When Haslett, Mich., resident Don Kaufman remembers former MSU horticulture professor George Kessler and his wife Ezra, he remembers the most amazing couple he’s ever met.
Trust in many U.S. institutions, including banks, organized religion and public schools, is at an all-time low, according to a Gallup poll released last week.
Nearly 100 hours of labor and 500 pounds of scrap metal later, Lansing resident Troy Sica and his family walked away from Lansing’s Old Town’s annual Festival of the Moon and Festival of the Sun victorious.
The second annual charity soccer game for the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan pitted former Spartan basketball players such as Andre Hutson and Austin Thornton against gridiron alumni including Greg Jones, Eric Smith and T.J.
Earlier this month, Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, was barred from speaking in the Michigan House of Representatives after she used the word “vagina.” At this point, many people are aware of the story, but few have looked deeper into this most recent example of embarrassing, frivolous debate by lawmakers. Because of this “vagina controversy,” attention and rational thinking have been taken away from this debate and have reinterpreted reality.
Friday, the MSU Board of Trustees met and decided to increase tuition 3.5 percent for students for the 2012-13 academic year.
Friday, the MSU Board of Trustees met and decided to increase tuition 3.5 percent for students for the 2012-13 academic year.
MSU will see a tuition increase of 3.5 percent for the 2012-13 academic year. At the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, the board passed the 2012-13 budget and a tentative 2013-14 budget in the board room of the Administration building.
Born and raised in the Bronx of New York City, Intikana has taken to embracing and sharing his Borikén, or Puerto Rico, heritage through hip-hop to fellow educators and youth all over the world. Intikana lead a workshop and also performed at the Urban Literacies Institute for Transformative Teaching Conference, which came to MSU for the first time this week.
On Friday, the Board of Trustees will decide the tuition rates and budget for the 2012-13 academic year.
When Paulette Granberry Russell was in high school, she wanted to try pole vaulting but got turned away. “I remember going to the coach and expressing that was something I wanted to do, and the response at the time was ‘girls don’t pole vault,’” said Russell, director of the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives.
This weekend, a handful of former Spartans and other professional athletes young and old will make their way to campus to try their hand at soccer.
Rochell Mahaley received her Bachelor of Science in animal science at MSU and a master’s from the veterinary medical school at MSU. And now she’s back for more. Mahaley is one of 11 students involved in the second cohort of W.K. Kellogg Foundation Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows at MSU.
What started as just a few banjos in 1972 has turned into one of the most notable music shops in the Midwest.
By the end of the month, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to have a ruling on the controversial and much-debated Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010.
For Michigan native and finalist of NBC’s hit show “The Voice,” Tony Lucca, coming home is just another way to say thank you to his supporters.
Being an alumna is new to Dominique Kunz, but she already is worried about two years from now, when she may lose her student email address.
One of the first rules of hockey Sara Sherman had to learn is how to play “heads-up” hockey. You can’t focus on the puck you’re handling. You have to keep looking forward. That rule became essential to Sherman’s life in February 2010 when a traumatic brain injury changed everything. And now, through living a “heads-up” lifestyle, she has become a member of the 2012 MSU Homecoming court.
A local restaurant is looking to combat the reduced amount of business it has seen during the summer by expanding its catering service.
In the fall and spring semesters, Zhewei Jin, an international student from China, is a minority in many of her classes. But this summer, she and eleven other international students in her WRA 115 course are the majority, only noticing one student not from East Asia in her class and fewer American students on campus, the accounting freshman said.