Two cats are staying with a College of Veterinary Medicine assistant professor who was charged with neglecting some of her 19 cats and dogs after a December search of her home found the animals living in their own feces.
In light of the new year, Fred Poston has returned to a college and field of academia he has grown up with, worked in and has previously ran — the field of agriculture.
In addition to the physical preparations for Army life, the Spartan Battalion is adding academic ones to its list. For the first time this semester, the Army ROTC program put a defense studies minor into place, which is meant to prepare students in a range of studies for a career affiliated with the military.
When music education professor Cynthia Taggart heard university professors have the least stressful jobs of any career; it made her laugh. “If professors do what the university expects of them, then the job is highly stressful,” Taggart said. “(Professors) are trying to balance our own creative scholarship with our commitment to students.”
The Steering Committee, a group of administrators and campus and faculty committee leaders, met Tuesday to discuss procedural and academic happenings at MSU.
Even though East Lansing is more than 700 miles away from Newtown, Conn., the location of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, MSU students and local organizations in East Lansing have been reflecting on the tragedy.
Last semester, people inside and outside the MSU community learned about everything — from cheese to ballroom dancing — through more than 75 Alumni Lifelong Education/Evening College noncredit courses. This semester, program changes have knocked that number down to four, a trend that might continue next fall, a program official said.
When Tom Izzo tried to recall the Big Ten’s winningest coaches, his memory stopped after two — Gene Keady and Bob Knight. The legendary former Purdue and Indiana basketball head coaches, respectively, have led the Big Ten in wins for the better part of a decade, but it wasn’t until moments before the MSU men’s basketball team took on Purdue on Saturday that Izzo learned about the next man in line.
Following another weekend and another heavy loss for the MSU hockey team, Tom Anastos said they had to do some major soul-searching — and for the head coach that meant watching the game “over and over and over again.”
With the start of the 2013 MSU gymnastics season just days away, excitement is buzzing throughout the young and talented Spartan team. The excitement for this season is increased because of the success of the gold-medal-winning USA gymnastics team in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
“It’s a great museum so far. Over the years they can put more stuff in, make it bigger.” Mohamed Esa, physiology sophomore
The MSU swimming and diving team returns to action this weekend after a training trip to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. in December.
Men’s tennis and women’s gymnastics both get their spring seasons underway this weekend with competition at home.
I first ventured into the mirrored, angular walls of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on a chilly day in the middle of December.
When a national tragedy occurs, there are some responses that seem appropriate and others that don’t.
The first time partaking in the process, it can seem like a scam.
While many students lazed immobile on living room couches eating long-awaited homemade food, Michigan lawmakers spent their break hashing out controversial bills that could affect college-aged students.
Within the hidden woodlands of MSU’s campus lies a virtually untouched resource: fishing. When the snow melts this spring, MSU students and community members finally will be able to let their fishing lines fly and cast away from the banks of the Red Cedar River— something the university had previously banned in a 1960s ordinance.
College of Veterinary Medicine assistant professor Patricia Schenck was charged in December with felony neglect of an animal, university spokesman Kent Cassella confirmed Monday.
It’s been established Gary Harris sprained his left shoulder in a November game against Boise State. However, head coach Tom Izzo revealed at his press conference Monday the freshman guard has been dealing with an additional shoulder injury.