Susan J. Bandes, director of Kresge Art Museum, will step down from the position May 1, according to a statement from MSU. Bandes is expected to pursue teaching at MSU while she remains a full-time professor for the Department of Art and Art History.
A plan to replace the Michigan Promise Scholarship as a forgivable loan was introduced Wednesday in the state House of Representatives. House Bill 5849, proposed by state Rep. Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, would grant students the Michigan Promise Scholarship as a loan with the requirement that they stay in Michigan for five years after graduation.
For Elizabeth Convery, Wednesday marked a new beginning. The communication senior was one of more than 6,000 students who attended St. John Catholic Student Center, 327 M.A.C. Ave., Wednesday to mark the start of Lent, the 40-day period, excluding Sundays, prior to Easter celebrated by Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans.
The MSU Community Music School in East Lansing received a $2,000 grant from CVS Caremark, a segment of CVS/pharmacy, for its music therapy program. The money will allow school officials to offer more music therapy programs and give officials an opportunity to provide some financial aid for families.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety won an award for traffic safety for the second year in a row. With the award, the department is receiving $6,000 to use toward traffic safety.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order Wednesday to trigger portions of a health care reform plan she announced earlier this month. The executive order cleared the way for university, public school and local government officials to participate in a health care plan that currently is offered to state employees.
The admission deadline for Teach for America is Friday. Teach for America accepts applications from graduating or recently graduated college students and professionals.
The Michigan Good Food Summit will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Lansing Center in Lansing. A group of stakeholders will meet at the summit to discuss Michigan’s agricultural assets and economy.
A salsa band will play at 8 p.m. today at the Hart Recital Hall in the Music Building.
To celebrate the MSU School of Journalism’s 100-year anniversary, the school is featuring speakers Don Gonyea of National Public Radio and Kathy Barks Hoffman of The Associated Press in a lecture entitled New Technology and Political Coverage at 4:30 p.m. today.
Regret, blame, addiction, betrayal and infidelity — no family is perfect, and the Weston family in Steppenwolf’s “August: Osage County” certainly is no exception.
The MSU’s Vietnamese Student Association celebrates and educates about the lunar new year last Tuesday in Holden Hall.
MSU alumnus Peter Ohren speaks on why he wrote his fourth book and what inspired him.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant was not happy with her team’s post defense in Sunday’s 68-55 win against Northwestern.
It should come as no surprise that the MSU softball team was excited to finally kick off its season last weekend at the Lead-Off Classic in DeLand, Fla.
Coming off a season-best performance against No. 20 Illinois on Sunday, the No. 22 MSU gymnastics team is hoping for an encore showing Saturday against New Hampshire.
I plan to leave Michigan for a warmer, sunnier state after college. The snow just has lost its appeal. As people get older, the excitement about snow days disappears, and the inconveniences and increased driving hazards brought on by snow are enough to ruin plans. Winter does have one very strong element not many people recognize when arguing about its positives and negatives.
Last November, four MSU students allegedly threw a firework into MSU student Eric Flatley’s Grove Street yard as part of a prank.As if they didn’t have enough to worry about, two of the students have been suspended, according to reports.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon on Wednesday announced a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, for a new science and technology center.
A 19-year-old female MSU student said a man exposed himself to her Thursday in Hubbard Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.