MSU undergraduates will present research projects today at the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum in the Union. The forum, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., features the projects of more than 600 MSU undergraduates that range from genetic mapping to creative writing.
The search for a new children’s choir director for the MSU Community Music School is over. University officials sought applicants from as far away as Italy and Australia, but the search concluded with one of MSU’s own.
A Lyman Briggs College alumnus will speak at the first commencement held by the college since the decision to reinstate it in 2006. Capt. Kenneth Earhart is commander of the Cairo, Egypt-based infectious disease research facility U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, or NAMRU-3.
Health officials investigating the campus outbreak of a stomach virus two weeks ago have determined a time frame in which they believe most students were infected.
When Abhinav Katiyar looks back on his first few weeks in the U.S. as a freshman at MSU, he remembers sitting alone in the cafeteria. And he remembers one person — his resident mentor — waving him down and carrying his tray over to join him.
Members of Spartan Students Against Drunk Driving, or SSADD, braved a damp, cold day to spread their message of drunken driving awareness Tuesday during the first-ever Spartan Students Against Drunk Driving Day.
A fire in a fourth-floor room in Owen Hall caused between $10,000 and $15,000 worth of damage Tuesday and prompted 200 to 300 people to evacuate the building, police said.
The sled dogs who run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race might not only be rushing toward the finish line, but also toward possible new treatments for conditions such as type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Members of the MSU basketball teams weren’t the only Spartans who attained the Sweet Sixteen this year. International relations junior Nada Zohdy is the sixteenth student from MSU to receive the Truman Scholarship, which provides money for graduate school to students who demonstrate leadership, said Tara Yglesias, deputy executive secretary for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
As MSU’s transgender housing policy rounds off its first year of operation, a student is taking the first steps toward a policy that would expand gender-neutral housing to a campus-wide scale, allowing any two students of the opposite sex the option to room together.
Halfway around the world in a country roughly the size of Michigan, the school year is wrapping up for about 50 MSU students. They are the inaugural class at MSU Dubai, the university’s newest campus, located in the Middle East. MSU has joined several leading American universities in moving to the Middle East, a migration that some have called an “educational gold rush” to one of the world’s largest emerging markets.
The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, is calling for MSU to reconsider Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its commencement speaker, citing his criticisms of Israel. They also have called for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to reconsider him as a speaker.
Voter turnout for student elections last week was lower than previous years, but two tax referenda for student organizations passed. The taxes almost completely fund the organizations.
MSU Resident Halls Association’s hiring practices were brought into question Wednesday after the General Assembly determined it was unclear whether or not recent hiring practices followed RHA’s bylaws.
It’s a story that led Maj. David Howell, a Michigan National Guard physician’s assistant, back to Iraq. Instead of returning to the region for combat, he went to bring a child to America for a life-changing surgery, resulting in a union among MSU, the Michigan National Guard, Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital and many others.
The MSU Office for International Students and Scholars will honor deceased MSU student Don Ausman at its third annual Globie Awards today. The ceremony is scheduled for noon in The Spartan Club, located on the fourth floor of Spartan Stadium.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly failed to meet quorum at its final meeting of the 17th session Tuesday, which killed bills to change the assembly’s code of operations. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Yash Pal Kapur, an accomplished professor who received accolades worldwide in the field of medicine, died Tuesday. The professor emeritus, 82, was the chairman of the Department of Surgery in the College of Human Medicine.
Students and faculty gathered for a professor’s “last lecture” Wednesday night, but they were not taking notes or attending a class. As part of the ASMSU-sponsored Last Lecture Series, Steve Sharra, a visiting assistant professor in philosophy and peace and justice studies, spoke about his home country of Malawi and the lessons he learned from his time there.
MSU painted a troublesome picture of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum’s future on Wednesday, saying it didn’t expect to break ground on the project until March 2010, more than a year and a half later than originally planned.