The MSU Community Music School will host the seventh annual Eric ‘RicStar’ Winter Music Therapy Camp next week for individuals of special needs as well as their siblings.
msu Great Lakes web site ranked no. 2 The Great Lakes Echo Web site, produced by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at MSU, was named the No.
MSU will receive almost $400,000 in stimulus money for health-care research and training, according to a press release from U.S.
James Pivarnik, an MSU professor of epidemiology, added a line to his résumé last week when he took over as president of the American College of Sports Medicine, the world’s largest exercise medicine organization, at an annual conference in Seattle.
It started with a question the Monday after daylight-saving time in April 2008: How did you like your short night of sleep? For MSU doctoral students Christopher Barnes and David Wagner, finding the answer to that question led to a research project and an article that will be published in the September issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Luther Brown Sr. knows how to bring people together. He’s made a living doing just that for about 24 years. Mr. Party, as he’s more commonly known, picked up his name from friends growing up in Lansing. As an adult, he decided to start a business to capitalize on his unusual talents.
There’s a group of people on campus that you might not know much about. They don’t belong to any formal association, but their presence is noticeable. Are you reading this in Espresso Royale? Do you see a lot of wool clothing? Watch out, you’re surrounded by them. In fact, if you’re drinking coffee and reading a college newspaper opinion column, you might be one yourself. They’re hipsters.
MSU’s nontenured faculty likely will start the process of unionizing after approving a new proposal. Faculty members voted Friday to pursue the possibility of unionizing in hopes of bringing more job security to faculty members without tenure. MSU has smartly supported their potential to unionize, even though it could end up costing the university money.
A 27-year-old female university employee reported her laptop, purse and iPod stolen May 20 from her office in the Center for Integrated Plant Systems, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The criticism surrounding the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court has escalated since her nomination, but MSU faculty are regarding it as nothing more than political chatter.
General Motors Corp. went into bankruptcy protection Monday and the effects will ripple through Michigan with the closure of seven plants, but they might not be detrimental to Lansing, experts say.
Growing up in metro Detroit, Adam Montri, outreach coordinator for the MSU Student Organic Farm, didn’t consider farming to be a career choice. “I definitely grew up in the suburbs and thought of agriculture as something you did on the weekend or after school or that kind of thing,” he said.
Ali Daneshvar doesn’t have his medical degree, but that didn’t matter to the people he brought medicine to in a refugee camp in the Dominican Republic. “It was basically a garbage dump … with a bunch of huts with roofs made of tin,” the MSU osteopathic medicine graduate student said of the camp near the Haitian border.
As chants of “We are the Americans” and “We are the Union” echoed through downtown Lansing on Monday, hundreds gathered at the Capitol, coming together for one common goal: Bring jobs back to Michigan.
The smell of hot dogs will waft through East Lansing by August, when the first National Coney Station, a condensed version of a National Coney Island restaurant, will open, company president Tom Giftos said.
Six East Lansing property owners are applying to change or receive rental licenses, allowing for multi-occupancy residences at today’s City Council meeting. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. tonight at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
Residents of Cowley Avenue might soon be a part of the Chesterfield Hills Historic District if an exploratory committee finds their property meets certain criteria. The historic district, which includes homes of a certain age and type, is up for re-evaluation this year as called for by the plan that established the district.
Are you one of those people who get a coffee at Sparty’s, uses their credit card, and then ignores taking the receipt? Are you one of those people who buys gas with cash and then drives away without even wanting a receipt? Or are you one of those people who feels that speed is more important than waiting a second to receive that little slip of paper that is completely worthless in your life?
While there is still a lot to be decided in Washington, D.C., the U.S. could be on the verge of appointing its first Hispanic justice to the Supreme Court. President Barack Obama nominated New York appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace outgoing Justice David Souter, which could finally bring change to a court that sorely lacks diversity.
It’s just a little bit of déjà vu for the Detroit Red Wings — in more ways than one. One year after facing off against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final, the two are playing each other again this year.