The fourth annual Strengthening the Pipeline: The Need for Diversity in STEM Fields forum scheduled for tonight hopes to strengthen the number of minority students in graduate schools and professional outlets.
An unlikely duo of martial arts and agriculture brought together in Flint, Mich., became the inspiration for an MSU-produced documentary that will be featured later today during an on-campus screening.
The MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education was full of wrangling, roping and riding action during the weekend as part of the 42nd MSU Spartan Stampede International Professional Rodeo Association, or IPRA, Rodeo.
Members of Radiating Excellence in All Areas of Life, or R.E.A.A.L., and student models strutted down the runway Saturday to promote HIV/AIDS awareness during the fourth annual AIDS benefit fashion show, “Red Alert 2011.”
Faculty from MSU’s Community Music School will provide local elementary students with the opportunity to explore string instruments in the upcoming weeks thanks to available funding.
Visitors to Munn Ice Arena normally are greeted by the sights and sounds of MSU hockey on a typical Saturday night.
It has been years of change in the making for two MSU-led research initiatives.
Since the first snowfall at about 2 p.m. there have been 18 reported accidents because of the snow accumulation, East Lansing police Sgt. Mark VandeWouer said.
Representatives from ASMSU’s Student Assembly’s Policy Committee passed a bill Thursday to create individual e-mails for each representative within the organization.
The MSU community welcomed Shirley Sherrod on Thursday as she pushed the notion that racism, injustice and stagnant progression of civil rights no longer can be taken out of context.
As of Feb. 9, Crossing Place Apartments, 3636 Coleman Road, is under new management. Crossing Place Apartments property manager James Tracy said the complex now is being managed by Asset Campus Housing.
The basement of Rick’s American Cafe, 224 Abbot Road, was covered in leftover red paper hearts as members of Jews in Greek Life, or JIGL, gathered with two goals — to have fun and save a child’s heart.
For psychology senior Rebecca Reid, pursuing a college degree is a priority. But when her parents’ health was struggling, she wasn’t sure if school still was an option.
Residents of Greater Lansing interested in alternative methods of growing, distributing, processing, selling and consuming food were offered the opportunity to listen to speakers and discuss issues at a citywide conference Thursday.
The cause of the fire at apartment 48 Capitol Villa Apartments, 1708 E. Grand River Ave., was confirmed as an accident by East Lansing Fire Inspector Gerald Rodabaugh. Rodabaugh said the electric stove was left on in the apartment, and an unidentified object was left on the stove and caught fire.
“Pain” has been a prominent word in state legislators’ vocabularies since they took office last month.
With the inclusion of a $30 million award from the Department of Energy in President Barack Obama’s budget, the construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, moves one step closer to its expected completion in 2020. Although the budget still needs approval from Congress, officials from MSU remain confident that the importance of the facility will be conveyed to legislators. The money was specified in earlier negotiations and was used to shape the project’s budget, said Alex Parsons, FRIB’s Project Communications Manager.
Opponents of Michigan’s law mandating all retail items be labeled clearly with a price scored a victory after a reform bill passed the state House on Wednesday.
What will directionally challenged freshmen do now? After 63 years towering above MSU’s campus, the 230-foot MSC smokestack might be taken down this summer.
Following the Jan. 30 car crash that killed three teenagers from Holt, Mich., and the felony charges against the three men who hosted the party the teens attended that night, many students and community members have questioned the legal responsibilities of someone hosting a party.