Christopher John Foley, 18, pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to three to 15 years Thursday in the murder case of MSU student Dustyn Frolka.
An MSU professor has developed a revolutionary new type of artificial intelligence (AI), and he's bringing it to the world of video games for its first real-world application. Dr. Arend Hintze, assistant professor for integrative biology and computer science and engineering at MSU, has developed a new form of AI that can adapt and learn over time through a process similar to Darwinian evolution. "All these systems (Watson, Siri) which are these super-great hallmarks of artificial intelligence are really expert systems that have no general purpose intelligence, like a cockroach, for example," Hintze said.
Computer science senior Ethan Boyd sat in class learning about the potential dangers of food processing. Figures, such as a projected nine percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from animal agricultural in the United States according to John Hopkins Center, and many others opened his eyes growing concerns. He was not alone.
A standout performance from junior forward Aerial Powers helped the #18 Spartans (15-4, 6-2 Big Ten) capture a 68-56 victory over Purdue (15-5, 6-3) on Wednesday night.
In the world of sports, the coaches and players tend to receive all the acclaim, glory and either wanted or unwanted celebrity statuses.
Two members of the Flint City Council attended MSU's Council of Graduate Students', COGS, first monthly meeting of 2016. The meeting took place on Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. inside the International Center.
The No. 18 ranked MSU women's basketball team hosted Big Ten opponent Purdue on Wednesday in a gritty defensive battle. MSU won by a final score of 68-56 and was able to climb into third place in the Big Ten standings.
Elizabeth’s case, like the two others mishandled in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, report from Sept. 1, 2015, highlights an issue in the way MSU handles sexual assault and harassment cases that the university is working to address through revisions and updates to its sexual assault and relationship violence policy.
Austin Thornton has always had a knack for shooting. Playing in high school at Cedar Springs High School, he averaged 26 points per game his senior season, shooting 49.8 percent from the field and 86.3 percent from the free-throw line. In fact, he holds the Michigan High School record for most made free throws with 572 and places second with 54 consecutive makes from the charity stripe.
"Moving home" is the way Marty Sturgeon, The State News' general manager, described the publications move from its current space on the first floor of 435 E. Grand River Ave. to the second floor of 435 E. Grand River Ave.
A strong, determined and intelligent woman, Ann Sherman started her successful life and career from simple, humble beginnings.
Regardless of its name, the weight room of Snyder Hall does not contain any weights or barbells. Other residence hall workout areas have the same issue. The rooms are either lacking in equipment or contain damaged equipment.
Finance junior Nick Bonaccini and second-year member of the Spartan Ski Club was one of almost 500 MSU students to pack into seven buses and travel cross country to Keystone, Colorado, during winter break.
Founded just shy of seventy years ago, the MSU Press publishes 30 to 40 works a year and helps MSU to stand out among american colleges for a variety of reasons.
Recent state, local and national elections have seen pitiful attendance from millennial, specifically student, voters. Studies have shown a steadily declining number of student voters since the tumult of the 2008 election.
In this year's installment of Coaches vs. Cancer, teams all across the nation are honoring the late Spartan basketball super fan Lacey Holsworth, by wearing golden shoelaces in a movement known as "Lace up for Lacey."
On cold winter mornings, afternoons, evenings, whichever pleased the local East Lansing kids that day, a hodge podge of kids could be found on flooded and frozen fields in local parks. The local gathering holes, the multiple ice skating rinks found in East Lansing, provided a way to make friends, memories and teach lessons. Some speculate East Lansing city officials were responsible for creating the fun while others speculate it was the East Lansing Fire Department. Nonetheless, whoever spawned the slick rinks ultimately halted it too. But now after a long hiatus, an East Lansing ice rink is back, in a new form and coming to Valley Court Park.
With only 10 games left in the regular season, the No. 12 MSU men's basketball team (17-4, 4-4 Big Ten) is looking at every game as an important one.
Their website describes them as “relentlessly chordgasmic.” The group's name is State of Fifths and they are one of the seven student a cappella groups on MSU’s campus. Although the different a cappella groups on campus have their own distinct styles and characteristics, what now sets State of Fifths apart from the others in the credentials department is that they performed the opening act for the world-renowned a cappella concert experience, Vocalosity, Tuesday night at Wharton Center.
