With strike pads, golf clubs and birdies in hand, young athletes in the Lansing area are taking up a new sport. Meridian Township Parks and Recreation is hosting their first four BirdieBall events, each one at a different park, with North Meridian Road Park hosting the Meridian Open Championship on Monday.
A decision at tomorrow’s East Lansing City Council meeting could revitalize the underused buildings on the west side of downtown. After a summer of deliberation, the city council is set to recommend either DTN Management Co. or Lurvey White Ventures as the private development partner for the Park District project, formerly known as City Center II.
The annual Big Ten Emergency Managers conference, entitled “2013 Big Ten Emergency Managers Conference, Strategic Partnerships in Emergency Planning,” kicked off this morning at the Henry Executive Center.
In 1985, a handful of Lansing musicians embodying a passion for jazz and a dream of a more lively Old Town Lansing envisioned an event that would bring the twang, rhythm and liveliness to a town that lacked excitement.
Whole Foods Market, the eighth-largest food and drug store in the U.S., will open a new location in the East Lansing area in 2015. Founded in Austin, Texas in 1980, with a staff of 19 people, Whole Foods will build its newest Michigan location on East Grand River Avenue, engulfing the space currently home to Velocipede Peddler, 2758 E.
The MSU football team opened its fall camp with the first practice on Saturday, and head coach Mark Dantonio was quick to admit that the play of his quarterbacks immediately jumped out to him. “You watch your quarterbacks throw,” Dantonio said.
After remaining on the agenda for nearly five years, plans for MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, have begun to move forward. The facility initially was put under review by the U.S.
In the second day of the 2013 World Dwarf Games, athletes competed in badminton singles, team boccia and swimming. The World Dwarf Games allows athletes with dwarfism or disproportionate dysplasia the opportunity to compete against and meet more than 400 athletes from across the world. For Sri Lanka’s badminton singles gold medalist Randika Cooray, the games are an opportunity to escape the cruelties of the real world and be in a world for a week in which she isn’t laughed or stared at. “It’s phenomenal – meeting people and knowing they are going through the same aches and pains that I am,” Cooray said. Cooray joked that she thought a group of children playing football was going to laugh at her when she walked by them the other day.
The annual International Bath Tub Races held in Bath, Mich., is much more than a series of tubs on wheels flying down Main Street. For Bath residents, it’s war. The bath tub races, one event out of the many during the Bath Days Festival, was held Saturday, drawing a crowd of 2,000-3,000 spectators. JD Larner, MC for the event and a lifelong Bath resident, said the races, a beloved Bath tradition, began in the early 1980s. There are a few rules as to what a tub used in the race can feature.
Few things get blood pumping like going from zero to 60 miles per hour in less than five seconds. MSU’s Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, Formula Racing Team is winding down its successful season and gearing up for next year.
For years, when policymakers were asked how they would protect the public, the answer was to put more people behind bars. Although this policy applied to the entire nation, Michigan saw the effects more than most states. The effect was an explosion in prison populations and, in turn, an explosion in the budget for correctional facilities, MSU economics professor Charles Ballard said.
From Friday night football games, to homecoming dances, to simply schmoozing with friends, high school is remembered by most with a certain nostalgic aura. But Michigan might see significantly less students trekking across gymnasiums to receive their diplomas, according to research from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, or WICHE. The report, Knocking at the College Door, details shifts in graduation rates state by state, placing Michigan in the dwindling product category, saying the state is expected to lose 15 percent or more high school graduates in the near future.
Last week, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon signed an open letter to Congress and President Barack Obama, taking a stand against federal funding cuts geared toward higher education and their research ventures. Her mission? To end an innovation deficit. To fill a gap between what research does and what it can do.
The NSA scandal from earlier this summer still has people outraged.
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a timeline and cost for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at MSU, a show of confidence in what the project ultimately will yield for the campus and the state of Michigan.
Four years of hopes, dreams and hardwork met on track and field Saturday at MSU for the first day of the World Dwarf Games. “It’s so relieving everyone’s in the same position all the time,” Great Britain competitor Ollie Clarke joked.
MSU football announced the hiring of Curtis Blackwell as its director of college advancement and performance camp/director today in a press release.
MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy to proceed with the project on Friday morning.
Two MSU researchers quashed a spin on evolutionary game theory from 2012 that held coercion as a more favorable action than cooperation. “In an evolutionary setting, these zero determinant strategies (those using coercion) will go extinct,” said Christoph Adami, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics.
Whole Foods Market has announced plans to open an East Lansing establishment in 2015.