As the No. 8 MSU field hockey team prepares for this week’s Big Ten Tournament, it has every reason in the world to be feeling good about itself.
Forwards score goals, midfielders rack up assists and goalkeepers corral saves.
Following back-to-back tough Big Ten losses, the Spartans step out for a rare late-season nonconference football game against Western Michigan this Saturday (noon, Big Ten Network).
Four MSU freshmen face felony charges carrying sentences of up to 20 years in prison after their arrests early Monday for detonating explosives in an East Lansing yard.
A process for how to give student and faculty members a voice in proposed academic schedule changes remains in question, almost one month after MSU Provost Kim Wilcox announced his decision not to create more Friday classes next year.
Dozens of recommended cuts to campus programs and departments have yet to be referred to Academic Governance committees for deliberation, but university officials hope to make final decisions by the end of next semester.
After a long campaign period, Mayor Vic Loomis and Councilmember Kevin Beard were re-elected to their seats on the East Lansing City Council for another four years. Loomis, who has been on the council since 2001 and mayor since 2007, received 1,662 votes, and Beard, who has been on the council since 2005, received 1,638 votes in Tuesday’s election to fill two open seats on the council. About 8.74 percent of East Lansing’s 28,101 registered voters cast ballots in the election, East Lansing City Clerk Nicole Evans said.
A 19-year-old student reported his bicycle stolen sometime between 4 and 4:50 p.m. Friday from a locked study lounge in East Akers Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The Midwest Roosevelt Institute Campus Network 2009 Fall Policy Workshop will be held Nov. 13 and 14 at the MSU Detroit Center, 3408 Woodward Ave., in Detroit.
The head of the Chinese consulate in Chicago, Consul Huang Ping, will visit MSU at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 6 in the Business College Complex Room N100.
Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh will be part of a guest lecture series through the Department of Art and Art History at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in room 109 of South Kedzie Hall.
The MSU Museum and Museum Store will offer extended hours until 7 p.m. Nov. 4 and 11. The museum also is holding a holiday benefit sale, which includes toys, books and gifts that celebrate world cultures and natural history.
Aaron Vande Wege will conclude The Children’s Concert Series at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Professional theater company Williamston Theatre, 122 S. Putnam St., in downtown Williamston, Mich., will open its production of “This Wonderful Life” by Steve Murray at 3 p.m. Nov. 27. and is scheduled to run until Dec. 20. Tickets for the 90-minute production go on sale Nov. 9.
A group of MSU researchers is helping fruit farmers across the state increase their crop yield and cut costs with the help of sex chemicals from female moths.
MSU researchers are concerned regulations on embryonic stem cell research proposed in a Michigan Senate Committee would interfere with their progress.
The Lansing Art Gallery, 113 S. Washington Square, in Lansing, will hold a community reception from 7-9 p.m. Friday in honor of three new exhibitions.
A one-night seminar designed to answer questions involving photography will be held from 6-9 p.m. Monday, at Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, in Meridian Township.
Jennifer Connarn learned this past summer not to believe everything you hear about MSU’s study abroad program. The finance junior said most people expect to ace the courses they take overseas, but her experience did not live up to the hype.
Two East Lansing neighborhoods north of Saginaw Street soon could restrict new rental units.