Dozens of pages with hastily scribbled notes are crammed into a leather-covered binder on a table in Nancy Cotter’s house. Inside are records of every phone call, every inquiry, every plea she has made to answer the question that has devastated her for more than a year: How did her daughter, Rylan, die on Jan. 7, 2008?
Two recent studies by MSU researches could advance the biofuels industry. Chemical engineering and materials science professor Bruce Dale and his team of researchers found evidence against previous arguments that producing biofuels creates more greenhouse gas than it offsets.
By working with community groups and cracking down on traffic violations, MSU police earned the 2008 Excellence in Traffic Safety Award from the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, or MACP.
Star-crossed sea lampreys might soon have a serious case of heartbreak. Researchers Weiming Li and Nicholas Johnson and their team have found a way to synthesize the pheromone, or chemical, that attracts female lampreys to male lampreys. They hope to use it to lure the females into traps to help control the lamprey population, Johnson said.
Two sexual assaults in two days are causing concern among law enforcement officers and students as police search for suspects in the crimes. After a student reported being sexually assaulted Tuesday afternoon while walking along Hagadorn Road near Hubbard Hall, another assault was reported to MSU police Wednesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
An important part of Rosetta Sloan’s diet has disappeared from MSU cafeterias. Sloan, who avoids eating meat when possible, is searching for other sources of protein this week after the university pulled peanut butter products in precaution of a nationwide salmonella outbreak.
Au Gres, Mich. — Seventy-seven years after leaving MSU a few credits short of graduation, Fred Sheill stood in the foyer of his house Monday proudly sporting a green-and-white MSU T-shirt.
Abortion rights community members gathered Wednesday to celebrate and educate others about Roe v. Wade, which legalized first-trimester abortions in 1973. Today is the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is proposing an adviser rating system similar to how professors are rated at the end of each semester.
The East Lansing Film Society Film Series will show the film “Frozen River” from 4-7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, and at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Feb. 6-8 at Wells Hall. Admission is $7 for the public and $3 for students.
Facebook.com could double as a study tool this spring for select students in MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
The need to bring more business to East Lansing was the theme of Tuesday’s City Council meeting, as members examined several ordinances aimed at future development.
As of noon Tuesday, the nation is in Barack Obama’s hands. In front of a crowd estimated to exceed one million people, Obama assumed the presidency from George W. Bush and became the first African American president in U.S. history.
A pickpocket walked away with a 38-year-old man’s Blackberry Curve outside of Biggby Coffee in the Union Sunday afternoon, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Just because Fletcher Daniels wasn’t in Washington, D.C., doesn’t mean he wasn’t emotionally moved by President Barack Obama’s first words as the 44th president. As the chemistry senior joined about 300 others at the Union Ballroom to watch the historic inauguration, Daniels said he was overwhelmed with emotion.
Seeing President Barack Obama deliver his inaugural address was worth everything — the crowds, cold and early morning, education junior Trisha Langlois said.
The MSU Faculty Council discussed revisions to the tenure system and academic minors at its Tuesday meeting. Provost Kim Wilcox said the revision of the tenure system included a complete review of the policies on granting tenure to professors, in order to bring the system up to date.
When farmers devote entire fields to only one crop, it reduces the number of insects that serve as natural pesticides and causes a negative impact both environmentally and economically, research by MSU scientists concluded.
Not many people would open a campus-related clothing store in the same location where a national chain couldn’t survive. But most people aren’t Daniel Switzer. Switzer and his business partners own Campus Street Sportswear and picked up the lease of the Steve & Barry’s former building at 515 E. Grand River Ave.
MSU wants to avoid problems that plagued the last upgrade of the ANGEL system by helping to test the new version early. The university is set to upgrade either to version 7.4 or 7.3 of ANGEL in mid-May. The last time ANGEL was upgraded in 2007, the system presented numerous technical bugs, causing serious problems for faculty using ANGEL, said David Gift, vice-provost of Libraries, Computing and Technology.