Whenever Carl Cafagna hits a note on the sax, clarinet or another instruments he’s mastered, he is carrying on his father’s passion for jazz. “My son became what I always wanted to be,” said Al Cafagna, Carl’s father and a retired MSU philosophy professor.
Eighteen little faces crowded around a hive where hundreds of bees swarmed Saturday. “This is bee rush hour,” 8-year-old Patrick Meehan shouted as the insects scrambled to leave the hive through a tube leading out of the building.
With the purpose of highlighting the importance of recycling and the concept of making art out of trash, 12 teams of varying sizes hastily sorted through a scrap yard Saturday at Friedland Industries, 405 E. Maple St., in Lansing’s Old Town, to collect up to 500 pounds of scrap metal each for the first-ever Scrapfest event.
After a week of research, 50 forensic science hopefuls were given the chance to apply their skills Friday at the mock murder scene of Bad Choice, a dummy with two X’s for eyes drawn on his Styrofoam head.
Some lawmakers are challenging the Michigan State Police Department’s plan to move its headquarters from MSU’s campus to a new Lansing location by blocking multimillion dollar funding they say is economically irresponsible.
I know very little about the television industry. In fact, to say I know anything at all would be a lie. Give me a video camera and I’ll give you shots of people’s feet after I leave it recording. Tell me to build a stage and you might be lucky enough to get a birdhouse.
A wrongly convicted criminal serving time might not get access to all the evidence he or she needs thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The court decided Thursday that access to DNA testing for convicted prisoners isn’t a constitutional right, despite at least 232 cases having been overturned by DNA evidence in the U.S.
During the next two years, tuition for in-state undergraduates will increase by a total of 10.1 percent. For 2009-10, the increase will be 5.2 percent and for 2010-11 it will be 4.9 percent, according to the Budget Development Overview.
Iranian citizens protesting presidential election results in their country are hoping they will be heard by a government thousands of miles away and inspire change in Iran. Local Iranians and Iranian graduate students from universities — including MSU — met Thursday at the Capitol to fight for their voting rights and protest what they call “election fraud” in Iran. On June 12, Iranians cast their ballots, and the next day, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president to the country, defeating opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi.
The free Concerts in the Park series had its second concert of the summer Wednesday in Durant Park. Although the gloomy weather might have deterred a larger crowd, of the 30 people who attended, most seemed to have an enjoyable evening.
If you are wondering where your unregistered Huffy disappeared to after hibernating on campus all winter, the MSU Surplus Store might be able to help.
An MSU professor received more than $100,000 in federal stimulus money to hire summer researchers. Chemistry associate professor Dana Spence said his lab is still looking for an undergraduate student and a high school teacher to work as researchers this summer.
Officials at MSU Dubai announced on Friday the creation of the MSU Dubai Distinguished Scholarship Program, which will provide financial assistance to 10 students for the fall semester.
The state’s unemployment rate shot up a more than 1 percentage point in May to 14.1 percent, according to data from the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth.
Michigan college students who rely on the Promise Scholarship may need to find another way to come up with cash for school. On Tuesday, a state Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to eliminate the Michigan Promise Scholarship and drastically cut funding for need-based grant programs. The bill came before the full Senate appropriations committee Wednesday.
MSU graduate students interested in both education and economics won’t have to choose between passions anymore because of a new interdisciplinary program combining the two, set to start in the fall.
Smokers looking to get their specialized nicotine fix might be out of luck if the Food and Drug Administration is given regulating power in the industry as part of national legislation passed last week.
First, there are boxes, boards and books stacked ceiling high like the most well-organized attic your cool uncle ever kept. If you can tear your eyes away from the sheer volume of stuff in the clean, cramped store, the display counters are packed full of valuable comic books and tiny figurines.
By now, you’ve seen the Pure Michigan advertisements on TV. In the commercials, there usually are images of Michigan’s Great Lakes, lighthouses and fresh harvests coming in. It shows all the openness, the nature of the state, the beauty that shines through the mere landscape and topography. But all the nature, as beautifully mesmerizing as it is, cannot hold the attention of the most freewheeling minds.
Fears of ecological disruptions as a result of deforestation in the Amazon River Basin might not be as serious as some believe, according to a new study led by MSU researchers.