Christine Harder chooses to spend a lot of her time digging through worm poop. The poop, or worm casting, is used as a healthy, nonchemical, and basically free fertilizer for plants. The interdisciplinary studies in social science and environmental policy and Spanish senior interns at Michigan Energy Options, 405 Grove St., and her favorite part of the job is the compost education program.
The MSU Polish Club hosted an egg-ornamenting event Tuesday in celebration of this weekend’s Easter holiday. Pisanki, derived from the Polish word “pisac” meaning “to write,” is the term used to describe the technique of decorating an egg with any pattern or image desired.
After dropping two tight games during the weekend, the MSU softball team got just what it needed Tuesday in a confidence-boosting 9-2 win against Eastern Michigan.
The seniors on this year’s MSU baseball team have struggled against Central Michigan in their time at MSU. In the past three seasons, the Spartans only have posted one victory against the Chippewas in six attempts.
It has been nine days since junior guard Kalin Lucas’ season ended with a ruptured Achilles’ tendon, but it hasn’t gotten any easier for the first-team All-Big Ten selection to cope with the fact he won’t be on the floor with his teammates in the Final Four.
Unlike many musicians, Daniel Hoover doesn’t have aspirations to become rich and famous playing music one day.
Breakfast with the Bunny will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday at Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Drive, in Lansing.
Four groups will perform for a night of indie rock at 8 p.m. Friday at The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
MSU students will again be voting in 2010 — this time probably less enthusiastically than in 2008, when students overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama, the candidate of “hope and change.”
One of the largest problems in the United States, and the next issue MSU should tackle aggressively, is food waste. The amount of food wasted every day and thrown away in the cafeterias is huge — there’s no denying that. Although the food is unlikely to go to another hungry resident of the world, it’s a huge economic waste and loss of natural resources that could be used more productively.
The passing of this legislation is a sign the government is heading in the right direction to increase the number of college graduates. The new law will allow students easier, more direct funding for college. The government is cutting out what seems like an unnecessary middleman in the form of private loan companies, which might look to make money off of students and add unneeded red tape to the lending process.
MSU head coach Tom Izzo said Tuesday at his weekly press conference that junior guard Kalin Lucas underwent surgery on the ruptured Achilles tendon in his left leg on Tuesday. Izzo said the surgery went “very well” and he hopes Lucas will be able to make the trip to Indianapolis this weekend to watch the Spartans in the Final Four.
A man allegedly connected to an on-campus sexual assault in February was arraigned Monday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
When MSU students go online to vote in the ASMSU spring elections at studentelections.msu.edu, there will be at least 28 names staring back at them. The 28 students are vying to become the faces of MSU’s undergraduate student government, a group with a budget of more than $1 million and the official voices of the university’s undergraduate populace.
Officials in an MSU college have rescinded a recommendation to eliminate the environmental economics and policy major, the first such instance in the months since dozens of program and specialization cuts were made public.
The $550-million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, poses no serious environmental threats to MSU, according to a preliminary assessment of the facility’s potential impact on its surroundings.
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton will formally submit the 2010-11 fiscal year budget proposal Monday with various temporary cost-cutting and revenue-generating measures.
Sherrie Barr’s female dance students are not girls — they are young women. According to her, the subtle change in syntax can make a world of difference in terms of respect, something the dance industry historically has lacked in being defined as a woman’s field. Barr, MSU’s director of dance, spoke Monday as part of a panel for Wearing the Pants: Women in the Workplace, an event coordinated by student group Respecting Individuals on Neutral Grounds, or RING, and the MSU Women’s Council.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine LGBT Allies in Medicine will host several speakers this week as a part of LGBT Health Awareness Week: Closing the Gap.
Officials on the newly elected executive board for the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, want to create new programs and services for the more than 10,000 graduate and professional students at MSU, but said their plans are contingent on a tax referendum currently before students.