Gov. Jennifer Granholm addressed MSU students Wednesday morning on the steps of the Administration Building and encouraged them to fight for the Michigan Promise Scholarship.
JanSport founder Skip Yowell came to Erickson Hall Kiva on Tuesday night and brought with him the living embodiment of his personal philosophy. The Telluride Mountainfilm Tour brought six original films to the MSU community “to inspire young people,” Yowell said. The tour is a mix of independent films from the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.
Although the city of Lansing has announced plans to unveil a system that will alert residents of emergencies, road closings, sports cancellations and more, city officials said no similar system currently is planned for East Lansing.
The smoke still has not cleared between the Michigan House and Senate on whether state residents should be allowed to enjoy cigarettes while dining.
In the midst of American Indian Heritage Month, two student groups at MSU were trying to connect Tuesday night and share the difficulties indigenous people face in their societies.
For Residential College in the Arts and Humanities sophomore Michael Steinfield, inspiration came in the form of three simple words.
A team of MSU researchers hope virtual battles with the mythical Greek creatures medusa and cyclops might deliver a debilitating blow to claims made by some entertainment-driven digital health games.
During the next two years, MSU researchers will use a $150,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to determine the motivational factor of a virtual workout partner.
MSU is accepting donations of nonperishable food and personal care items this week for a drive to benefit both the Greater Lansing Food Bank and MSU Student Food Bank.
Six MSU students played the role of economists when they participated in the Federal Reserve Challenge on Nov. 9 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where the team placed in the final four — the best any MSU team has placed.
There are not many instances in which history would demonize a man responsible for covertly sending 1,600 Jewish people to safety in the face of a Nazi invasion, but that is the controversy surrounding Israel Kasztner.
Megan Stratton gets most of her extra spending money from baby-sitting families in the East Lansing area, and, to make it easier on her clients, she sometimes allows parents to drop their children off at her apartment.
Friendship Baptist Church still isn’t complete. Its members are waiting on a final piece — a pipe organ. Since 2002, the church’s members have been working to bring the sound they miss from their old sanctuary to their new place of worship at 2912 Pleasant Grove Road, in Lansing.
MSU’s Department of Theatre will perform its first show of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at 7:30 p.m. today at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
The Lansing Board of Water and Light will exchange old strands of incandescent holiday lights for new strands of LED holiday lights Thursday.
Taxi cabs now will be parked on M.A.C. Avenue starting today.
The East Lansing City Council will appoint a new mayor and mayor pro tem at its 7:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
After ticket prices were announced Monday for U2’s June 30 Spartan Stadium concert, students said they expect the “lower priced” event to be a hit.
A pair of green eyes stared blankly at Jane Wankmiller as the anthropology doctoral student aimed her camera at the black man’s face. Flashes of light from her camera momentarily illuminated the lifeless eyes, but they did not blink. She examined the face one last time before she tugged one of the ears, watching as it peeled away from the skull she spent the past eight weeks transforming into a facial reconstruction of a deceased person.
A 12-year-old Iraqi boy is looking forward to taking off the hats he always wears after a series of reconstructive surgeries provided free of charge by an MSU surgeon, which are progressing on schedule and slated for completion by the end of January.