Registration for the fall season of the East Lansing Adult Softball League has begun. The league, which is available through the Department of Parks, Recreation and Arts, offers a variety of leagues ranging from competitive to recreational, and offers men’s, women’s and co-ed leagues.
Research conducted by an MSU assistant professor has led to a greater understanding of the correlation between light and plants. “The very core of our research is understanding how plants respond to light,” said Beronda Montgomery, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.
Almost two decades of research by an MSU professor regarding weight gain in women pregnant with twins recently helped update guidelines for The Institute of Medicine. Barbara Luke, an MSU professor of obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive biology and epidemiology, and a team of researchers from several institutions across the nation created the first ever weight-specific guidelines based on a woman’s body mass index, or BMI, before pregnancy.
A road construction project in East Lansing might cause a slightly bumpy transition for students moving in this fall, city officials said. Work being done on Mount Hope Road as part of a state-funded revitalization is projected to go into the fall. Completion of the project is scheduled for Oct. 2 and possibly could last longer.
Seventy-one-year-old Armilla Simon had a second chance at prom Friday night when she dressed up and brought her husband as a date to the Senior Prom, a dinner and dance hosted yearly for senior citizens in East Lansing.
With 15 months until 2010’s midterm elections, public office seekers will have a chance to sharpen their political skills with the help of an MSU-led program. Potential politicians will have the opportunity to receive specialized training under the Michigan Political Leadership Program, or MPLP, which offers fully paid, 10-month political training courses.
Curators of a new East Lansing art exhibit hope to change the way people perceive art with their new exhibit “Word Play.” A new exhibit at (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing’s alternative art space, explores the art of words, whether it be in the physical form of typography or in the spoken form through poetry.
Not every class begins with a cartoon professor arguing with a talking globe about what the class will cover. But for zoology visiting assistant professor Stephen Thomas, that’s a normal lecture.
Billions, or likely even trillions, of dollars are spent every year to fight diseases, advance medical technologies and teach new crops of graduate students how to treat the injured masses.
As the state’s economy continues to wind itself down, finding a decent job that pays a wage high enough to live on is starting to be thought of as a luxury. Even if someone was to be hired, many companies are only looking for part-time employees, and it would be extremely difficult to live on that income.
Not even rain could keep MSU students from speaking out about a promise. ASMSU, along with the University of Michigan Student Assembly, held a press conference Thursday to address the proposal in the Michigan Senate to discontinue the Michigan Promise Scholarship. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A 21-year-old male student reported his backpack stolen Monday from the Main Library, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
When Julielyn Gibbons was a child struggling with Crohn’s disease, she found her only way to communicate with the rest of the world was through her computer. “I looked at the Internet as my only way to do anything,” Gibbons said.
MSU withholds more student information than required by federal student privacy laws, university officials said. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, allows universities to release directory information about students without their consent, including home addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
An East Lansing-based development company in charge of a major downtown overhaul is facing financial problems across Michigan and in other states. Strathmore Development Company, the developer behind East Lansing’s City Center II project, is up against various foreclosures and unpaid property taxes for several developments inside and outside the state.
Thousands of dollars in summer camp and program fees are collected by MSU each year, but profits for the university are lower than some might expect. Some programs and camps break even, while others generate a small profit for the university.
Kimberly Whitfield spent Saturday working to put a little extra money into her pocket, managing to earn about $200 with an American tradition: the garage sale.
Beginning at 10 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Saturday, westbound I-96 running under southbound US-127 will be closed. The ramp from westbound I-96 to southbound US-127 also will be closed.
The Moonlight Film Festival will be showing “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” at 9:30 p.m. tonight at Valley Court Park, 400 Hillside Court. The festival shows films outdoors for free and is organized by the city of East Lansing. One hour before the showing of the film there will be a performance by musician Ryan Knott.
For the time being, East Lansing has lost its only bicycle taxi because of confusion with the city’s updated taxi ordinance. Tony Benedict, owner of Pure Power Pedicab, said after operating his business since November 2008, he was forced to stop pedaling in East Lansing in late June because of new aspects of the city’s ordinance regarding taxis.