The MSU Departments of Crop and Soil Sciences and Horticulture will host a tour of the latest techniques for dealing with and eliminating persistent weeds from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the MSU Plant Pathology Field Lab. The day will include a breakfast of coffee and doughnuts as well as lunch and a tour of non-genetically modified soybean weed control at the MSU Plant Pathology Field Lab.
To celebrate Father’s Day, Ingham County dads will receive free admission to Potter Park Zoo on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The day will include a Keeper Talk about the role of dads in the wild and at the zoo, taking place at 2 p.m. Fathers will also have a chance to win a penguin feeding. The Magellanic penguin exhibit includes a new father of three penguin chicks born last month.
There’s just something about Drake. The 23-year-old Toronto native’s June 15 release of “Thank Me Later” is a little bit of everything I wanted, and when he raps about how the game needed life and he put his heart into it, he’s not just being cocky.
The fifth annual Spartan Football Fantasy Camp was held Tuesday and Wednesday and allowed 15 adult men to live out their dream of being coached by MSU football coaches and playing at Spartan Stadium
Last Friday, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany announced Nebraska as the 12th member of the conference, and since then, he and other conference officials have talked a lot about how well Nebraska fits the Big Ten profile. Here is a look at how Nebraska fits in the Big Ten athletically in five of the most prominent college sports.
Today is a bright day for the future of MSU men’s basketball! I personally try not to assert my opinion, but this head coach Tom Izzo situation has made me crazy!
Sometimes I wonder if anyone really cares about the opinions, attitudes and feelings of students on campus. I have spoken with a number of students over spring semester and the beginning of summer semester.
As MSU’s Board of Trustees heads off to Detroit for its three-day retreat, it seems like a strange place to conduct talks about the future of the university.
The speculation is over — Izzo’s here to stay. And to sports editor Chris Vannini, it’s because the man whose life revolves around shaping players into the best they can be just couldn’t leave the Spartans he calls family.
Upon hearing news that men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo would be staying “for life at Michigan State,” the Spartan community erupted in celebration across campus, nation and worldwide.
After a lengthy discussion lasting more than an hour and a half, the East Lansing City Council unanimously approved a special use permit for a liquor license for a restaurant currently in the works in the downtown area.
On Tuesday night, nine days after MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo first was rumored to be the leading candidate for the coaching vacancy of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Izzo announced he will remain the Spartans’ leading man at a press conference in the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center Auditorium.
MSU Extension is working with Macomb and St. Clair counties to create a position for an MSU Extension educator to promote agricultural products in those areas. The Michigan Extension program is part of MSU, and works with federal, state and county governments to apply MSU research with other areas of Michigan. The program, along with the two counties, want to create the MSU Extension educator position to focus on economic development of agribusiness.
Members of the Michigan Congressional Delegation signed a letter to men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo, thanking him for the positive impact he has on both MSU and across the state and urging him to stay at MSU.
A 24-year-old male from Okemos reported his portable disc golf set stolen last Wednesday evening at the MSU Agricultural Exposition Site, east of Lot 89, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
After 15 years of waiting, the amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, finally bloomed in the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden last Friday, and filled the room with a smell so disgusting it caused headaches. The corpse flower is known as the largest flower in the world, but is actually the largest inflorescence, which is a cluster of flowers. Found only on the edges of Sumatran rainforests, the corpse flower can grow to more than six feet tall and three or four feet in diameter.
Mark Stephens, an education program coordinator in MSU’s Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resources Studies, led a two-day Fishing for the Future of the Great Lakes workshop May 15-16 at Gardner Middle School, 333 Dahlia Dr., in Lansing. Stephens, who coordinates the Project Friends Involved in Sportfishing Heritage, or Project FISH, program, said the workshop equips people to teach kids about fishing and aquatic resource stewardship.
Jake Chelios, brother of MSU sophomore forward Dean Chelios, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the MSU hockey team next fall. After one season in the United States Hockey League, during which he scored 12 goals and had 22 assists in 52 games, Jake Chelios decided to join three other MSU recruits in signing letters of intent for next fall.
MSU Sports Information has confirmed an 8:30 p.m. Tuesday press conference where men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo will announce he is staying with the university.
The outpouring of support for MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo offers conclusive evidence that there are issues that can motivate the MSU community. It is our hope that this current level of interest in university matters will continue as the MSU Board of Trustees begins its discussions of the school’s budget.