Beginning in the spring semester of 2005, the university will award scholarships to student activists who work with issues relevant to students of color who are also a part of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community. The death of 15-year-old New Jersey resident Sakia Gunn, which resulted from a 2003 hate crime, became the motivation for a scholarship.
Five members of MSU's greek community have been honored by their peers for their service to the community. President of Sigma Phi Epsilon and 2004 graduate Anthony Morabito received the title of Interfraternity Council Greek Man of the Year.
Since the late 1980s the trend of university interaction with agriculture has been moving downward, yet MSU is determined to fight that trend with the International Rice Research Institute, or IRRI, said President M.
The 4th annual Corporate Golf Challenge fund-raiser will be held July 9 at MSU's Forest Akers West Golf Course.
If the upcoming National Truck Driving Championship is, as truckers say, the Super Bowl of safe trucking, then last weekend's 2004 Michigan Truck Driving Championship was the final competition of the playoffs.
Truck drivers from across the state will convene on MSU's Lot 89, the commuter lot, this weekend to test their driving skills and their dedication to safety at the 2004 Michigan Truck Driving Championship.
The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine will sponsor a presentation Thursday entitled "Beyond Disability: Optimizing the Physician/Client Experience" as part of the ongoing Diversity Education Series. The event will begin at 12 p.m.
MSU police made two separate arrests Monday involving one suspect who fled from IM Sports-West, ending on the roof of Munn Ice Arena and another who has admitted responsibility to at least 20 thefts of property from various campus buildings, MSU police Sgt.
Three of the nine MSU students who face legal action from the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally downloading and file sharing copyrighted music online have settled their cases. The amount of money agreed upon will not be disclosed, but RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said the regular settlement trend remains the same.
Professor David Stewart progressively lost most of his hearing as a young child, but turned what some would see as a hindrance into passionate fuel for deaf education. For friends and co-workers, they will no longer have the opportunity to work with Stewart.
An international science collaboration involving 11 MSU scientists has refined the mass measurement of an important subatomic particle. DZero, a group of university scientists and students from 18 nations, found a more accurate determination of the top quark particle may verify the Standard Model - a theory that explains how subatomic interactions occur - and would allow scientists to more completely understand the nature of the world and what holds it together.
MSU is one of 53 competitors in the running for a share of $24 million in funding from the state. The funds are made available by the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor in order to promote research, commercialization and job creation in the sciences, auto manufacturing and homeland security industries. A panel from the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences reviewed 131 proposals from universities, nonprofit organizations and private research facilities on how to develop the three industries.
Piles of broken bricks and mortar surrounded the exposed backside of Marshall Hall on Wednesday as construction began this week on the $6.86 million renovation. Marshall Hall was constructed in 1902 and later named after Professor Charles Marshall, an eminent bacteriologist at MSU.
The MSU fund-raising effort to raise $1.2 billion for the university before 2007 is ahead of schedule, campaign officials say. The Campaign for MSU moved into its five year public phase in September 2002.
Venus will do something today it has not done in more than a century - it will line up exactly against the sun this morning, creating a black dot only visible through a telescope in what is called the transit of Venus.
A MSU patent on a cancer-treating drug is up and will no longer provide royalties for the university. The drug, Carboplatin, which has had a dramatic effect on the nation, was a modification of Cisplatin, a cancer-treatment drug also discovered by MSU researchers Barnett Rosenberg, Loretta Van Camp and Thomas Krigas in the 1960s.
Because of their research and studies, two MSU graduate research students are getting the chance to mingle with Nobel Prize winners in Germany. Chemical engineering graduate student Dina Eldin and physical chemistry graduate student Deborah Davies, who are both working toward their doctorate degrees, will spend five days in Lindau, Germany with 498 other International graduate students and 58 American students at the 54th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students.
An associate professor in Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs School said he is hoping he can use a grant of more than $255,000 to transform a computer program about evolution into a teaching tool to show students how the process works. Robert Pennock will use funds he received from the National Science Foundation to create a new interface for the existing program to make it more visually stimulating and easier to understand.
The idea of sharing and downloading music in 1995 was unheard of. In 2025, however, file sharing, particularly that of Napster, has almost destroyed the record industry, so the band Metallica sends a machine back to 1995 to kill the fictitious creator of Napster, Don O'Conner.
There are thousands of ways to say thank you - cards, flowers, flying a flag 7,000 miles away in the middle of Afghanistan. The latter was the choice of U.S.