Michigan State University has offered support to researchers who have had federal funding slashed via a $5 million pool of funding for MSU researchers to take advantage of. So far, the Jenison Fund has awarded financial support to 64 recipients. The support has allowed MSU faculty and graduate students to continue their research and support their work while they pursue alternative means to fund research.
While many Michigan State students spend their freshman and sophomore years in the dorms before heading off-campus, some upperclassmen are committed to campus housing. For most, the decision is less about nostalgia and more about convenience and keeping costs down.
Michigan State University's Recycling Center is participating in the 2026 Campus Race for Zero Waste, a competition extended to campuses across the country with the goal of motivating colleges to reuse, reduce and recycle. Presently, MSU is leading in cardboard recycled per capita, a subcategory in which they've won back-to-back championships.
Dorms are in some ways the center of social life for freshman and sophomores at MSU. In recent decades, they've also been the site of antics and shenanigans.
Sparty's introduced Ai Energy and Bum Energy as replacements to Alani and Celsius after the brands became too expensive to carry. With the unfamiliarity of the new drinks, some student skepticism has followed.
A general meeting recap of ASMSU's General Assembly meeting on 2/19/2026, where a new record of 21 bills was passed.
A review of last week’s accidental emergency notification, which incited panic across the Michigan State University community, has yet to be completed. But the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety is pretty sure what went wrong. According to DPPS officials, the human error which resulted in students, staff, faculty and parents receiving the notification involved a Security and Operations Center employee who, during a routine test, accidentally clicked the wrong button.
ASMSU passes Bill 62-83, which progresses toward reimplementing direct popular elections for the ASMSU President after its last attempt fell through two years prior.
Michigan State University’s Facility of Rare Isotope Beams held an inauguration for the K500 Chip Testing Facility through a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, recognizing the completion and operational launch of a refurbished superconducting cyclotron, originally built in the 1980s.
The Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organization on campus, is investigating 11 College of Education courses by way of a Freedom of Information Act request. The student organization hopes to use responsive documents from the FOIA to prove that the college is pushing anti-white curriculum and limiting academic freedom. The probe is being aided by the group's national division, Young American's Foundation, and has the blessing of Republican legislators.
East Lansing City Council further postponed the vote on a controversial public camping ban ordinance following increased pushback from homelessness advocates at a council meeting on Tuesday. The ordinance is part of East Lansing Police Chief Jen Brown’s attempt to introduce solutions to reduce violence downtown after unlawful pepper spray and Taser usage by city police officers during MSU’s Welcome Week.
Last Friday, Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees voted to demolish the historic IM West by spring 2027. And while the structure itself will no longer exist, its decades of history will live on through memories of the Spartan community.
Civil Rights leader Jesse L. Jackson died at the age of 84, his son announced Tuesday morning. The leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. visited campus five times throughout his life.
Former Michigan State University professor filed an intent to sue in January, alleging discrimination on the basis of sex.
