Karen Plaut was presented with an Outstanding Supervisor Award in honor of National Boss Day on Tuesday. The awards, given by MSU’s Family Resource Center, started seven years ago at the university to honor bosses who are well-liked by their employees.
She jumped straight out of the comic strip and onto the streets. Standing in the corner of Wells Hall surrounded by signs proclaiming “anxiety,” “depression,” “culture shock,” and “stress” was Lucy Van Pelt, of “Peanuts” fame, ready to offer her brand of psychiatric advice.
For Abby Schirmer, debating offers the chance for a challenge after doing hours of careful and detailed research.
Between burgers, beer and games of bag toss, some tailgaters found themselves discussing a topic not typically associated with college football — renewable fuels.
Although the university’s $1.4 billion fundraising campaign has come to a conclusion, officials do not expect donations to come to a halt.
Using this year’s theme of “Where Heroes are Made,” student organizations created floats for the Homecoming Parade on Friday. Throughout the week, student groups met in the concourse of Spartan Stadium to assemble their floats on top of flatbeds or to create banners. Here are a few examples of what some student groups are doing in honor of Homecoming.
The color-coded wristbands for lower-bowl Izzone members at men’s home basketball games are no longer in effect.
Recipients of 2007 MSU Alumni Association awards range from former NASA employees to former MSU Trustees members and multi-million dollar philanthropists. Fourteen individuals and organizations are expected to receive awards Thursday at the Kellogg Center commemorating them for their work with the university.
Religion and abortion — two topics typically thought of as polar opposites — will come together for a lecture today given by a minister with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a national pro-choice organization.
Students in an ISS class were treated to a first-hand discussion with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., on financial aid and rising health care and tuition costs and her position on the war in Iraq.
As MSU takes the next steps in restructuring the Academic Governance system to increase faculty voice, students may see a decrease in theirs.
It was her love of horses as a child that left Susan Ewart knowing what she wanted to do in life — become a veterinarian.
This year’s Nobel Prize for physics winners Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg’s research could potentially allow for more songs on an MP3 player or more memory on a laptop.
Cafeterias across campus continue to increase the variety of food during meals to better accommodate vegetarians. However, some students living in the dorms find it difficult to practice vegetarianism in the healthiest way, even with the updates.
Athletics Director Designate Mark Hollis was asked to attend ASMSU’s Thursday Student Assembly meeting to clear up football student section policy misconceptions.
When he lived at home, criminal justice freshman Garrett Faulk said he and his family only occasionally talked about their Iroquois roots.
Finding an internship can be tough, sometimes seemingly impossible in the competitive, increasingly global economy.
ASMSU officials said they realize many students have no idea what events they do and do not sponsor.
As Matt Lempke labored through Calculus II problems earlier this semester, he found himself stuck. Lempke, a chemical engineering freshman, logged onto Facebook.com and used the “Courses” application on the Web site to find a classmate for help.
More than 1,000 students poured into the Union from noon-4 p.m. on Thursday to search for information about the various housing opportunities on and off campus.