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MSU awaits return of alumni authors

Thomas McGuane remembers talking with excitement to other young writers about literature as an MSU student during the early 1960s — but that’s not all he remembers. “It seemed like MSU always had a lot of beautiful girls,” the now acclaimed writer said. “That probably stands out more in my mind than anything else.”

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MSU professors recognized by U.S. EPA

Two MSU professors won the 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their work in pollution prevention.

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Mich. leaders rally to bring new lab to MSU

Michigan business, economic and political leaders met last week to announce a statewide effort to help MSU win a national competition for the $550-million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, that would update the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory on campus.

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Munir pleads not guilty

After facing charges of using the computer for criminal behavior, an MSU visiting research associate from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center had his plea entered as not guilty at his hearing Thursday, as he wished to remain mute.

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Leaders meet to push for nuclear science facility on campus

Michigan business, economic and political leaders met Tuesday to announce a statewide effort to help MSU win a national competition for the $550 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy that would update the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory on campus.

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Alumni relive MSU experience

Sparty riled up a unique crowd in the Auditorium on Wednesday as alumni from decades past and children still in grade school were brought together on campus for Grandparents University.

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Subject, experiment numbers drop

The lower summer enrollment on campus has emptied out more than just residence halls, as graduate students trying to complete dissertations in the Department of Psychology are left without subjects for their research studies.

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Former MSU student sentenced

A former MSU freshman who pleaded guilty to throwing an empty beer bottle during the Cedar Fest riots has been sentenced to 30 days in the Ingham County Jail by East Lansing 54-B District Court Judge Richard Ball.