The Portage-based Wolverine Pipe Line Company held a simulated oil spill response drill Wednesday morning to prepare the company’s workers in case an oil spill ever occurred in the Red Cedar River.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, still is accepting applications for event funding for graduate student organizations, or GSOs, for the remainder of the semester.
When two groups of hospitality business students in professor Bonnie Knutson’s Applied Marketing Lodging class turned in their capstone projects, they received much more than a passing grade.
A group of at least four people was pulled from the elevator at the Division Street parking ramp Wednesday night by East Lansing fire officials, after being stuck in the elevator for an undetermined period of time.
Although the speed limit on Grand River Avenue was increased last week after state officials said it was posted improperly, hundreds of students and residents who were ticketed on the section of road in question likely won’t see any reimbursement.
For Alexis Bremer, coming to MSU right out of high school wasn’t an option. Because of the high cost of tuition and uncertainty of what degree she wanted to pursue, Bremer said she chose to attend a community college for her first two years of school before transferring to a larger university.
Sparty has qualified for the chance to be named national champion once again in the 2012 UCA/UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship Jan.
The death of sociology senior Stephanie Fluegeman’s pet hedgehog came unexpectedly.
As students are debating the value of gender-neutral housing on campus, MSU faculty and staff are dealing with some of the same concerns.
At Tuesday’s Faculty Senate, members discussed the University Committee on Curriculum report, which shows the new, changed and deleted programs and courses.
A farmer stands in his fields and stares at his withered crops, unsure of what has caused them to wilt. He pulls out his smart phone and quickly scans his crops. An application identifies what is ailing his crops and tells the farmer what he can do. It’s not science fiction, it’s Gene-Z — an application recently developed by an MSU professor.
During this time of year, blood normally is associated with the gore and fear that comes with Halloween. But a few MSU clubs are looking at blood in a different way.
After passing a bill in support of a universitywide preferred name policy last week, ASMSU — MSU’s undergraduate student government — plans to hold further discussions about the policy with MSU officials this week.
They roam campus in tight bunches, touring everything from athletic venues to dorms and cafeterias. These high school students want to see it all before they decide to become Spartans, and the Spartan Ambassadors make sure they get a grand tour of campus.
MSU is at the top of the popularity ladder among in-state colleges, according to a Department of Education survey.
Surrounded by cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and musical performances, hundreds of people gathered Friday at the Spartan Club in Spartan Stadium for a gala benefiting the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum.
Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his administration’s plans to provide relief to debt-ridden college graduates, a new report issued by the Institute for College Access and Success shows graduating seniors in 2010 continued to leave college with a rising amount of debt.
Growing up in a single-parent home in Detroit hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Destin Murry. As a middle school student in the Detroit Public Schools system, Murry is one of 25-30 children in MSU’s My Brother’s Keeper program.
From researching the meaning behind his plays to learning how to speak in iambic pentameter for the first time, students and community members have been coming MSU to better understand William Shakespeare’s plays since last week.
Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. The five D’s of dodgeball were on display Friday as the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority held a charity dodgeball game to help raise money for arthritis.