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.
MSU is hosting a jazz camp that began on Sunday and will conclude Friday, according to a statement from MSU. The 65 participating students are from Lansing and Detroit and are middle- and high-school aged.
President Lou Anna K. Simon plans to particpate in the National Summit in Detroit, which began Monday and will run until Wednesday. Simon will speak at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. She will be addressing education’s role in helping the U.S. labor force become more technologically skilled, according to a statement from MSU.
Third-graders don’t always race to get healthy food, but for two classes at Willow Elementary School in Lansing, getting fruits and vegetables showed the MSU students who had been teaching them how much they had learned.
Changes in Michigan’s job industry mean graduates are deserting the state at increasing rates, said Britany Affolter-Caine, coordinator of Intern in Michigan, a new Web site and job program.
An MSU professor will work on turning cornstarch into medicine at the university’s Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich. Afid Therapeutics Inc., owned by biochemistry and microbiology professor Rawle Hollingsworth, will be the first bioeconomy company to use the labs and production plant at the MSU-owned facility in Holland.
To those who knew him, Dorian Dawkins was a go-getter and a team player. The 14-year-old son of Saginaw High School basketball coach Lou Dawkins collapsed Friday night during his team’s game in MSU’s Team Shootout tournament at IM Sports-East. He died after being taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing by ambulance.
An employee from Adobe Systems Inc. will be on campus to display some of the company’s upcoming software at 7 p.m. on June 16 in Room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.
Some students are learning to expect the unexpected as the automotive industry, a foundation of Michigan’s economy, crumbles around them. The impact of the bankruptcies at Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp., has not passed by MSU and instead is hitting hard on the lives of students.
Young adults who spend extended periods of time in correctional facilities continue to show a high rate of psychiatric disorders, according to an MSU-related study released June 3.
A seascape painting featuring the remnants of a flooded town is the newest addition to MSU’s Kresge Art Museum. Susan J. Bandes, director of the the museum, said the painting — “An Estuary with Row and Sail Boats,” by 17th century Dutch painter Jan van Goyen — is an important addition to the museum’s collection not only as an individual piece but as an addition to the collection of other 17th century Dutch paintings of different types.
One of the first milestones on the road to bring the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams to MSU was announced Monday. MSU and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a cooperative agreement that will allow the DOE Office of Science to begin funding the project, according to a statement from MSU.
Young adults who join gangs are more likely to be victims of violence, but their membership makes them feel safer, according to a study by an MSU professor. Chris Melde, an assistant professor of criminal justice at MSU, led the federally funded study that found pressure for gang members to show nerve or fearlessness distorts their perception of risk and feelings of fear.