Sitting at a bank of monitors, an operator stares at his control panels. The monitors display dot graphs and a sterile white row of panels bristle with dials, switches and keys that the technician toggles and presses to get a stream of charged nuclear particles running again.
Hip-hop lover Jamil Buie stood on Toronto’s club-lined Younge Street one Sunday afternoon in early August, soaking in the music and the culture that he loves. “There’s people here from all over the planet,” the 1999 MSU graduate described over the telephone.
MSU could attract more than proteins and molecules if all goes as planned.Spartan leaders hope to make campus home to one of the largest magnetic spectrometers in the United States.“We also hope it will attract faculty,” said Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, co-director of the Center for Structural Biology.The machine, a 900-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, is set to be paid for by the Life Sciences Corridor.Corridor officials approved the program’s budget for the this year, including $4.5 million for the instrument, in June.The Life Sciences Corridor is a grant program initiated in 1999 to spend more that $1 billion on biochemistry projects during a span of 20 years.The program links the research efforts of Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University and is funded by part of the state’s tobacco settlement money.The new magnetic instrument will join a team of eight others.
After fours years of working numerous jobs, attending classes and parenting, balancing life’s curveballs with career goals is something MSU advertising senior Rick VanHouse has found ways to do.
The Wharton Center’s 20th Anniversary Season is quickly approaching and patrons have the opportunity to purchase individual tickets beginning Aug.
As families trailed the band Bahamas Junkanoo parading down Albert Avenue in downtown East Lansing, the sounds of traditional folk musicians had many scuffling for seats in the grass to listen.
In the wake of the National Folk Festival, the Lansing community is ready to unveil the Great Lakes Folk Festival.For the past three years, the National Folk Festival called East Lansing home, but the festival has since moved on to Bangor, Maine.
Only a man with a soul deeply rooted in both America’s spirit and the sweat and toil of his fellow Americans could, for 30 years, succeed at poignantly capturing the emotions of a changing nation in his lyrics.
After you’ve heard one gangster rapper you’ve heard them all some would think, but that’s not so.
Kalamazoo - There seems to be some confusion as to who or what Domestic Problems is. When I told a co-worker I was going to see Domestic Problems in Kalamazoo, she thought I was going to Kalamazoo to do a story on spousal abuse.
Lansing’s black community is gearing up for food fun and excitement at the 3rd annual African-American Parade and Family Reunion Picnic on Aug 3. “It’s a family-filled celebration of the African-American culture and we are expecting thousands to attend this year,” said State Rep.
The fair is held at the Ingham County Fairgrounds, 700 E. Ash St. in Mason, and boasts numerous activities for families to enjoy.
The fetus in a jar that brought controversy to MSU a few years ago now is taking it all in stride.“Fetus-X”, the comic created by Eric Millikin and Casey Sorrow that once ran in The State News, has picked up momentum and expanded beyond being a college comic.Despite the inherent controversy involved with having the main character as a human fetus in a jar, “Fetus-X” was chosen by online comic “Goats” to be a featured guest during its “Goats Guest Week” on July 24.
Remix albums are all the rage among rappers and hard-rockers these days, but usually prove to be complete flop or an album with only one or two decent songs. And to make a remix a band should have a few albums to its name to have enough good songs to actually remix. So a band has got to have a lot of guts to remix its debut album and put it out two years later.
Many people have grabbed a book, curled up in a favorite spot and escaped reality just for a moment this summer. Whether it’s chasing down “The Bachelor” with Carly Phillips or preparing for the end of the world with the “Left Behind” series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, there have been several good reads keeping people occupied this summer. “‘The New York Times Best Seller Lists’ always sell well,” said Dan Chenoweth, store clerk at Schuler Books & Music in Okemos’ Meridian Mall.
One is an international man of mystery, the other has a license to kill. One carries a gun, the other uses a Swedish-made penis-enlarging pump. Hollywood’s two most famous spies, Austin Powers and James Bond, are at it again.
What can I say, it’s Austin Powers. You know you’ll laugh, your stomach will churn and then you’ll laugh again. “Austin Powers in Goldmember” doesn’t capture the same hysterical humor of 1997’s “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,”but what sequel ever does? “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” wasn’t as funny as the first either, but it was good.
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Sometimes a newcomer has the star power to grab people’s attention with something unique and entertaining.
Lansing - As local car-lovers gathered Saturday to exhibit unique cars with colorful paint jobs, classic styles and elaborate sound systems, many found it enjoyable, and more competitive than expected. AutoZone, 4725 S.