East Lansing officials are determining their "coolest" ideas this week, as they outline future projects in a state grant application that will be sent to the governor's office. The application is for a grant that could add $100,000 for improvements to the city in accordance with Gov.
Grants for 38 new research projects in the 2004 fiscal year have been awarded by Project GREEEN, totaling more than $952,200. Project GREEEN, which stands for Generating Research and Extension to meet Environmental and Economic Needs, is Michigan's plant agriculture initiative at MSU. Projects were awarded funding in four categories: basic research, value-added research, applied research and extension/education/demonstration. There were 78 new project proposals and 36 continuation proposals this year. For listings of 2004 newly funded and continuing Project GREEEN research projects, visit www.greeen.msu.edu/newspage.htm.
Ninety white-gloved hands move in unison. The children lift their hands to sign "glory" with a circle around and over their heads. To sing "It's so good to know God is just a prayer away," they move quickly, ending with a drawn-out sign, left hands held close to the chest while the right hands stretch out from the body. The children's choir, called God's Heavenly Hands & God's Joyous Singers, is made up of 45 hearing youth from Detroit and the surrounding areas. They travel locally, regionally and nationally to perform spiritual songs for both the hearing and the hearing-impaired. "Our goal was to learn to sign to grow spiritually ourselves and to, through song, bring the hearing impaired to Jesus Christ," choir director Vivian Hughes said.
The regularly scheduled Tuesday evening East Lansing City Council meeting has been rescheduled in observance of Passover. "Passover is a religious observance for part of the community," said Judith Taran, East Lansing communication director. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m.
History can be relived at the touch of a button at the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library. Tucked away in the fourth floor west wing of the MSU library, more than 50,000 voices and sounds are housed, creating the nation's largest academic voice library. Its earliest recording is a Sept.
Time was almost running out for former Spartans defenseman Brad Fast to record his first NHL goal in his professional debut with the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday. With less than three minutes left in regulation, Fast's wrister went past Miami goaltender Roberto Luongo to force the game into overtime.
Wisconsin detectives' search for a woman's abductor should not be criticized even if the so-called victim made him up.
The MSU College of Education's primary- and secondary-education programs each were ranked No.
MSU police received reports of an armed robbery in the Brody Complex on Sunday evening, but upon further investigation, officers discovered it was a larceny. MSU police Sgt.
Wow. Congratulations, Erin Ruth, for doing research and being on your way to receiving a degree in "nutritional science." Now let me bring Ruth into the real world.
A global advertising expert will give a guest lecture this week for a one-credit course in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
Bent wheels, worn shocks and damaged frames are common complaints at Jerry's Automotive in Lansing this time of year. Michigan's rough roads create 10 to 15 percent of the shop's auto repair and maintenance business, said Roger Mathews, manager of the store, located at 5544 S.
Despite a record-setting performance from its star pitcher, the MSU softball team endured a rocky start to its Big Ten season this past weekend. Two losses in a doubleheader at Iowa on Sunday capped a four-game road trip for the Spartans (19-13 overall, 1-3 Big Ten). Before falling to the Hawkeyes (22-15, 4-0), MSU split a pair of games at Illinois, losing, 7-1, in its Big Ten opener on Friday and winning, 2-0, on Saturday.
There is no doubt that before John Sinclair took the stage at Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St.
A local tanning salon was robbed Friday, leaving police looking for two suspects who might have been armed at the time of the robbery. A man and a woman entered B-Tan, 233 E.
After nearly two decades on the block, John Novak said he has witnessed many a small business' rise and fall on Grand River Avenue. Novak reopened Wazoo Records, 619 E.
Well, it takes a charismatic front person with an amazing set of pipes, some dark lyrics and some punk- and hard rock-influenced guitar, heavy bass and hard-hitting drum beats.
Audra Hunsberger jabbed a plastic knife at her assailant Sunday night at IM Sports-West, but self-defense instructor Sally Belloli batted the weapon away, avoiding a potential poke to the rib cage. The pair took part in "Combating an Armed Attack," a self-defense program that taught participants how to protect themselves from assailants wielding knives, clubs or guns.
If the first four games of the Big Ten season are any indication of how MSU's season will go, finishing in the top half of the league won't be a problem. The Spartans baseball team dominated the Hawkeyes over the weekend, recording the team's first four-game sweep since 1990 while earning the conference's top spot. "We'd certainly rather be there than the alternative," head coach Ted Mahan said.
Police are investigating an early Sunday morning incident near the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house that left one fraternity member in critical condition at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital. East Lansing police Sgt.