Lindsay Yax has no doubt she will be able to get a job after graduation. Although the economy still isn’t quite the way it was five years ago, the Lansing unemployment rate has decreased during the past year from 8.8 percent in to 7.4 percent from January 2011-2012.
A local Ingham County township could transform its waste into a fuel source to power part of MSU’s campus if Delhi Township residents approve a bond later this spring.
A local Ingham County township could transform its waste into a fuel source to power part of MSU’s campus if Delhi Township residents approve a bond later this spring.
Just more than a year ago, MSU officials created a committee to explore sustainable energy at MSU and move toward renewable energy efforts.
In the midst of an eight-game home stand, the MSU baseball team hosts its first midweek game of the season at 3:05 p.m. Tuesday at Kobs Field at McLane Baseball Stadium.
After seven consecutive weekends of traveling around the country from Florida to California and finishing in West Lafayette, Ind., this weekend, the MSU softball team is exhausted, and it showed when the team was swept by Purdue in a three-game series.
The MSU gymnastics team’s season has been extended by another couple of weeks as the Spartans earned a berth to NCAA Regionals. MSU will travel to Auburn and compete on April 7 as the No. 6 seed, along with in-state rival No. 4-seed Michigan.
On Feb. 8, Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to introduce the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act (H.R. 3974). This SANE Act would cut $100 billion from the U.S. nuclear weapons budget over the next 10 years.
With the looming summer break coming, I finally sat down and took a closer look at the world around me and wondered why we as Americans have found ourselves in the place we now stand.
New data recently was released regarding the new health care plan implemented this year by MSU, and the methods of payment students are using is concerning.
Beginning in the fall, MSU is launching a new doctorate program for school administrators designed to help overcome current shortfalls in Michigan education.
The latest production to come to Wharton Center combines entertainment with education for a two-for-one experience. The new Broadway musical “Memphis” will open at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall and run until Sunday.
Although I’ve formed great friendships here, some of my favorite weekends at MSU so far have been when my close friends from home come to visit. After seeing the same set of faces every day, it’s refreshing to catch up with those who you haven’t seen in months. The problem is, I always seem to spend an unnecessarily large amount of money on such weekend adventures.
Alexandra Pew, an 18-year-old Ann Arbor resident who fell from the sixth floor of North Case Hall early Sunday morning, is now in critical condition, a hospital spokesman confirmed.
Phoenix — Draymond Green has played his last game as a Spartan, and the MSU men’s basketball team’s loss in the Sweet 16 is the first time head coach Tom Izzo failed to get a No. 1 seed to the Final Four.
Alexandra Pew, an 18-year-old high school student from Ann Arbor, fell from a sixth-floor window of North Case Hall about 3 a.m. Sunday morning, according to police and student reports.
Although nearly 20 couch fires quickly were set across the city, streets mostly were calm later in the night as police officers and firefighters came prepared to fight fires and chaos on Thursday after the men’s basketball team was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament.
Before students take the stage and receive their diplomas this spring, they need to find the right gear. With the arrival of graduation season, East Lansing and MSU businesses are stocking the shelves to prepare for one of the busiest times of the year, as students by the dozens stop in to pick up caps and gowns this spring.
An unseasonably warm March has helped boost business for some restaurants as MSU students and East Lansing residents flock to outdoor patios. This month’s weather has been “unprecedented,” said T.J. Turnage, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
During biochemistry professor Rawle Hollingsworth’s nearly 30 years at MSU, Tom Sharkey, chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department, remembers having many conversations with him during casual run-ins outside the office. One encounter sticks out in Sharkey’s mind, who said he has a strong memory of listening to Hollingsworth explain carbohydrate involvement in blood types one day in the parking lot.