A 19-year-old male MSU student sustained minor injuries early Sunday morning after an altercation with his roommate in Wonders Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Despite funding uncertainties last fall, MSU officials said the future of MSU Extension and Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, or MAES, looks a little brighter after Gov. Jennifer Granholm made her 2011 budget proposal last week.
A $25 million cutting-edge science and technology center is coming to MSU, university officials announced Wednesday.
Twenty-five thousand feet above the green hills of Germany during World War II, Louis Stamatakos stood straddling the sky, feet hooked in the ribs of his crew’s aircraft. Cold air — oh, you can’t imagine how cold — rushed at the 19-year-old tail gunner from the nose of the plane.
The city of East Lansing will not receive the $25 million it requested from a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER, grant to renovate the Amtrak station on Harrison Road. The grant would have upgraded the Amtrak facility and created a public parking structure, a project which city officials view as essential to redeveloping the Trowbridge corridor.
In the 2009-10 academic year, the number of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in MSU’s College of Nursing increased by 1.9 percent, according to data from the Office of the Registrar. Enrollment in the college climbed by a smaller percentage in 2010 than was seen in previous years, following a national slowing in the eight-year boom of enrollment in nursing programs.
MSU increased its minority student enrollment by more than 100 students between 2008 and 2009. The Diversity and Inclusion Annual Progress Report showed a slight increase in the number of minority students enrolled at MSU.
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.