A new federal program will allow students with federal loans to lower their monthly payments based on their income. The Income-Based Repayment, or IBR, plan will allow borrowers to correlate their payments with the amount of money they’re making.
The U.S. Senate might join Michigan in posting legislators’ expenses online, if President Barack Obama signs a bill mandating transparent spending.
If the Pentagon acts on a recent report, the iconic image of the smoking soldier will be lost to the annals of history.
From giving 55-year-old Brody Hall a face-lift to outfitting walls inside Owen Graduate Hall with bamboo, construction crews have spent the first half of summer working toward a revived campus. University engineer Robert Nestle said summer construction is progressing on schedule and without difficulty, as several projects near completion and other large-scale projects break ground. “There’s no question things are slowing down some on campus, but there are several new projects that are moving ahead,” he said.
The East Lansing City Council plans to vote on extending parking hours on the 100 block of Orchard Street at its 7:30 meeting tonight in City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
New state legislation might make it easier for Michigan residents serving abroad in the military to cast absentee votes and to have them counted in time for Election Day. Operation: Make Our Troops Count is a proposal that would allow service men and women abroad to receive absentee votes electronically via e-mail and then mail them to their local county clerk.
Two MSU students are named in a $25,000 lawsuit about reported defamation on Wikipedia. Ingham County Commissioner Mark Grebner filed a complaint statinig international relations junior Brad Dennis and criminal justice sophomore Anthony Giammarinaro made edits to Grebner’s Wikipedia entry in October 2008.
A bus shelter and pedestrian walkway near Akers and Hubbard halls might be the newest by-products of federal stimulus funding, if the project is approved by the public. Public forums will be held early this fall where people can voice their opinions on the matter, said Sandy Dragoo, chief executive officer for the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA. The plans, which are not set in stone and are contingent on the outcome of the hearings, would be funded by more than $7 million in grant money awarded to CATA last week under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, she said. “We are having public forums as soon as school begins this fall,” Dragoo said.
The Humane Society of the United States’ fight for a few inches might be far tougher than one would expect. The national animal rights group has been lobbying the state of Michigan to give more room to certain confined livestock animals, saying that many don’t have room to stand up, lie down, turn around or extend their limbs.
With newly appropriated funds from the federal government, East Lansing city buildings will be lit with a more environmentally friendly light. An Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, which is being allocated under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, or ARRA, will give East Lansing $213,200 to use toward energy conservation.
For Matt Corrion, farming isn’t just hard work — it’s a family legacy. Corrion, whose family runs Corrion Farms in Essexville, Mich., and produces a plethora of crops, continued more than 25 years of tradition Sunday at the East Lansing Farmer’s Market. The market was the first such event to occur in the city in about a decade.
For almost two weeks, Pamela Whitten, dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, has been mum about the status of both the School of Journalism and its former director, Jane Briggs-Bunting.
The sight of a barn and sound of a tractor mean something different to Greg Thon than to most people. Thon grew up on a farm, and instead of leaving it in his past, he’s pursuing agriculture as a future.
Writing has always been a passion for MSU alumnus Adam Holwerda, who used the self-publishing Web site lulu.com to publish his first book of short stories, “Clayton’s Secret Notebook.”
President Barack Obama will visit Michigan on Tuesday. He will speak at Macomb County Community College’s Robert E. Turner Advanced Technology Center. The speech is ticketed and closed to the public.
Nicole Rovig was installed as the new MSU registrar July 1. The Office of the Registrar keeps academic records and works with the Office of Admissions and the Office of Financial Aid. It also manages course scheduling.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will hold a forum at 12:30 p.m. today in Charlotte. Doors open at noon at Country Mill Farms, 4648 Otto Road. Vilsack will talk about stimulus projects and ask for suggestions about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s role in strengthening rural economies.
Students returning in the fall no longer will go the housing office in their complex if they have a problem with their roommate. Instead, students will visit a new central housing office at C-101 in Wilson Hall, which is part of an overhaul of the university’s Division of Housing & Food Services.
The mysteries of the earliest cosmos have become a more clear thanks to research compiled by a group including MSU researcher Brian O’Shea. “I study how galaxies are built,” said O’Shea, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy. “Sort of from the big bang up to nowadays.”
When Jim van Ravensway was a student at MSU in the 1970s, he never imagined he would be working for the local government. “I just sort of fell into it,” the director of East Lansing’s Planning and Community Development Department said.