Using a $4.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a research team in MSU’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology wants to continue its research on plant evolution and metabolism using cultivated and wild tomato species.
For many seniors and disabled people in the Lansing area, Greater Lansing Meals-On-Wheels volunteers might be the only smiling face they see all day.
Neil Carter had heard of Spartan Sagas, and he was thrilled when he was asked to be the subject of one.
Right now, humanity is confronted with a problem — well actually it’s just my problem. With graduation fast approaching — and due dates looming — I feel ever-increasing pressure to refrain from doing anything. Why is it when we are so close to the finish line we want to slow down?
With Earth Day come and gone, some still might be in the mood to help the Earth and their community (or assuage their guilt over contributing to the current state of the environment as a whole).
Stress is in the air. And whether it’s a massive final paper to write, a 200-point exam to conquer or an achingly long presentation to give, finals week likely is the culprit. Of the countless coffee shops and lounges on campus, one well-known study hot spot for dedicated and Facebook-addicted students alike is the Main Library.
MSU (24-12) plays a home-and-home series with the Eastern Michigan (24-15). The first game is at 3 p.m. today at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field, and the second game is in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Wednesday.
Hosting Central Michigan 4 p.m. on Tuesday and a doubleheader against Oakland starting 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the Spartans (21-20 overall, 3-9 Big Ten) will look to get back on the winning track during their conference break.
MSU hockey head coach Tom Anastos completed his coaching staff Monday by announcing the hiring of two new assistant coaches, while retaining assistant coach Tom Newton and video coordinator Adam Nightingale.
Recently-hired hockey head coach Tom Anastos announced his coaching staff Monday, retaining two coaches while adding two former MSU players.
Identifying herself as a member of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender, or LBGT, community might have been challenging at times for Krista Rowe, but speaking about her belief in God never presented itself as a burden.
After placing second in the Big Ten Championships each of the past three seasons, the MSU women’s golf team knew placing first would require outstanding execution down the stretch to capture its second championship in five seasons. Junior Lindsey Solberg birdied three of the final four holes, and freshmen Allyssa Ferrell and Christine Meier came up big down the stretch to lead the Spartans back from a late five-stroke deficit Sunday.
With the recent Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, requests by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for faculty and staff email, members of academic governance realized some MSU faculty and staff are not fully aware of transparency policies.
A new program launching this year at MSU will allow graduating seniors to be placed in Michigan high schools as college advisers. The Michigan College Advising Corps — a branch of the National College Advising Corps — launched last year as a pilot program at the University of Michigan.
A 23-year-old former student reported his cell phone allegedly was stolen between 1:30-3:30 p.m. April 19 at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building, MSU police Sgt.
Although she doesn’t attend church, Easter still is an important holiday to Lauren Barszewski— it is an opportunity to spend time with family, a rare occurrence for the advertising junior since going to college.
Students and community members were given the opportunity to explore campus’ natural areas in search of reptiles, amphibians and other wildlife species from Saturday morning and afternoon during the sixth annual MSU Bioblitz and Herp Survey event.
At an MSU archaeology field school last summer, Chris Stawski helped lead a team of archaeology students to uncover evidence that MSU students of 100 years ago are very similar to ones today — finding a trash pit on campus dating from the late 1800s that contained everything from a pocketknife to discarded inkwells to clay smoking pipes.
Car guys and fraternity brothers combined their horsepower Saturday to host the first MSU Racing Club Spring Car Show.
Psychology senior LaShonda Windham was a sophomore in college when she first began to identify as an LBGT individual. And she couldn’t have done it without MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community.