Volunteers from East Lansing’s Environmental Stewardship Program have one focus: preserving and improving the city’s public parks. Saturday the group will be planting seedlings at Hawk Nest Park, 3750 Kiskadee Dr., a newly established park.
For some MSU students, the opportunity to travel abroad is just out of reach, but for journalism junior Chloe Hill, her dreams of visiting another country are being realized.
After the NCAA Opening Rounds this weekend, the MSU track and field team will advance seven athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, which will be held June 8 in Des Moines, Iowa.
With all the anticipation in an emotional weekend, the MSU rowing team harnessed its excitement through its final races Sunday, ultimately finishing seventh as a team in Gold River, Calif. Head coach Matt Weise said the Spartans capitalized on every strength they had for the best possible finish against the top 16 teams in the nation.
East Lansing fire officials have reported no major damage in the area after Sunday night’s severe weather.
Tornado Warning for Ingham County is in effect until 5:45 p.m.
With one swing of the bat, the MSU baseball team saw a Big Ten Tournament championship violently ripped from its fingers.
The MSU baseball team lives to play one more game in the Big Ten Tournament, as the Spartans beat Minnesota and take on Illinois tonight.
For the No. 2 seeded Spartan baseball team (35-20 overall, 16-10 Big Ten), the message is clear headed into Saturday’s matchup with Minnesota. After falling out of the winner’s bracket on Friday with a loss to top-seeded Illinois, MSU will meet the No. 6-seeded Golden Gophers at 3:35 p.m. today at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio.
Junior pitcher Tony Bucciferro couldn’t match his complete game effort of a week ago, as he battled a high pitch count combined with high-powered No. 1-seeded Illinois (27-25 overall, 16-9 Big Ten) offense Friday as the No. 2-seeded MSU baseball team (35-20, 16-10) fell, 4-1. Bucciferro would allow eight hits over six and ? innings to drop his season record to 8-3.
The No. 2-seeded MSU baseball team (35-19 overall, 16-9 Big Ten) shook off a two hour and 15 minute rain delay and used a collaborative hitting effort to rally behind senior pitcher Kurt Wunderlich to defeat Purdue, 7-1. With the win Thursday, MSU remains undefeated against the Boilermakers on the year, earlier sweeping them in three games during the first weekend in May.
The last two days, the Lansing area has been pelted with rain, accounting for one of the rainiest springs in the region’s history. There has been 12.81 inches of rain since March, making this currently the seventh rainiest spring in the history of Lansing.
More than 1.1 million Michiganians are projected to hit the road over the Memorial Day weekend, a slight increase from last year, according to AAA Michigan.
The Michigan Democratic Party submitted a map this week to the state Senate Redistricting Committee with its recommendation for how redistricting lines should be redrawn by the Republican-led Legislature.
A 32-year-old female student called police after her husband allegedly damaged their front door between 8:40 p.m.
The Council Of Graduate Students, or COGS, has teamed up with MSU’s Culinary Services and three other on-campus organizations to offer support for tsunami and earthquake relief efforts in Japan.
In an effort to expand its academic reach abroad, MSU will begin offering a new master’s program in public health this fall at its campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to increase academic involvement for students in the Middle East.
As the MSU rowing team makes its fourth consecutive NCAA National Championship Regatta appearance — the 13th in the last 14 seasons — head coach Matt Weise believes his team is even more prepared than it has been in the past.
MSU Alumni John Heffern has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Armenia.
According to a recent study in Obesity, a research journal, the effects of eating a breakfast rich in protein are felt not only in the stomach but in the brain as well.