve Lopez, came to inspire new Spartans to find passion at MSU on Monday morning at Breslin Center, as part of the university’s “One Book, One Community” program.
Supervisors should be more attentive to the work and family needs of employees to maximize worker health and efficiency, according to a recent study co-authored by an MSU professor. Ellen Kossek, an MSU professor of organizational behavior and human resource management, helped create a training program aimed to ease tensions between employees’ work and family demands by instructing supervisors to address those concerns.
MSU researchers are working on reducing poverty and mitigating climate change at the same time. Their project, called Carbon2Markets, works to slow climate change through sequestering carbon via agroforestry and helps provide income to farmers.
Cheryl Goetz beat more than 100 applicants vying for 18 spots for a summer internship at the Houston-based National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, to study the health risks of long-term space flight on the human body. Goetz, a mathematics and premedical senior, said she has been working since May with the NASA Flight Analogs Project, a program that studies the effects of microgravity and space flight on the human body at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, Texas. “Every day I learn something new,” she said.
An MSU researcher could unlock genetic factors that contribute to plant invasions with the help of a $630,000 grant awarded by the National Science Foundation. The grant, which will be distributed during the next four years, was awarded last month to Jennifer Lau, a plant evolutionary ecologist with the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station’s Kellogg Biological Station.
Six premedical students from Grand Valley State University have been admitted to the MSU College of Human Medicine under an agreement geared toward students from and wishing to practice medicine in areas with low medical accessibility.
Elshafei Mohamed knows about the prison at Guantanamo Bay almost first-hand. A videographer from his hometown in Sudan, who was captured in Afghanistan, has been held there for five years.
For Franklin, Mich.-based sculptor Russell Thayer, MSU is a family tradition. And for that reason, he said he’s delighted to have one of his sculptures featured on campus.
Although many students might hold post-exam celebrations at a bar or a club, for the students in Nick Bowman’s Communications 399 class, planning a night out on the town is the final exam.
Although guns remain prohibited from MSU campus buildings, those with concealed weapons permits now can carry a firearm through campus, following a MSU Board of Trustees vote Friday.
MSU students could see as much as a 10.1 percent tuition increase during the next two years, the MSU Board of Trustees decided Friday when it approved the 2009-10 university budget guidelines.
Eighteen little faces crowded around a hive where hundreds of bees swarmed Saturday. “This is bee rush hour,” 8-year-old Patrick Meehan shouted as the insects scrambled to leave the hive through a tube leading out of the building.
After a week of research, 50 forensic science hopefuls were given the chance to apply their skills Friday at the mock murder scene of Bad Choice, a dummy with two X’s for eyes drawn on his Styrofoam head.
If you are wondering where your unregistered Huffy disappeared to after hibernating on campus all winter, the MSU Surplus Store might be able to help.
An MSU professor received more than $100,000 in federal stimulus money to hire summer researchers. Chemistry associate professor Dana Spence said his lab is still looking for an undergraduate student and a high school teacher to work as researchers this summer.
Officials at MSU Dubai announced on Friday the creation of the MSU Dubai Distinguished Scholarship Program, which will provide financial assistance to 10 students for the fall semester.
Michigan college students who rely on the Promise Scholarship may need to find another way to come up with cash for school. On Tuesday, a state Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to eliminate the Michigan Promise Scholarship and drastically cut funding for need-based grant programs. The bill came before the full Senate appropriations committee Wednesday.
MSU graduate students interested in both education and economics won’t have to choose between passions anymore because of a new interdisciplinary program combining the two, set to start in the fall.
Fears of ecological disruptions as a result of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin might not be as serious as some believe, according to a new study led by MSU researchers.