Former MSU women’s basketball center Lauren Aitch is now the founder and CEO of two companies — Lady Aitch Designs, which creates suits for women, and Our Own, which creates undershirts for public service workers such as police officers, fire fighters and military personnel.
MSU experts discussed potential student outlooks in years to come on Tuesday at the Brave New Workplace: The Next Careers? panel. BA The event was a part of a series of panels called Sharper Focus/Wider Lens, said human resources and labor relations associate professor John Beck, the Honors College professor in charge of the events. He said panels are a way to get people from different areas of study together to discuss important issues.
There was a little something for everybody to do at the University Activities Board (UAB) Poké Pizza Party held at the International Center Sept. 23. Both avid Pokémon Go players and those who just remember the show from their childhood attended, like friends Meghan Patero and Dhatri Nandyala.
Taking their voices from the stage to the big screen, the Accafellas, an all-male a capella group at MSU, performed on Morning Express with Robin Meade on Sept. 23. Though the group was founded in 1996, this is the first time they’ve sung for a popular TV program.
MSUnicyclers: a new MSU club that’s taking over campus one wheel at a time. That’s the legacy environmental studies and sustainability junior Evan Fischer said he hopes to create with the club he helped cofound in the spring of 2016. Although he and current Lansing Community College emergency medical technician student Miranda Lieblein, had the idea in fall last year, it took them a while to get the ball rolling he said. Both students participated in the MSU Outdoors Club at the time, after those meetings they would go in the basement of IM West and practice their unicycling skills.
Despite the pitch-black sky, discouraging 5:45 a.m. flashing on nearby clocks and the 35-pound backpacks tugging on their shoulders, each cadet proudly and without hesitation went to attention as soon as the flag was raised. MSU’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, meets three times a week to practice road marches, a three-mile march around campus. Sept. 21 was the first time many of the newest recruits would perform a road march. Mastering this skill is crucial to one’s success in the program and in the military as well.
Stargardt’s disease: “The most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration. The progressive vision loss associated with Stargardt disease is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells in the central portion of the retina called the macula,” according to blindness.org. In short, Stargardt’s disease decreases the sight of the carrier and makes their central vision progressively more blurry and distorted.
When Arturo Santa Cruz came to East Lansing in 1976, he had a dream of starting a restaurant unlike any other in the area--Mexican cuisine.
MSU alumna and 2016 gold medal Olympian, Emily Regan, is back in East Lansing to be recognized at Saturday's football game against the Wisconsin Badgers.
MSU has resources throughout campus to fit different student needs. However, there is always room for improvement, some MSU students said.
After leaving MSU 20 years ago without a degree to begin her career and now facing a deadly autoimmune disease, journalism senior Erin Kotecki re-enrolled at MSU online to finish what she started..
Vivid flashing lights and the cast of light through a prism are taken for granite each day. However, for doctoral student Henry Busby, those colors might as well be the dark side of the moon. Visually impaired because of a disease called achromatopsia, Busby's field of vision is subdued more than the average person.
Stress barreling down on students and faculty, associate professor Robert LaDuca has found a new way to help relieve stress and help students better connect with their class material. Memes, pictures with texts to invoke a comedic response, help with the stress of college, LaDuca said. LaDuca believes that people learn better with a laugh on their face and will enjoy life the more they laugh.
Tickets for one of the biggest Broadway plays, "Wicked," have just gone on sale and can be purchased on the Wharton Center’s website or by calling 1-800-WHARTON.
Being a stranger in a new place can be scary, especially for people who don’t speak the language, don’t know anyone and don’t know where they’ll be sleeping that night. Those are the struggles many refugees face, Jennifer Rumler, managing director of the sales leadership minor and also the faculty lead for the Made in Italy Study Abroad program, said.
Just like the links of a sturdy chain, When Queens Link Up, women of different backgrounds come together and support one another, while working to reach their full potential.
Briefly ditching the cameras for the classroom, Emmy-Award winner Timothy Busfield joined the MSU staff as an artist-in-residence, sharing his professional knowledge with young filmmakers. Born and raised in East Lansing, Busfield has always had a strong personal connection to the city and to MSU.
When neuroscience freshman Keilyn Broussard woke up on Sept. 10, she had some expectations for the day, she said. Those expectations were that she would be exposed to art, have the chance to get food and that she would have the chance to make friends, she said. Her plan for meeting all of these expectations was to go to the third annual CreativeCollaboration at the Wharton Center, held from noon to 4 p.m.
