A bleak outlook lies ahead for current and future graduate students. Because of the debt ceiling deal reached by Republicans and Democrats in Congress last week, for next year and the foreseeable future, there will be no more federally subsidized loans for graduate students.
President Barack Obama gave an address from the White House this afternoon, defending the U.S. credit reliability even as markets continued to plummet throughout the day.
A garbage truck driver was transported to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital this afternoon after he crashed into the alley parallel to Grand River Avenue near M.A.C.
When Roc Biller started driving for Spartan Yellow Cab 15 years ago, he spent most of his time driving and making runs in Lansing because drivers thought there wasn’t any money to be made in East Lansing.
With the passing of legendary MSU and NFL star Charles “Bubba” Smith, Spartan Nation has lost a deity, a Hollywood icon and a friend. Smith was found dead by a caretaker Wednesday in his Los Angeles home.
From out-of-control house parties to students urinating in the streets, Fall Welcome can mean increased crime on campus and extra hours for police officers, East Lansing police Capt.
About $2,200 in damage was done to a car parked in Lot 91, near Fee Hall, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Aug.
As the university moves forward with a master plan for campus living accommodations, a newly revamped and renovated Emmons Hall will open up to students for the first time later this month.
For the past few months, Tom March has helped collect usable school supplies left behind in desks and file cabinets from MSU’s campus.
The Office for International Students and Scholars, or OISS, is encouraging students to become a part of MSU’s global community.
We’ve all done it. At the end of the semester, as many as three different sheets of paperwork cycle the classroom or lecture hall en route to a fat envelope that some poor chap gets drafted into taking to an office somewhere, never to be seen again.
It’s extremely difficult to find a job in Michigan right now, no matter your age. But that’s not stopping one would-be MSU professor. Nicholas Spaeth, 61, filed an age discrimination complaint against the MSU College of Law in a U.S. District Court because he was denied an interview for a teaching position.
As the second basketball player to represent MSU internationally this summer, senior forward Draymond Green was selected Wednesday to play for the USA men’s team at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China.
A group of MSU professors has partnered with East Lansing-based marketing company Netvantage to begin Every Child is Yours, a program to increase awareness for volunteer opportunities in Greater Lansing. Every Child Is Yours is targeted toward presenting volunteer opportunities to the millennial generation, or those between the ages of 18-30.
An MSU professor plans to study new and improved ways of online fundraising, research that could have implications for the university’s donation and fundraising efforts. Rick Wash, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, will use a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to explore crowd funding sites — applications that provide researchers or project sponsors with an outlet to receive donations geared specifically to their project. “I look at these sites as an electronic system that matches two sides,” Wash said. Examples of popular crowd funding sites range from dating sites to job-searching outlets, but Wash said the tactic also can be applied to various forms of university and college fundraising. Using computer simulations of different funding websites, Wash plans to develop the best possible approach to crowd funding, a tactic that he eventually hopes to apply to an MSU-themed donation site. On the site, students or people associated with the university could post various projects or ideas, and interested donors could contribute funding. The method even could extend to research projects being conducted at the university. “This is actually giving power to the donor,” said the university’s director of annual giving Kathleen Deneau, when discussing the potential for crowd funding at MSU.
Alleged dog killer and graduate student Andrew Thompson will face trial in circuit court on 13 counts of animal killing, Judge Donald Allen decided Thursday.
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.