When “Academically Adrift,” a book examining the limited learning of students in their first two years of college, was released in January, it forced some students and professors to take a closer look at learning.
Proposed improvements to older parking structures downtown and the city’s water infrastructure likely will be discussed by the East Lansing City Council at its 7 p.m.
Changes are on the horizon for student health insurance beginning in the fall. Students on the MSU student health insurance base plan will see an increase in the amount of maximum health coverage from $50,000 to $250,000 starting in fall 2011, said Brent Bowditch, assistant vice president of human resources.
When Michael Zaroukian was a medical student at MSU in the 1970s and ‘80s, he was aware the information doctors needed to treat their patients most effectively often wasn’t easily accessible.
To Kaylin Krogol, it’s never too soon to pursue a lifestyle to benefit a healthy heart.
If you walked past the rock on Farm Lane this past Saturday, you might have wondered what people were doing running around with brooms and throwing balls at each another.
A protest at the rock on Farm Lane on Monday sought to increase awareness of the current bloodshed in Libya.
A more than 40-year-old partnership between MSU and a Saginaw, Mich., health alliance will end this summer, university officials said Monday.
MSU Museum and MSU Police officials hope to sniff out a suspect in the case of a missing anteater.
After a unanimous vote by the MSU Board of Trustees at its February meeting, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of French, Classics and Italian have been merged together to reform the Department of Romance and Classical Languages.
The fourth annual Strengthening the Pipeline: The Need for Diversity in STEM Fields forum scheduled for tonight hopes to strengthen the number of minority students in graduate schools and professional outlets.
An unlikely duo of martial arts and agriculture brought together in Flint, Mich., became the inspiration for an MSU-produced documentary that will be featured later today during an on-campus screening.
It all began with one aluminum tube. Ilan Azriel was in a hardware store searching for materials to jump-start a production idea when a small aluminum tube fell from one of the shelves. Azriel picked up the tube and, after observing its movement, decided to create “The Aluminum Show” on this concept, said David Azulay, the show’s executive producer and CEO.Now, less than a decade after dreaming up the idea, Azriel’s show is onstage on a four-month U.S. tour, which includes a stop at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
The University Activities Board, or UAB, will sponsor an advance screening of the film, “Paul,” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Room 319 of the Union.
Perspective2 will sponsor the “Old Town Stomp,” from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday at Perspective2, 319 E. Grand River Ave., in Lansing.
The College of Music will celebrate classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Everything Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Music Building Auditorium.
There are nearly as many similarities as differences when it comes to comparing the two student ballroom dance organizations on campus — but the differences are important if you ask Nick Mizesko. Mizesko, a journalism junior and president of the newly established Spartan Ballroom Dance Team, said his organization reaches for different goals than the original ballroom dance organization on campus, the MSU Ballroom Dance Team.
Gov. Rick Snyder’s state budget proposal contained some ideas worth considering and several that should sound alarm bells for those concerned about Michigan’s future: a $222 million cut to colleges and universities; a $100 million cut to revenue sharing, which funds essential services provided by communities; and a $470 per-pupil cut to K-12 educati
I recently had the opportunity to attend the teach-in panel on the uprisings throughout North Africa and the Middle East hosted by the Arab Cultural Society. The panel featured several professors from various colleges at MSU.