The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers might have struggled to keep a presence at MSU in past semesters, but this semester has started out stronger than ever thanks to a student’s initiative.
The MSU Museum kicked off Darwin Week by hosting an interactive event on Sunday afternoon. Darwin Discovery Day was meant to celebrate Charles Darwin’s birthday coming up on Feb.
Local auto repair shops are thriving this winter due to treacherous road conditions.
An MSU graduate student recently was honored for his research regarding the containment of oil spills.
At a women’s convention, a man sprinting down the center aisle in a sparkling red dress might seem a peculiar sight.
Lil Sibs Weekend is an opportunity for eager little siblings to visit their Spartan idols.
President Obama, after an address to political dignitaries, the media and MSU community members, signed signed the farm bill into law Friday afternoon on MSU’s campus. In front of a backdrop of artifacts from pastoral America, including a tractor and hay bales, his remarks before the signing highlighted agriculture’s importance to the economy, and emphasized the ways in which the legislation would benefit farmers throughout the country.
Air Force One touched down at Capital Region International Airport around 12 p.m. today. President Obama disembarked with a wave, alongside Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., an MSU alumna and the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, elected Kiran Samra as its new president on Thursday evening.
Like Willy Wonka’s golden tickets, only in phone call and email form, a few select students have received invitations to see President Barack Obama sign the new farm bill into law Friday afternoon on campus. Excitement was universal among all those who received invitations.
The issue of security remains up for discussion within state government following the escape of convicted murderer Michael David Elliot from the Ionia Correctional Facility this past week.
Graduates from Michigan universities soon may have a bigger incentive to stay in the state with the help of a newly proposed bill.
Haslett resident Gail Catron is the owner of the handmade fair trade shop Kirabo , 225 E. Grand River Ave.
With the heat pumping into off-campus homes surrounding MSU during the frigid months, utility bills are skyrocketing, and even more so than in previous years. The high cost of this winter’s heating bills have some students grasping at straws to make their payments, DTN Area Director Emilie Wohlschied said. “I think everyone is feeling the pinch as far as the awful winter that we’ve been having,” Wohlschied said.
On Wednesday night, a committee of six community members featuring former East Lansing City Council members and community activists was appointed to review the handling of Lansing Board of Water and Light’s response to a December power outage.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, passed a bill to advocate against a housing inspection bill, Senate Bill 313, which is currently making its way through Michigan Senate.
For political science professor Laura Reese, volunteering to help abandoned animals started as a part-time hobby.
The American Red Cross recently declared an “urgent need” for blood donors, which coincides with a blood drive competition that pits MSU against rival University of Michigan.
President Barack Obama plans to sign the Agriculture Act of 2014, often referred to as the farm bill, at the Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center Friday afternoon. Students hoping to catch a glimpse of Obama when he visits MSU’s campus Friday will be sorely disappointed, however, as the event is closed to the public. The farm bill legislation was passed by both chambers of Congress on Tuesday. White House officials waited until the latest farm bill had been passed by Congress to release details about the event. MSU has a number of ties to the farm bill. The Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee is MSU alumna Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. The university was founded as the nation’s first agricultural college under the name Agricultural College of the State of Michigan. Agriculture stayed in the university’s name until 1964, when Michigan Agricultural College became Michigan State University. MSU President Lou Anna K.
During a trial in Livingston County last week, convicted I-96 shooter Raulie Casteel testified that he spent time in both Michigan and Kentucky practicing his shot in farm fields. But on Tuesday in Oakland County Circuit Court, it was the hours that he didn’t spend on his own shooting range that saved him years of prison time, according to Judge Denise Langford Morris. Although no one was killed in the shooting spree Casteel went on along the I-96 corridor in the fall of 2012, Langford Morris said that was nothing to be proud of. “Thank goodness you were a lousy shot,” Langford Morris said during sentencing. Casteel, a 44-year-old MSU alumnus, was sentenced to 6.5 to 10 years in prison on Tuesday on multiple assault and weapons charges, which he pleaded no contest to last October.