Almost exactly two years after Detroit Free Press reporters M.L Elrick and Jim Schaefer broke news of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s text messaging affair, they are touring Michigan to promote their book, “The Kwame Sutra: Musings on lust, life and leadership from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.”
Students planning for the future now can use an online tool that might make their lives a little easier.
Students in MSU’s College of Human Medicine will have the opportunity to study in China and work alongside Chinese students in East Lansing thanks to a medical education agreement.
Gyms usually have their fill in January as thousands of Americans attempt to lose holiday pounds. With East Lansing workout hotspots bulging with a glut of new January members, MSU alumna Emily Zurek noticed the gyms themselves usually shed more clients than the members do pounds when the calendar flips to February.
Members of Generation Y want to purchase more hybrid vehicles but aren’t very willing to give up a significant portion of their hard-earned green without some benefits, according to an MSU-led survey.
While most MSU students were taking the opportunity to catch up on sleep Sunday, Jo Tic frantically was checking her e-mail and coordinating rides to the MSU Bakery.
Just as a fingerprint or DNA can help police determine people linked to a crime, tattoos now will serve as an identifier thanks to research done by an MSU professor.
Liz Watson had to make a choice. The kinesiology junior was given an opportunity to write a report for her Spanish class last fall or do a service project for credit.
A map would tell people Nigeria and East Lansing are worlds away. Bunmi Akinyemiju would tell people they share a border. Akinyemiju, CEO of Enliven Software, is bringing his automated financial services operation out of East Lansing’s Technology Innovation Center, or TIC, at 325 E. Grand River Ave., to west Africa and Australia as part of a new global operation for his company.
Jodi Potter believes many Michigan residents are missing out on opportunities because of a lack of technology, especially in Upper Peninsula counties.
In most places, 40 degree weather, cold rain and 15 mph winds are not synonymous with ideal swimming conditions. The forecast didn’t faze the colorfully dressed pageant queens, Vikings, Care Bears and half-naked college students who dove into the frigid waters of Eagle Eye Golf Club, 15500 Chandler Road, for the sixth annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge.
Political science and pre-law freshman Nikolai Wasielewski faces charges of conspiracy and accomplice after the fact for his involvement in a Nov. 1, 2009, prank.
East Lansing police Officer Jim Phelps knew he wanted to be a police officer since he was 5 years old. And since 1993, Phelps has hit the pavement as an officer in East Lansing, holding jobs as everything from a patrol officer to a crime scene investigator.
Making it in the restaurant business for a year marks a milestone — but it’s a bittersweet one for Brother’s Grill, 403 E. Grand River Ave., which officially closed Thursday after just more than one year of operation.
East Lansing and the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, officials are discussing discounted parking permits for graduate students to use during class hours at city parking garages, citing mutual benefits for both parties.
Billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, donated another $2 million to help the art museum bearing their name reach its funding goal of $40 million, the university announced Wednesday.
After hearing a tapping noise on her ground floor apartment window about two years ago, Kate found a sticky note with an online screen name secured to the glass. Kate, an MSU graduate student, assumed it was a prank until she found the same note attached to her car a few days later.
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, considered the Democratic front-runner for the Michigan attorney general nomination, exited the race Wednesday.
Changes to several Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus routes scheduled to take effect this month will be postponed until fall 2010.
MSU’s Physical Plant Division and the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. today in the lunch room at the Physical Plant building.