Being judged because of his major is a fact of life for English and secondary education senior Eric Bowers. As a man in the College of Education, Bowers is a minority in one of the most female-dominated colleges on campus.
The MSU Board of Trustees is expected to vote on an authorization to plan for construction on a new $40 million Bio Engineering Facility at its Friday meeting.
As the rain came Wednesday evening, Terry Jones’ supporters left him high and dry.
Overall donations to the university fell by about 10 percent during the 2010-11 fiscal year, university officials said Wednesday.
An 18-year-old male student reported his bike was stolen between 4 p.m. Aug. 29 and 10:30 a.m. Aug. 30, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
At the end of Michigan Avenue, a street where slews of dispensary storefronts stand closed and dark, more than 1,000 people toting colorful signs gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon to protest a recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling that made commercial sales of medical marijuana illegal.
Forty-five engineering industry leaders have committed to doubling the amount of engineering internships available to students in 2012, according to a release from The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Professional writing senior Kevin Marheine stopped by the Earn, Learn and Intern Fair on Wednesday afternoon to find a company where he could get some real-world experience without some of the consequences of a full-time job.
Students preparing to take the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE — an exam required for admission to most graduate schools — are among the first to experience the most drastic changes made to the exam in its history.
About 18 members of MSU’s Graduate Employees Union, or GEU, are paying less for classes this semester through a new 100-credit tuition pool, which offers a waiver of some additional tuition costs.
The East Lansing Police Department appointed two new lieutenants at Tuesday night’s East Lansing City Council meeting.
When employees of Dublin Square Irish Pub found out their establishment made Nightclub & Bar Magazine’s Next 50 list, they thought it might be a hoax.
Senior guard Joel Foreman said Tuesday contrary to popular belief, the greatest amount of learning for the No. 17 MSU football team won’t come from training camp but will come between game one and game two.
Okemos resident Ella Sackett and her family moved out of Spartan Village Apartments a few years ago, but she still makes the trip to East Lansing to bring her youngest child to Red Cedar Elementary.
East Lansing and national retailers now have an easier route to offer money-saving deals to MSU students, fans and alumni. A new mobile application called dibbitt was released last Friday in time for the football season.
Author Rita Comstock hopes to highlight an MSU legend — the university’s “original music man” — with the release of her new book tomorrow.
With the premiere of “Footloose” approaching and dozens of movie remakes at the box office in the past few years, I can’t help but notice that Hollywood has been taking lessons from the television industry recently — movie producers have resorted to reruns.
MSU has the nation’s largest on-campus coal plant, and it’s possible a plan could be signed this year to move us to 100 percent renewable energy — that is if MSU’s Board of Trustees will stand with the nearly 6,000 student petitions, (1 out of 10 students on campus); faculty and East Lansing community members who support a 100% renewable energy future.
I don’t mind that Sarah Palin thinks Russia can be seen from her house in Alaska. It didn’t bother me when she thought North Korea is our ally in an interview about our nation’s foreign policy.
According to a report issued by the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, financial assistance from MSU on average totaled 42 percent of a student’s tuition in 2009-10. In contrast, the average financial aid Michigan universities offered in 2010 was 50.5 percent of a student’s tuition.