Hundreds of students, dressed in black and green to show their solidarity, gathered at the rock on Farm Lane Thursday to show their support for the six black teenagers charged in a school fight in Jena, La.
During the time he spent at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Kent Cassella was known for being on the cutting edge of media communications. Cassella was named MSU’s director of media communications last week, a position that has been vacant since January. He worked at West Point from 2002-07 as chief of media relations and public information, then as director of public relations.
Samantha Dresser, a psychology senior, sees fasting on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur as a cleansing tradition. For 25 hours beginning tonight at sundown, she will abstain from eating and drinking in order to finish out the Jewish High Holiday season, which began last week with Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish new year.
Preveterinary medicine sophomore Kendall Simon performed her first surgery in central Mexico
It’s that time of year again – election season. With November just around the corner, everyone from campus officials to Rock the Vote campaigners are registering students to vote.
If someone is leaving the library, gym or even a party at night, they may — or may not — notice a number of bright green lights throughout campus. There are more than 140 emergency phones gleaming a bright green color when fully functional.
Growing up in Germany, Michael Thoennessen did not always plan on becoming a physicist.
Since her freshman year, political theory and constitutional democracy junior Raynika Brown has worked in Brody Hall’s cafeterias and never had a problem with her job. Until this year. MSU’s Housing and Food Services has made a few changes to the dining halls across campus. As a result, student cafeteria employees say they are understaffed and are struggling to adjust to the new dining hall schedules.
When Eric Tingwall landed in Germany on Sept. 10, he didn’t realize it would only be a matter of hours before his work was published in an online car magazine. But the mechanical engineering and journalism senior’s 500-word essay won him the opportunity to do so.
They almost didn’t make it, but David Cooper and Peter Berg survived a vehicle malfunction and safely brought Pulitzer Prize award winner Robert Coles’ literary archive to East Lansing.
A group of 18 Nigerian delegates are visiting MSU this week in cooperation with the exchange program Responsible Governance, which offers training to Nigerian government officials, community leaders and university scholars.
MSU is taking its nationally recognized workers’ compensation program east, hoping to aid Rutgers University in providing the same services for New Jersey residents.
For many in the 1960s, Phil Frank’s cartoons were something to look forward to when students opened The State News. Phil Frank, a political cartoonist and 1965 MSU graduate, died Wednesday from a brain tumor. He was 64.
Negotiating the responsibilities of home is something Jennifer Sowa has been working on with her husband lately. With one child, Sowa said the division of housework and child care is constantly being discussed. That’s why the lecture “How do professional couples in corporate America negotiate household and child care duties” caught her eye.
With pounding tribal rhythms blasting, Bryant Rogers and Mercio Goenha stepped to the center of the crowd. As the intensity of the music rose, Goenha and Rogers came alive, engaging each other with flying cartwheel kicks and soaring punches. They moved with such fluidity the match came to resemble a rhythmic dance.
Bailey Park usually is used for soccer practices or baseball training, but once a year, it becomes the place for bocce ball.
A bell-ringing ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Monday at Beaumont Tower to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Forty MSU freshmen raced pop cans down a track Thursday for MSU’s new engineering course geared toward hands-on learning.
MSU just can’t keep those pesky Truman Scholarship Foundation trustees away. With 15 students accepted in the 30-year history of the prestigious award, the university has finally received its due.
MSU’s College of Business is requesting the university’s Academic Governance to approve a split within the Marketing and Supply Chain Management Department. If approved, the department would become two separate entities.