The MSU volleyball team added another match to be played at Breslin Center, closing out its home season with a rivalry match against Michigan on Nov. 24.
A 24-year-old female from Minneapolis crashed her car Monday night in Lot 63, MSU police Sgt. Paul Kuchek said.
Accounting graduate student Matt Sanders took a detour from his usual eateries Thursday afternoon to be one of the first customers at Pizza Pi, 551 1/2 E. Grand River Ave.
A warmer than average summer increases the chances of an above average snowfall this upcoming winter, said John Kowaleski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids. Through the end of July, Lansing recorded temperatures were about 4.3 degrees higher the average of 82, and in June, temperatures were 2.5 degrees above normal — numbers not seen in the past few years, Kowaleski said.
As state funding to public universities is cut and tuition increases, students are leaving college with more debt, according to new released Monday by the Michigan League for Human Services, or MLHS. Titled “Pulling the Plug on Michigan’s Future,” the reported was conducted by the MLHS, which is a nonprofit advocacy group for low-income residents.
Every year, more than 100,000 kittens and puppies are euthanized in Michigan shelters because of overcrowding and limits on how long an animal can stay. To help limit the number of animals without homes, the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine is going to the source of the problem — the dogs and cats who have the litters.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The sentence has become a cliché over time, but when it comes to the MSU football team, there is no better way to describe the Spartans’ attitude as they enter the 2010 season.
The former Democratic nominee for Michigan’s 8th congressional district who twice entered and retreated from the race has registered to vote in another state, allowing the Michigan Democratic Party to nominate a new candidate for the November general election.
Ultrinsic, a service that will be offered at 36 colleges and universities including MSU in the fall, allows students to wager money on what grade they will get in a class, a semester or their final college GPA.
Michigan’s gubernatorial candidates will have plenty to argue about when they meet for debates in the coming months, but how many will be held appears to be one of the first points of contention between the two.
A 20-year-old female MSU student reported her bicycle stolen Aug. 4 at the Spartan Village Community Center, 1460 Middlevale Road, MSU police Sgt. Shaun Mills said.
Sixty students from about 25 different countries came to MSU for a three-day orientation to the U.S. culture and its customs called Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program, or FLTA. MSU is one of eight schools selected to hold an orientation program for FLTA. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and administered by the Institute of International Education, or IIE.
Michigan homes could benefit from a new initiative focusing on retrofitting existing structures using energy efficient insulation, equipment and other strategies to reduce energy consumption by up to 50 percent. MSU’s School of Planning, Design & Construction and Institute for Public Policy and Social Research’s Office for Survey Research will join Dow Building and Construction, Habitat for Humanity International and Ferris State University on a multiyear initiative funded by the U.S.
Finding a possible correlation between race and justice, two MSU law professors statistically found race might play a role in North Carolina convicts being sentenced to the death penalty. MSU law professors Catherine Grosso and Barbara O’Brien began to research capital punishment cases in North Carolina about a year ago after the passing of the Racial Justice Act, which allows death row inmates in the state to appeal their sentences based on racial discrimination.
MSU officials look to pile on the savings once the merging of landscaping materials is complete. About three piles of materials are in the process of being moved into one centralized location at the Beaumont Nursery in an attempt to increase efficiency and reduce costs by officials at the Physical Plant.
Animals in prehistoric Africa might have taken a drastically different evolutionary route than scientists previously thought, according to the results of a recent fossil discovered by an MSU professor in Tanzania. MSU professor and paleontologist Michael Gottfried was part of a research group, led by Ohio University professor Patrick O’Connor, that uncovered a mammal-like crocodile in the country located in southeastern Africa.
Oh man, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional a few weeks ago. I wasn’t surprised. A few months ago, I read that conservative lawyer Theodore Olson would take up the banner for gay marriage and immediately thought, “So, this is a done deal, right?”
Sharing and working together are elementary behaviors taught during our early years in an effort to get us used to the ideas of life’s great compromise: We can’t always get what we want. MSU has taken an opportunity to teach legislators something they can’t learn in a classroom or on the pages of a book, a basic how-to guide on balancing politics with various personalities.
Men’s soccer senior goalkeeper Avery Steinlage and women’s soccer junior forward Laura Heyboer have been named to the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy Watch List, considered the highest honor in intercollegiate soccer.
Former MSU golfer and All-American Ryan Brehm has decided to bring his talents back to East Lansing, only this time as an assistant coach for the men’s golf program.