Last school year, 20.9 percent of MSU students were not residents of Michigan — the highest number in the past decade. As the population of Michigan dwindles and fewer students enroll in K-12 schools, MSU is looking outside of the mitten to discover future Spartans.
Through four games, the No. 24 MSU football team has excelled in the areas considered its biggest question marks coming in, while its vaunted passing attack, which started the season slowly, finally is making strides.
University officials hope the new classrooms, teaching labs and research space planned for the forthcoming Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research distinguish it as a center of innovation and learning after its opening toward the end of next year. The three-story, 50,000 square-foot facility will provide space for about 475 students enrolled in the college in 2010, potentially holding more.
MSU has been awarded $65,001 to forecast beach and nearshore health effects as part of $1.8 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants for Michigan.
A firecracker went off Tuesday night inside the stairwell of South Hubbard Hall while MSU police officers were in the building investigating another incident, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Tim Barron remembers when HIV and AIDS didn’t have names. The Lansing Radio DJ said he knew friends who contracted the disease, saw the early stages of its research and publicity and now is doing his part to help. Barron, a radio DJ for WQTX (92.1), emceed the Lansing Area AIDS Network’s, or LAAN, AIDS Walk Lansing/East Lansing 2010 Sunday, starting at Valley Court Park, 400 Hillside Court, circling around the Bailey Neighborhood and ending back at the park. The festivities began at Valley Court Park, with tents set up for participants and corporate sponsors for those registering.
Recent approvals given by U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, officials for MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, nudges the multimillion dollar project closer to completion toward the end of the decade. On Thursday, the FRIB project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the DOE.
MSU was chosen as one of four schools to be featured in a national live broadcast on NBC at 2 p.m. Monday at Breslin Center.
The 2010 World Stem Cell Summit will be co-hosted by MSU, Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
About 20,000 pounds of scrap metal, 200 gallons of grease and oil, a truckload of clothes, 2.5 tons of appliances and other items were gathered at Recycle-Rama on Saturday at the Ingham County Health Department. Recycle-Rama offered free disposal of items such as TVs, refrigerators and other goods that usually cost money to recycle.
Brisk winds, caramel apples and beautiful days for football are indications of only one thing — fall has arrived. Since Wednesday’s official ushering in of the new season, East Lansing residents and students swapped bikinis and shorts for sweatshirts and blue jeans. “I usually wear layers and layers of clothes,” said Jimmy Johnson, a psychology and premedical sophomore. “I’m already starting to do that and it’s bad because it’s just fall.
Without head coach Mark Dantonio running the show, the No. 24 MSU football team rallied behind offensive coordinator Don Treadwell as the Spartans defeated Northern Colorado, 45-7, to move to 4-0 on the season.
There might not have been a movie made about him, but soccer players should be trying to bend it like Thompson. Senior midfielder Spencer Thompson scored his second corner kick goal of the season, as the No. 15 MSU men’s soccer team opened up Big Ten play with a 2-0 home victory against Northwestern on Sunday.
Despite splitting two matches in its Big Ten-opening weekend at Breslin Center, the MSU volleyball team still is motivated to have a successful conference season amidst its tough competition.
The MSU women’s soccer team lost its Big Ten opener Sunday, falling 1-0 to conference favorite Penn State (3-6-1).
Author MaryJanice Davidson will be giving a free talk and signing copies of her book, “Me, Myself and Why,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Center Blvd., in Lansing.
Professor Sean Pue will present “Dialogue and Truth: An Introduction to Gandhi and His Global Legacy” at 7 p.m. today in Room 303 of the International Center.
There is a proportional relationship between how lame politicians are and how lame the discussion becomes on cable television. This mathematical truth is most evident in a midterm election. Along with unrealistic promises and yelling comes a media culture that encourages bad behavior.
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 his perspective of his new frontier.
State Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade, said it all with a simple and single “nay” concerning the ban on the synthetic cannabinoid K2 last Thursday. Amash hit the nail on the head when he wrote in his Facebook status that despite health concerns, using the substance constituted a victimless crime and that banning it should not be the government’s priority.