Get everyone together on MSU’s campus — all the students, faculty and staff — and the campus population is equal to a city the size of Battle Creek, Mich.
Nick Swardson will perform a stand-up comedy act at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Wharton Center. Student tickets for the Residence Halls Association-sponsored event cost $15, while general admission tickets cost $25.
Now that the 2010 Census results have been released; let the redistricting games begin! Michigan’s population drastically has changed since the last census, and the state’s redistricting will be a challenge because of it.
Students representing public universities from across Michigan gathered to voice their frustration with the state of higher education funding Thursday at the Capitol building, 100 N. Capitol Ave., in Lansing.
The MSU Women’s Resource Center, or WRC, hosted the sixth annual MSU Women’s Health Fair on Thursday in the Union to educate women and increase knowledge about personal health.
Police officers, firefighters, city officials and members of the East Lansing and MSU communities filled the seats and lined the walls of Courtroom 2 in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court Thursday afternoon to witness the formal swearing-in of Juli Liebler as East Lansing’s new police chief.
This weekend, about 500 high schoolers from multiple states will come to MSU for one main purpose: saving the world through compromise.
This weekend, 140 cadets in MSU’s ROTC program will train outside the classroom at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Mich., to conduct drills on problem solving, land navigation and weapons training before taking on larger tasks. The training event, called the Michigan Cluster Field Exercise, will take place alongside more than 600 cadets attending universities including Central Michigan University, Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan, said Bill Lukaskiewicz, a retired lieutenant colonel who is an instructor with ROTC.
Despite a second-round exit in the NCAA Tournament, the MSU women’s basketball had a historic season and that can be built on.
After 15 games in the South, the MSU baseball team is back in Michigan, to face Michigan.
When it comes to research happening on campus, doctoral student Christina Campbell knows all about the research being done in the psychology department.
Adding to the variety of dining options, students have yet another choice. On March 21, a new kosher option was made available at Wilson Hall, said Samuel Appel, president of the Jewish Student Union.
As a native of Nepal, Neelima Wagley wanted to do something to aid the nation where she was born and raised. Following the example of her mother, who worked with global humanitarian organization UNICEF, the psychology sophomore joined UNICEF@MSU, a campus organization that works to educate and fundraise for children across the world.
Members of RHA, the Residence Halls Association, elected Kelcey Gapske to serve as vice president for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Less than three weeks after the MSU hockey team’s season came to a close, MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis introduced former CCHA Commissioner Tom Anastos as the program’s new head coach Wednesday. Anastos, 47, served as commissioner of the CCHA for the past 13 years, played under former MSU hockey coach Ron Mason from 1981-85 and served as an assistant to Mason from 1990-92.
Rick Comley had 783 wins as a college hockey coach. Ron Mason had 924 wins. Amo Bessone had 367 wins at MSU. Tom Anastos, MSU’s newest hockey head coach, is undefeated.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine will end its partnerships with two Kalamazoo hospitals once Western Michigan University newly announced medical school is completed in coming years. MSU has had medical student training programs with Bronson Methodist Hospital and Borgess Medical Center for about 40 years, said Aron Sousa, senior associate dean for academic affairs for the College of Human Medicine. “We knew this was on the horizon,” he said.
State lawmakers now have access to detailed census data following their release this week, marking the next step in the process of redrawing district lines to reflect Michigan’s shrinking population. With the state’s overall population declining by about 54,000 and a massive population shift of more than 237,000 people out of Detroit, university and local experts say the process likely will change Michigan’s political landscape significantly. The population loss cost Michigan one of its seats in the U.S.
Two incidents, disorderly conduct and home invasion, allegedly occurred Wednesday in Armstrong Hall, according to a release from MSU police. At 6:30 a.m., an 18-year-old student saw a man standing in her doorway, who then fled.
Wednesday’s cold and rainy weather notwithstanding, the newly opened restaurant What Up Dawg?, 317 M.A.C. Ave., served as the host to Sigma Chi’s Pre-Derby Days Coney Contest.