More than 150 people assembled at the Plant and Soil Sciences Building on Friday to witness Michael Thomashow become the first MSU professor to receive the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.The award honors those who have made significant strides in agricultural research in the United States over the past five years.
I wish I knew how fantastic it would be to have a student greenhouse to hang out in right in the center of north campus, behind the Old Horticulture Building.
I would like to congratulate Ryan Wallace for his serious, yet entertaining article regarding pig “toots” and their manure (“Engineers Seek to Make Oinkers’ Odors Smell Sweet,” SN 9/27). You deserve an award for your eloquent choice of words!
I am one of the many graduate students suffering the great misfortune of being represented by the new Graduate Employees Union.
Upon reading that the Board of Trustees is offering free tuition to the children of the victims of the unfortunate event Sept.
The MSU Evening College may be getting older, but officials say they are ready and determined to continue providing people with interesting and enjoyable courses that have made it popular throughout the years. Following its Sept.
MSU Young Americans For Freedom will take to the Capitol steps with fellow students at noon to protest legislation that would enter the state into the Streamlined Sales Tax Project.The multistate Internet tax project is charged with organizing collections from purchases made online.
While teacher shortages continue to be a problem for public school districts across the nation, the East Lansing Public School District remains unaffected by the trend.According to the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 2.4 million teachers will be needed in the next 11 years to fill K-12 classrooms across the country in public school districts.While teacher shortages have been a problem for several years, it has become an important issue only recently in Michigan, said Michigan Education Association spokeswoman Karen Schulz.“Really this is a problem now, but for many years to come, schools will be facing the dilemma of not having enough people out there who want to teach,” she said.Schulz said reasons for the shortage are a high number of retirees and the difficulty of keeping teachers in urban school districts.But Kevin Green, spokesman for the East Lansing Public School District, said the district has not experienced a teacher shortage and doesn’t expect one anytime soon.He said the school district is popular because of the starting salary for teachers and highly rated special education programs.
After finishing fifth at its first tournament, the Spartan women’s golf team jumped to No. 7 up in the Sagarin Golfweek.com rankings.Fellow Big Ten team Ohio State is No.1 in the poll, and Vanderbilt, Auburn, Texas and Tulsa round out the top five.MSU is 19-4-0 on the season.Two Spartans, senior Emily Bastel (11th) and sophomore Allison Fouch (13th) cracked the Golfweek.com’s top 15 individual rankings.
The MSU men’s tennis team spent the weekend at the Tom Fallen Invitational in South Bend, Ind., taking on Wisconsin, Ball State, Purdue and host team Notre Dame. The Spartans defeated Big Ten opponent Wisconsin 4-2 in singles competition.
For the past year, Brandon D’Annunzio’s friends and family have been trying to rebuild their lives the best they can. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the assault of a 24-year-old Michigan Technological University student outside a downtown East Lansing bar.
Evanston, Ill. - The row of MSU players knelt on the sidelines in single file, clasping hands, hoping for just one more miracle. Apparently, it was the Wildcats turn for miracles- again. That 47-yard Northwestern field goal was the improbable ending to a game that defied all logic. “I just hoped we had a few more seconds left,” head coach Bobby Williams said. But the Spartans didn’t.
Lansing - More than 100 peace promoters trekked from the Union to the Capitol on Saturday afternoon to show solidarity for a nonviolent response to the Sept.
The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students took the opportunity to honor Mahatma Gandhi on Saturday by facilitating its second day-long volunteer effort.The event was designed to coincide with Gandhi Day, celebrated on Oct.
There are people in this world who hate our way of life and our foreign policy. These are the people who have so deliberately attacked our nation.
The blocks of Shawn Newstead’s Livonia neighborhood are filled with nearly identical red-brick ranch-style homes with neatly trimmed lawns and middle-class families. But her home is different. A cedar tree adorns her square patch of land.
Gov. John Engler signed a $1.95 billion Higher Education budget for fiscal year 2002 on Friday.The budget increases funding for Michigan’s public universities by $26.8 million or 1.5 percent during the current year.
I knew about five different parties that happened this weekend. One was a techno music party, another was a fraternity party with some kind of theme or other, there was a Ski Club party and two other general house parties on Gunson and Beale streets.I also knew that Jon was planning to hook up with Lisa on Friday, and that the frat party was going to be “totally lame.”I learned about all of this in my math class.
The MSU baseball team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays Amateur Select Baseball Club 14-5 in an exhibition game Sunday at Kobs Field. A six-run sixth inning and a five-run seventh inning propelled the Spartans to their victory. Senior outfielder Chris McCuiston led MSU, going 3-for-5 with six RBIs including a seventh-inning grand slam. Nine pitchers contributed to the Spartans’ win combining for 11 strikeouts, scattering eight hits throughout the game.