Student representation in academic governance is at a low this year, with nearly half of the seats reserved on MSU committees for undergraduates empty.
Four MSU graduate students, as part of their social work class, have begun advocating for increased free parking options on campus in the evenings. Their work has extended beyond the classroom into a fully fledged campaign where they proposed three recommendations to an MSU traffic and transportation advisory committee.
Chef Paulina Ayala Rivas' journey from Mexico to the US, and the life experiences she has had along the way gave her a unique perspective ahead of a regional culinary competition.
Ahead of this week's matchups between MSU's men's basketball and hockey teams against UConn, energized students are rallying around “UConn Hate Week.”
U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will hold a rally on Michigan State's campus Tuesday, April 7, that aims to re-energize student voters on issues of student debt relief, economic justice and workers' rights ahead of the August primary.
As Michigan State University gradually welcomes larger incoming class sizes every year, attention is turning to how campus resources and student services are adapting to accommodate a growing student population.
Michigan State University students are advocating to establish a green space on campus that prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages and other drugs year-round. Advocates in student government and other organizations committed to students in recovery are seeking to establish this “substance-free” zone in the courtyard between Mason and Abbott Halls, an area they argue surrounds frequent traffic during MSU home-game tailgates.
The war in Iran has deeply divided Iranians living in the U.S. Some Iranian students and faculty at MSU say they support the war effort, arguing that the current government must be replaced.
MSU hosted the inaugural panel of the Presidential Speakers Series moderated by President Kevin Guskiewicz with panelists Margaret Spellings, Ted Mitchell and Richard Burr.
Michigan State University is renaming a planned event originally meant to honor civil rights icon César Chávez after a New York Times report detailing the allegations of sexual abuse agains him was published Wednesday.
Following months of public debate, East Lansing City Council nixed a controversial public camping ban Tuesday after homelessness advocates denounced the legislation as criminalizing the homeless.
In a society where “online troll” has become a term of derision, indulging the impulse to write off the bizarre internet subculture risks missing out on all it reveals.
The MSU Plant Biology Teaching Conservatory and Greenhouse is a facility designed to showcase a wide botanical collection to the general public for free. Yet, few students know about the evolution room, the desert-like arid room, and the tropical room within the conservatory’s walls.
The Mid-Michigan Graduate Women in Science chapter and campus RSO hosted a Girls in Math and Science Day on March 14. This year’s event had the highest attendance since the pandemic, with an estimated 150 kids, 150 volunteers and 80 parents in attendance.
A perplexing exam — on which a high score could help confer a full-ride scholarship to Michigan State — attracted hundreds of ambitious high school seniors to East Lansing last month.
State Rep. Josh Schriver, R-Oxford, spoke to members of MSU’s Turning Point USA chapter Wednesday evening, doubling down that the lack of response from the university regarding a controversial syllabus may prompt budget reconsiderations.
Michigan State University will consolidate the College of Human Medicine and College of Osteopathic Medicine into a unified college of medicine. The announcement was made earlier today by MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz, and follows over a year of discussion and research after the merger was first brought to the floor by Guskiewicz as part of his “One Team, One Health” initiative in February 2025.
Michigan state Sen. and U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow emphasized the need for continual federal funding for MSU and outlined her stance on immigration enforcement and military aid for Israel during a visit to a College Democrats meeting.
The Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Michigan’s anti-hazing law, allowing former Pi Alpha Phi “pledge master” Ethan Cao to be tried for the 2021 death of Phat Nguyen.
A Michigan State University student is alleging that a dangerous obstruction on MSU’s campus led to an accident while she was a passenger on an athletics department golf cart. The student sustained injuries to her right hand while on a golf cart that collided with a stone pillar in front of Campbell Hall.