Third-graders don’t always race to get healthy food, but for two classes at Willow Elementary School in Lansing, getting fruits and vegetables showed the MSU students who had been teaching them how much they had learned.
Changes in Michigan’s job industry mean graduates are deserting the state at increasing rates, said Britany Affolter-Caine, coordinator of Intern in Michigan, a new Web site and job program.
An MSU professor will work on turning cornstarch into medicine at the university’s Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich. Afid Therapeutics Inc., owned by biochemistry and microbiology professor Rawle Hollingsworth, will be the first bioeconomy company to use the labs and production plant at the MSU-owned facility in Holland.
East Lansing soon might be taking steps to become a greener city. At today’s scheduled East Lansing City Council meeting at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, the council will consider adopting a resolution put together by the Green Task Force, a part of the Michigan Municipal League, or MML.
Eric Roof has never played baseball for his father, but he’ll get his first chance in the next couple months. Roof, who played catcher for the Spartans, was the only MSU player taken in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He’ll be playing for the organization where his father, Gene, has spent more than two decades — the Detroit Tigers.
I found out recently that a girl who is a junior in my high school had a baby about a month ago. I’m sad to say this wasn’t shocking news for me. I mentioned the baby to a friend who was surprised; he said he didn’t know anyone from his high school who had ever been pregnant. I realized I can’t even name them all off the top of my head, and that is somewhat disturbing.
In the wake of another Michigan Pride Festival, a chance to celebrate and educate people about Michigan’s gay population, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some have begun talking about overturning the ban on same-sex marriages voters passed in the state in 2004.
To those who knew him, Dorian Dawkins was a go-getter and a team player. The 14-year-old son of Saginaw High School basketball coach Lou Dawkins collapsed Friday night during his team’s game in MSU’s Team Shootout tournament at IM Sports-East. He died after being taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing by ambulance.
If you’ve ever woken up to discover your text message outbox full and your mind a bit hazy on how it got that way, you can probably testify along with other bizarre, bold and dirty texters that a cell phone “send” button has no restrictions.
East Lansing residents might soon be able to participate in city meetings without leaving the comfort of their homes. The Cable, Internet and Technology Commission presented a report to City Council on Tuesday that discussed the future of telecommunications in the city.
A 30-year-old male student reported his laptop and laptop bag stolen Wednesday from a locker in the Music Practice Building, MSU police Sgt.
For Monique Goch, the Michigan Pride Festival is more than a celebration. Goch went to the festival for the first time in 1997 after coming out as a lesbian at age 26. She now serves as the festival’s outreach coordinator. “It’s very personal to me because I didn’t come out until I was 26,” Goch said. “I really needed that energy. I needed someone to say it’s OK, and now if we do that, look at our response. We have so many allies here.” The Michigan Pride festival, march, and the Michigan Equality Rally & Commitment Ceremony took place Saturday among a number of events that took place this weekend as part of Michigan Pride 2009. The festival was held at Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing and attracted more than 12,000 people.
An employee from Adobe Systems Inc. will be on campus to display some of the company’s upcoming software at 7 p.m. on June 16 in Room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.
Business owners in Michigan are anticipating better economic times in the future, according to a recent survey released in the semi-annual Future Business Index, a study funded by Lansing-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America.
The city of East Lansing is hosting its 13th annual Summer Solstice Jazz Festival June 19-20. The festival will be held in Parking Lot 1, located on the corner of Albert Avenue and Abbot Road.
Nationally renowned polar explorer Will Steger told an audience of nearly 100 people about his experiences of walking on thin ice because of the effects of global warming when he spoke Sunday at Playmakers Athletic Footwear, 2299 W. Grand River Ave., in Okemos.
The green sign over the Grand River Avenue property is new, but Collegeville Textbook Company’s plan is to offer something old. The store, which will sell mostly used textbooks, will open this week in what used to be Memo’s, 321 E. Grand River Ave. It is the newest of five textbook stores in East Lansing and the third newest on Grand River Avenue.
In spite of being about eight years away from completion, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is already accelerating beams of excitement throughout MSU’s campus and in the community.
Friday’s closure of Green River Café, 211 M.A.C. Ave., could be proof that East Lansing residents are not prepared for the green revolution, employee Grace O’Connor said.
Coming off an election year where we had a fairly calm presidential campaign in terms of competition and a Congress that moved even further toward partisanship, we have seen a persistent trend that has plagued this country for decades.