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.
In high school, Aaron Schwartz-Duval was on the swim team. Not wanting to abandon the pool entirely after going to college, he decided to embrace a different kind of water sport — underwater hockey. After joining the MSU underwater hockey club, Schwartz-Duval, now a biochemistry and molecular biology junior, said he’s gained an appreciation and understanding of a sport many in the U.S. don’t even know exists.
The 2010 MSU Football Media Day took place Tuesday, offering a preview of what Spartans fans can expect from the Green and White in the upcoming season.
Horticulturists, landscapers and other industry professionals wandered throughout MSU’s Trial Gardens inspecting blossoms for their color and durability among the varieties of this year’s plant breeds at the MSU Garden Plant Showcase. About 70 professional landscapers, horticulturists and plant breeders attended the annual showcase event held in the Plant and Soil Sciences Building and Trial Gardens. The day-long event featured presenters from MSU faculty and staff, as well as industry experts.
After learning North America’s largest salamander was in danger of extinction, MSU veterinarians have teamed up with two zoos to start researching the sticky situation. Due to the declining populations of the hellbender salamander, MSU researchers — with help from the Nashville Zoo and Antwerp Zoo in Belgium — have been tracking and collecting sperm samples from the remaining salamanders.
A new initiative is giving residents of Ingham County an opportunity to receive notifications of emergencies and traffic advisories from across the county. East Lansing officials and the East Lansing Police Department are encouraging people to sign up for Nixle, an online information service that allows local governments to send real-time text messages and e-mails to subscribers. City Manager Ted Staton said the service is an alternative to traditional means of broadcasting important information — such as a radio station alerting the public of a road closure. “So many people are very tech savvy — that is where they get important news,” Staton said.
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins Wednesday, and Muslims in the MSU and East Lansing community are preparing for a month of fasting, charity and an increased emphasis on family and friends.
In November, MSU switched its library cataloging services from one company to another to save money. But a lawsuit filed two weeks ago in U.S. District Court by the company that now provides MSU’s cataloging services against the company whose software formerly was used might change that.
As the dust clears following the outcome of the Aug. 3 primary election, Michigan voters can look for the arrival of two new names into the fray of the November gubernatorial general election.
With less than a month to go before the MSU football team’s first game of the 2010 season, preseason practice officially began Monday morning when the Spartans ran the team’s conditioning test.
A 26-year-old male damaged his vehicle Thursday evening in Lot 88 next to the Laundry Building, MSU police Sgt. Shaun Mills said.
The second location of StateSide Deli, which will open Wednesday in downtown East Lansing, will fulfill the name of the store, a sentiment missing from the original location in Okemos. With the newest location of StateSide Deli, 313 E. Grand River Ave., Spencer Soka, the deli’s owner, said he is planning on the New York-style deli to be an MSU mainstay.
An agreement between East Lansing and Meridian Township to share construction inspection services and save money for both communities went into effect Monday. As a result of the agreement, Meridian Township utility inspections will be conducted by East Lansing inspectors.
The annual MSU Garden Plant Showcase will take place all day Tuesday at the Plant and Soil Science Building and Trial Gardens. The showcase will feature MSU faculty and staff discussing top-performing plants.
This fall, the MSU Museum’s Quilt Index — an online database of more than 50,000 quilt images — will prepare to expand its resources internationally, using an almost $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, or IMLS. The IMLS is the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums. The Quilt Index was one of 13 national recipients to receive one-year project planning grants.
After releasing her first full-length pop/R&B album “Trouble” this year, recent MSU graduate Crystal Williams, who goes by the stage name Jenna Milan, said she is ready to continue pursuing her music career now that she is done with school.
Wow! The summer of 2010 is just about in the history books as a done deal. What have we accomplished? I always ask this question as a new school year approaches. I seem to forget that for some of us, the previous school year never ended. If one came back to campus to take summer classes, much of what others considered “summer break” was little more than business as usual.
It is not often we are able to use the word “magnanimous.” But with the recent philanthropy of a few billionaires, there aren’t many other words that immediately come to mind. Among those individuals is MSU alumnus Eli Broad. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? If not, you can find his name on MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business or alongside his wife’s name on the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, set to open in 2012.
Graffiti is an illegal act of vandalism that rose to notoriety as a form of communication between gang members. But throughout recent years, graffiti has parted from its roots and, as some area artists and MSU students said, is taking hold as a form of modern art.
Although gay rights advocates across the nation might be claiming victory after a federal judge overturned a same-sex marriage ban in California, the fight more than 2,000 miles away is to some Michiganians a reminder of the state’s own unresolved legislation on the matter.