If the top floors of some residence halls were to go ablaze, the East Lansing Fire Department doesn’t have a ladder truck able to reach them. That will soon change, as the department learned earlier this month it had been awarded a $531,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. The department will use the money to buy a 100-foot aerial ladder truck.
East Lansing City Council members took a first step in bringing industrial growth to the city by setting a Jan. 20 hearing date for the creation of an Industrial Development District at Tuesday’s council meeting. The district would designate facilities at unspecified locations for future tax incentives in an effort to lure industries to the city.
Theirs was a love story that could rival Romeo and Juliet. He was a boy trapped in a Holocaust concentration camp. She was a young Jewish girl in hiding who threw him apples over a fence. Years after the boy was liberated and the war ended, a chance blind date in New York City brought them together. They would marry months later.
As part a new partnership between IBM and MSU, students and graduates won’t have to look farther than south campus to find a job. A new computer programming center scheduled to begin operations on campus this spring is expected to create 1,500 new jobs during the next five years. The center is the first of its kind in the U.S. and will work in conjunction with MSU’s recruiting, education and research, IBM and MSU officials said.
A new college tuition funding plan enacted Tuesday could make secondary education significantly more affordable for Michigan students from low-income areas. Legislation signed into law by Gov. Jennifer Granholm will allow up to 10 communities to create “Promise Zones,” where funds can be collected from private donors and state education tax breaks to pay for graduating students’ college tuition.
Two familiar faces will continue to hold leadership positions on the MSU Board of Trustees, after members of the board elected Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster to serve their second consecutive terms as chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively.
In a world of pizza places using premade crusts and frozen ingredients, one newcomer to East Lansing is turning to freshness to set itself apart. Marco’s Pizza, 3498 Lake Lansing Road, prides itself on quality ingredients.
During the holiday season, evergreens symbolized joy and the spirit of giving, but now, in East Lansing, they symbolize wood chips. Sanitation workers spent the past two Mondays collecting Christmas trees from curbs and chipping them to mulch in an effort to recycle and ease landscaping costs. The mulch from the discarded trees will be spread in local parks this summer.
Research institutes and upgrades to the ANGEL system were a couple of the issues discussed at the first Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting of the new year. ECAC endorsed the creation of the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research as well as the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The first of the two will work with cyber-enabled discovery, which is using computers for research.
The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is seven days away, and MSU students — along with millions of others from across the nation — are planning trips to Washington, D.C., to witness the event. Below is a list of items students should keep in mind if they’re heading to the nation’s capital.
As the search for missing MSU horticulture student Krista Lueth enters a third month, friends and family are awaiting closure to a painful process. Roy Lueth, Krista Lueth’s father, said Monday he’s hoping the $5,000 in reward money he has offered for information will help lead to her discovery, whether she is found alive or dead.
The moment international relations sophomore Brad Parker learned President-elect Barack Obama won, he knew he and his friends would be in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration Jan. 20.
Service organizations such as Teach For America and the Peace Corps are seeing increased interest among MSU students as the job market declines.
Better design flexibility and parking options are two of several proposed changes to the Delta Triangle, an area of land along Louis Street that potentially could be rezoned for the creation of more multiple-student and multiple-family homes.
A plethora of pizza joints already maintain a steady hold on East Lansing, especially along Grand River Avenue. That means restaurants need more than just good food to set themselves apart.
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the MSU Jazz Orchestra I, Vocal Jazz Ensemble I and Voices of Total Praise will present concerts at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, has announced plans to expand its popular eastern black rhino exhibit. The proposed renovation will expand the indoor rhino facility and feature two enlarged outdoor habitats to create a more natural environment.
Four years ago, representatives for a car company turned to MSU entomology professor Howard Russell for help on a paint job.
The Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will host the 11th annual Lansing Boat Show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The selection of the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration has outraged some members of MSU’s ?Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender and Straight Alliance Students, or LBGTSA.