A 26-year-old male MSU Landscape Services employee reported multiple tree irrigation bags stolen across campus throughout the past two weeks, MSU police Sgt. Dan Munford said.
As Attorney General Mike Cox and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, are locked in a statistical tie for the lead going into the Republican gubernatorial primary Aug. 3, Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder has been gaining ground, according to a poll released Friday by Glengariff Group Inc., of Chicago. After surveying 500 voters across Michigan, the poll shows Cox with 26.4 percent of the vote, Hoekstra with 25.6 percent and Snyder with 20.2 percent.
The MSU Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center — completed in April from a private grant — studies optimal ways to convert waste into energy by harvesting naturally occurring methane gas. Using methane — a greenhouse gas — also will reduce the negative effect it would have on the environment if left untreated.
Voting by absentee ballot in elections might now be easier for students living away from home. The Michigan Secretary of State announced Monday voters now can track their absentee ballots online.
MSU medical students and faculty will be able to study and complete research at Chogoria Hospital in Kenya as part of a new agreement through the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and Institute of International Health, or IIH. The partnership was announced Monday and sets up a program for fourth-year medical students in the College of Osteopathic Medicine to study in Chogoria, Kenya for six weeks as part of an international elective program.
When Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany welcomed Nebraska as the conference’s 12th member June 11, he also said a conference championship game soon would be in the works. The game would not be played until the 2011 season, as Nebraska doesn’t officially join the conference until then, but as possible locations for the game are being discussed, here are my top five options for the Big Ten Championship.
When I drive by East Lansing High School or MacDonald Middle School, I often have to resist the temptation to pull into the parking lot and seek out my former coaches and teachers. I think it comes from a place I’ll call “The Reunion Zone.” I call it “The Reunion Zone” because I think the only reason to attend a class reunion is to either flaunt what one has become or try to hook up with former classmates.
For those who haven’t heard, there will be a new study in the fall that tracks recycling in Anthony Hall. Stuart Gage, a professor emeritus at MSU and the study’s principal investigator, said the study will use about 170 sensors to discover data about recycling habits — such as which bins fill up fastest or the point during the semester of highest use.
MSU and its students are taking part in the state’s growing film industry, which got off the ground in 2008 after Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation that offers incentives for production companies to film in the state. MSU has created two film-centric programs, and students from the university are taking part in a summer program geared at keeping young filmmakers in state after graduation, both of which further the school’s hand in the growing industry.
The case of a 25-year-old Lansing man who allegedly robbed a campus MSU Federal Credit Union branch will move to circuit court July 28 following a preliminary examination in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court on Friday.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, potentially could see a dramatic decrease in operations if its base operating millage is denied renewal by voters during the Aug. 3 primary elections.
A 24-year-old male MSU student reported his suitcase stolen during the morning of July 8 from a laundry room in Spartan Village, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
For 14 days, more than 80 paddlers will travel 225 miles from Jackson, Mich., to Lake Michigan on the longest river in the state. They will pass through 18 counties, 158 townships and try to raise $20,000 for the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, or NKFM, on the Grand River Expedition, or GRE, of 2010.
With dozens of sheep, goats, hogs and cattle, the second annual Michigan Livestock Expo was in full swing this weekend at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education. Featuring exhibitions, sales and contests, the expo will conclude Tuesday with an auction of the award-winning animals from the 8- to 20-year-old exhibitors. The expo is the largest in the state.
MSU students living in residence halls will split the cost of switching the Brody Complex’s water supply to East Lansing’s water system. The switch, which occurred during the spring semester, has doubled the amount MSU typically pays to supply water to campus buildings. MSU’s Hospitality Services and all students who reside on campus will pay for the switch through room and board rates in lieu of students living in Brody’s residence halls picking up the entire cost.
The 31st annual Michigan Agriculture Expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. Held at the corner of Farm Lane and Mount Hope Road, the event is sponsored by MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, or CANR. The expo will include a variety of exhibits, more than 235 vendors and events such as livestock handling and a toy tractor show.
MSU Extension is offering a program to help sheep and goat producers manage the internal parasites of their animals. The workshop, Integrated Parasite Management Program for Sheep and Goat Producers, will be held Saturday in Manchester, Mich.; July 31 in Union City, Mich.; and Sept.
Although the confidence for women to pursue careers has improved in recent years, they still face the issues of the everyday world. The Girls to Women Conference was started by the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing three years ago, after a junior high student confessed that she was tired of seeing her friends succumb to the pressures of school, the media and bad influences from their peers without a way to work through their issues successfully.
An MSU researcher will study links between arsenic exposure and lung cancer to determine new treatments using a recently secured $1.7 million grant. The National Institutes of Health awarded Chengfeng Yang, a physiology assistant professor with the College of Veterinary Medicine and MSU’s Center for Integrative Toxicology, a five-year general grant to study the roles of small ribonucleic acids called microRNAs in cell transformation caused by direct exposure to arsenic.
The All-Star break has come and gone, and four games into the second half of the season, it already appears the Detroit Tigers are continuing a familiar trend of falling in the second half of the season. But 2010 is a new year, and although the Tigers lost their first four games after the break to the woeful Cleveland Indians, they still are within striking distance of the first-place Chicago White Sox with plenty of baseball to be played. If Detroit hopes to reverse its post-All-Star break woes, here are three things that need to happen.