Michigan State University frequently in the headlines in early December 2025 with a series of major announcements the largest donation in university history. Public records later revealed Greg and Dawn Williams had filed a nonbinding letter of intent for their $401 million gift two months before its public announcement.
"Hadestown" will perform at Wharton from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1.
From Jan. 23 - 31, Lansing’s first Olive Burger Week will take place in various participating local restaurants. Dubbed as the Olive Burger Capital, Lansing restaurants will celebrate by providing customers with their own unique takes on the classic olive burger. Co-hosted by Lansing Foodies and Lansing 5:01, Olive Burger Week will feature a variety of local restaurants.
Roughly 75 students and community members packed into an expo-style open house in a large conference room at the Lansing Center on Saturday morning to ask questions and express concerns over a proposed data center.
A team of professors and students based in RCAH facilitates Lansing's music scene through a new record label.
Knowing angry drivers will post pictures of them online, parking enforcers go to lengths to conceal their faces while out on the job. Online harassment and verbal abuse is routine, some say, and more than once, parking lot spats required police intervention.
Frigid temperatures pushed much of the State of Michigan indoors Friday, with the exception of Michigan State University students who still had in-person classes to attend — much to their displeasure.
A lawsuit filed by a Michigan State University professor accusing MSU of making false allegations of professional misconduct was dismissed by a judge earlier this week. The judge concluded that James Anthony, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and his attorneys did not provide proper evidence to show that MSU violated his due process rights — an allegation present in the initial suit.
A recap of the bills passed and reports from certain members of the ASMSU Office of the President on January 22, 2026.
Students will not be permitted to wait in the cold temperatures before this weekend's men's basketball and hockey games.
Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five and a New York City council member, spoke at Michigan State University’s Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Forum about his wrongful conviction in the Central Park jogger case.
A Michigan State University collective launched with the intention of bolstering the state’s workforce and economy has announced its three initiatives designed to achieve those goals. Feedback to the "Green and White Council" initiatives has been mixed however, as MSU’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution Tuesday evening pushing back against these plans. Several faculty members argued that some curriculum changes which the initiatives propose overstep traditional academic governance procedures.
Alongside the Venezuelan cause, protestors opposed increased ICE raids and voiced support for Michigan to divest from the state of Israel.
Former Michigan State University Faculty Senate Chair Jack Lipton, who has been engaged in a lengthy dispute with two MSU trustees, which eventually prompted a lawsuit over a year ago, has reached a settlement with the two trustees. Lipton will receive $300,000 from the university as part of the settlement.
A joint event between UAB and CHAARG promotes both clubs at the start of the semester with crafts and treats.
Michigan's 15 public universities collectively contributed $45 billion dollars to the state's economy during fiscal year 2024, a data point schools are using to ask for more future funding. MSU's share of that contribution was $6.8 billion, or roughly 15%.
In two acts earlier this week a Jewish Center located off of Michigan State University’s campus in Downtown East Lansing was vandalized. The Jewish Center, MSU Chabad, had rocks thrown at its windows and “Nazi symbols” spray-painted on the building’s front door on two separate days, according to a press release from the East Lansing Police Department.
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees' Friday board meeting featured parallel celebrations of university leaders and faculty concerns over the impact of budget cuts on the institution's educational mission.
The MSU Board of Trustees voted to enter into a strategic brand management agreement with the recently created Spartan Ventures, which is expected to produce a for-profit entity called Spartan Media Ventures.
