MSU is likely to operate with about $8.2 million less in state funding in the next fiscal year should proposed cuts to higher education be signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm before the end of the week.
Two years after MSU student Katherine Brown’s family and friends woke to the news of her murder, the rock on Farm Lane has been splashed in green and yellow paint with the message “We miss you” painted below her name.
House sitting and overlay district ordinances will be further debated after the East Lansing City Council requested draft ordinances reflecting the proposed alterations at its Tuesday night work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
A moped allegedly stolen from a bike rack North Wonders Hall Saturday afternoon was found by an MSU police officer early Sunday morning, MSU police Sgt. Paul Kuchek said.
After five years of research by a collaboration of Spartan biologists, engineers and computer scientists, MSU’s BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action published its first report since opening its doors earlier this year. The study focuses on why, in a survival of the fittest state of nature, organisms help each other, said Jeff Clune, an MSU alumnus and lead author of the study. By witnessing digital evolution in motion, researchers now are able to better understand the behavior of the altruism gene.
When linguistics junior Kyle Voelker attends MSU home football games, he has no problem participating in the fanfare and the rowdiness of the student section.
A 21-year-old Adrian, Mich., man was arrested Sunday by East Lansing police for allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend with a knife.
After undergoing a successful knee arthroscopy for a small meniscus tear in his left knee Tuesday, MSU junior guard Korie Lucious is expected to be out for 2-6 weeks, according to a statement from MSU Athletic Communications.
MSU College Democrats held a watch party at 7 p.m. yesterday in Case Hall for President Barack Obama’s youth rally.
After an upset win over then-No. 6 Maryland to open the year, the MSU men’s soccer team was blown out by Georgetown. After that loss is where men’s soccer reporter Pat Evans began to see why the Spartans have what it takes to go far. Really far.
After opening Big Ten play with its fourth 1-0 victory of the season, the No. 6 MSU field hockey team is working on improving several aspects of its offensive game.
Sophomore defenseman Torey Krug was selected to the Preseason All-CCHA Second Team and junior goalie Drew Palmisano was Honorable Mention.
Rachel Miller, a music performance junior, has played the harp since she was 8 years old. Recently she earned the position as a harpist in the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, while still continuing her education at MSU.
I found some of my favorite kind of advice in The New York Times today. A bunch of graduate students from across the country banded together to give underclassmen tips on what they should do during their undergraduate years.
With more than 46,000 student spots to fill in the Spartan pie each academic year, MSU has taken to harvesting fruit outside of state lines. In last year’s freshman class, 20.9 percent of MSU students were not from Michigan — the highest percentage this decade.
Michigan’s 15 public universities and MSU Extension offices will experience a 2.8 percent cut in state funding — down from last year’s $1.46 billion to $1.42 billion — after a joint state Senate and House conference committee approved a higher education budget.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio surprised reporters by showing up at his weekly press conference Tuesday and announcing he would coach MSU’s game against Wisconsin on Saturday from the coaching box.
About 60 MSU College of Education students gathered at Breslin Center to hear U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s announcement of a campaign to revitalize the teaching profession nationally. MSU was featured as one of four schools in the nationwide discussion on the state of the country’s future educators, which was featured in MSNBC’s “Education Nation” special series.
With midterm elections rapidly approaching, President Barack Obama reached out to more than 100 college journalists Monday via conference call to emphasize the importance of student involvement in the upcoming election season, transparency in higher education spending, the job market and improving college graduation rates.