MSU
MSU facility seeks approval from DOE
The MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the U.S.
MSU
Professor to speak on quantum mechanics
Wolfgang Bauer, an MSU professor of physics and astronomy, is giving a speech on quantum mechanics today in Anthony Hall titled “Quantum Computing, the Next Big Thing?” The speech will deal with recent advances in quantum mechanics that allow computers to process exponentially more information than conventional digital processors. Bauer, a native of Germany, has worked on the Cyclotron since 1988 and has been a professor at MSU since 1996. Bauer now works in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and in 2007 was named a University Distinguished Professor. The speech will take place at 11:30 a.m.
MSU
Center honors Celebrate Bisexuality Day
In honor of Celebrate Bisexuality Day, MSU students gathered Thursday at the LBGT Resource Center to share some of their struggles and victories as they held a discussion of issues affecting bisexuals.
MSU
COGS hopes to develop grad student center
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, is working to develop more graduate wellness programs and create a graduate student center on campus, after a survey sent out last spring showed graduate students were concerned about those and other issues.
MSU
Fraternity rush signs vandalized
Passersby on Farm Lane on Thursday might have noticed the fraternity rush signs usually seen this time of year looked a bit different. The signs were vandalized and knocked over sometime during Wednesday or Thursday, Interfraternity Council President Bill Zajac said.
MICHIGAN
City manager given award for service
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton received the Michigan Local Government Management Association’s John M. Patriarche Distinguished Service Award on Wednesday.
MSU
Senator to visit MSU's campus
Government and university officials will be on campus today to celebrate the announcement of five federal grants awarded in Michigan under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
MSU
Construction for Plant Bio lab currently on track
A construction project MSU hopes will advance the university’s standing in the field of plant sciences and attract related grants for research is on track for completion, officials said.
MICHIGAN
Labels on alcoholic energy drinks might need to change
The colorful camouflage patterns featured on cans of Four, as well as packaging on other alcoholic energy drinks, will face new scrutiny because of a motion from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.
MSU
Student veterans welcomed back to school
After being released from six years of service in the Navy this June, going back to college wasn’t on the top of Patrick Powers’ to-do list.
MICHIGAN
Snyder, Bernero to debate in Wixom
A one-on-one coffee meeting in Lansing on Wednesday between the gubernatorial candidates secured what five weeks of meetings between their lawyers could not — an agreement to a debate. Republican gubernatorial candidate and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder and Democratic candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero will debate at 7 p.m.
MSU
Career fair draws hundreds
Hundreds of students gathered at Spartan Stadium to take part in the largest law school fair ever at MSU, Thursday evening. The fair welcomed 94 law schools from across the country and was open to all students in all majors and colleges.
MSU
Report: Work before grad school a plus
Gordon Jensen had a plan — to graduate with a degree in computer science, spend a few years in the workplace and return to MSU for a master’s degree in business administration. Not all students take Jensen’s approach.
MSU
New computer system to save time, energy
Sparty and the green splash screen will no longer welcome users to the World Wide Web — both will instead take a backseat to Microsoft Windows’ shade of blue. Employees at MSU Academic Technology Services, or ATS, implemented a new login system to 2,000 public university computers for the fall semester, creating a reduced system startup time, said Matt Kolb, assistant director of ATS. During a summer pilot program to compare the new and old systems, ATS employees noticed a 30 percent power reduction between the “green screen” and the new Windows login as energy-conserving settings could be enabled, he said. “The previous system was based on multiple-generations-ago technology,” Kolb said.
MSU
CATA bus route changes cause mixed reviews
Changes to campus bus routes around East Neighborhood have been met by mixed reviews from students, while MSU officials said they’ve had few complaints. The changes, which took effect Aug.
NEWS
Revision to federal financial aid policy prompts new appeals process
A new federal financial aid policy will require students to enter a university-conducted appeal process to maintain their financial aid benefits if their GPA drops below a 2.0. Several hundred MSU students are expected to be affected by this change, said Rick Shipman, Director of the Office of Financial Aid.
NEWS
ASMSU's Academic Assembly discusses forthcoming Capitol rally
ASMSU chairs expressed their excitement for the group’s upcoming fall higher education rally at Academic Assembly’s Tuesday night meeting.
MICHIGAN
City Council discusses senior program, ASMSU
A proposal to formalize a decades-old program devoted to providing adult day care services to local residents was approved at East Lansing City Council’s Tuesday night meeting in the Union’s Gold Room A and B.
MSU
Day of Peace celebrates different religions
Six different faiths came together Tuesday night for “Voices of Faith and Reason: Pathways to Peace,” an interfaith celebration of the International Day of Peace. The event, sponsored by the Shalom Center for Justice & Peace, 215 N. Capitol Ave., and the MSU Campus Interfaith Council, included speakers representing Baha’i, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and secular humanists. Each representative spoke on their approach to peace and their traditions’ perspectives.
MSU
Union kiosk provides laptop rental service
Michael Nyika was depositing his paycheck at the Union last Monday when he spotted a man working on a gray machine Nyika had never seen before. His curiosity was piqued. The foreign machine was a Laptops Anytime kiosk, a station that holds eight 15.4 inch Dell laptops and six 10.1 inch Dell Netbooks that are available for students, staff or campus visitors to rent starting at $1 for the first half hour, and $3.95 for each additional hour for students and $7.95 for non-students.