Although she didn’t always know she wanted to hold a government office, Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, always knew she wanted to be a Spartan. At MSU, she enjoyed everything from the social life to the football games to the class work. “I really kind of hit my stride at MSU — in terms of academics,” Whitmer said.
After being denied an interview for a teaching position at the MSU College of Law, a 61-year-old job applicant is citing age discrimination. Nicholas Spaeth filed an age discrimination complaint against the MSU College of Law July 28 with the U.S.
Multi-trillion dollar cuts associated with Congress’ debt ceiling solution will impact more than half of MSU’s graduate student population, and more cuts to university and student funding are likely to follow in coming months, university officials said Wednesday. The new law eliminates federally subsidized student loans for graduate students, which about 61 percent of all eligible students rely on to pay for their graduate and professional degrees, said Val Meyers, associate director of MSU’s Office of Financial Aid.
A garbage truck crashed into a landscaping truck at about 10 a.m. Monday on the intersection of Birch Road and West Shaw Lane, MSU police Sgt.
For theatre senior Erika Moul, moving into her new apartment has been a disaster. Moul is one of a number of students moving into apartments this week, a trend that will only pick up steam as the month continues. DTN Management Co. had its first move-in date on Monday, and many other apartment complexes are scheduled to open their doors in the coming weeks.
Even as health care costs at institutions across the country climb, university officials said this week that employee benefits have remained stable this year at MSU.
An East Lansing-based real estate company will be changing management hands for several of its properties for the upcoming school year.
During the past year, a nonstop series of natural disasters, political uprisings and economic devastation occurred throughout the world.
Former MSU and NFL star Charles “Bubba” Smith was found dead Wednesday in his Los Angeles home, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times and the LA County Coroner’s Office.
With the opening reception on Saturday at the East Lansing Public Library’s North Foyer Art Gallery, 950 Abbot Road, Michael McPeak, a DeWitt, Mich., resident and vice president at McPeak Media, will look to raise money to benefit Save the Children for Horn of Africa drought relief. For those who make a donation to the charity, McPeak will provide a fine art portrait sitting and digital copy of one or more images as a part of his Faces of Caring project.
Running through Saturday, the Ingham County Fair has events to enjoy while also teach young people valuable lessons.
In their zealotry to “protect” students, state lawmakers almost dealt them a body blow. Over the last two weeks, there’s been a battle going on between state lawmakers and MSU officials over the rise in MSU’s tuition rate.
East Lansing resident Ava Gonzalez celebrated her fourth birthday Tuesday night with her family, along with members of the East Lansing Police and Fire departments, at the 28th annual National Night Out. “What a great way to celebrate her birthday,” Meaghan Gonzalez, Ava’s mother, said.
A 63-year-old male university employee allegedly was driving recklessly on the loop outside Old Horticulture Building July 21 at about 8:30 a.m.
About a month ago, international relations senior Jason Webster found the contents of his glove compartment strewn across the front seats of his car. He parked outside his fraternity on Harrison Avenue the night before.
Caryl Sortwell didn’t have any first-hand experience with Parkinson’s disease when she began her research, but the relationships she’s made since then have kept her motivated to work toward a cure. Sortwell, an MSU professor in translational science and molecular medicine, is working with the school’s College of Human Medicine, Van Andel Research Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute to see if the drug Fasudil could not only deal with the symptoms of Parkinson’s, but treat the progression of the disease as well. The team’s work is being sponsored in-part by a $400,000 grant from the Michael J.
The MSU College of Engineering is moving forward with its plans to launch a new environmental engineering major this fall. Students who previously only had the opportunity to take a concentration in the field now will have the chance to earn an undergraduate degree, with very little deviation from the previous specialization’s benchmarks. “The class requirements for the concentration as opposed to the degree are really pretty similar,” said Richard Lyles, a professor and the associate chairman for undergraduate studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The university had offered graduate programs in environmental engineering for more than four decades, but new demand from employers for environmental engineers pushed them to move the undergraduate degree program forward. Increased student interest also necessitated the creation of the program. “As the demand for graduates increases, there are employers interested in hiring these people,” said Tom Voice, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who spearheaded the undergraduate degree program’s creation.
Hours before the nation’s debt was set to default, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law raising the federal debt ceiling and cutting more than $2 trillion dollars from the federal deficit — cuts that will affect student loans and financial aid and could extend further into university programs down the road. The bill easily passed through the Democrat-controlled U.S.
The 6-foot-9 former MSU women’s basketball star once again will look to make a name for herself as she is scheduled to join the Grand Valley State University volleyball team in the fall.
_Editor’s note: This is part four of an ongoing series on Charlie Waller’s struggle with cancer.