It took more than 100 years, but Old College Field is getting a face-lift. Since 1900, the home of MSU baseball, softball and men’s and women’s soccer has remained relatively untouched, causing it to fall behind the standards of NCAA facilities around the Big Ten and Midwest.
St. John Student Parish, 327 M.A.C. Ave., will conclude its 50th anniversary celebration by hosting MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to speak at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Three community members and the MSU Federal Credit Union were honored by the city of East Lansing on Thursday night during the 21st annual Crystal Awards for their impact on the city.
Green hard hats and posters represented Michigan’s energy future Thursday at the Capitol, where students from several state universities rallied for stronger energy legislation.
The MSU Board of Trustees will conclude the spring semester with a meeting today that’s more about celebration than hard decision-making, board members said.
The slumping national economy seems unable to harm Lansing-area shopping centers. Even with a wave of recent national retail chain bankruptcies and closings, including Sharper Image Corp., local malls and strip malls aren’t worried about the economic impact on their shopping centers.
Though it may seem strange to admit, representing a northern school in the Big Ten, MSU baseball head coach David Grewe calls his a squad a “warm weather team.” So, with a temperature of above 60 degrees in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s game against Central Michigan, it was only natural for MSU’s bats to explode.
After watching Africa’s tallest mountain on the big screen at age 13, Britt Larson made conquering Mount Kilimanjaro her personal goal. “You always hear about Mount Kilimanjaro, but after I saw an Imax film when I was around 13 years old, it’s been on my to-do list ever since,” the zoology sophomore said. “For the last five or six years I’ve really wanted to climb it.”
Charlotte Wilks knows firsthand that railroad crossings can be dangerous. She once saw a fellow employee climb between the cars of a stopped train near her laboratory in the Life Sciences Building. The employee’s daughter had gotten sick while in day care on the other side of the tracks.
Housing and Food Services has begun a training program to educate employees on how to respond if there is an active shooter in their work place, one that could soon spread to the rest of campus.
Members of MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community wouldn’t let the anti-gay slurs marked on 10 buildings last week in Lansing’s Old Town affect the 36th annual Pride Week festivities.
While ASMSU members want university officials to differentiate tassel colors shared by two colleges, it’s too late to change what color will hang from graduation caps this year.
Members of ASMSU Student Assembly’s 45th session will elect the group’s officers during its meeting at 6:30 p.m. today.
MSU named Carole Bolin director of MSU’s Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, or DCPAH, effective Tuesday.
About two minutes before giving birth, things got complicated for the “woman” lying on a table in the LaSalle Bank Club Room at Spartan Stadium.
MSU will host a conference Friday for educators and students to address incorporating international learning at all levels of education.
For then-MSU senior Derek Gessert, April 16, 2007, was already a gloomy day. And it turned into a nightmare. Gessert, a Virginia native and MSU alumnus, was at a funeral reception for his ex-girlfriend when he first heard the news of the campus shootings that left 33 dead at Virginia Tech University one year ago.
With public hearings set, East Lansing residents and East Lansing City Council members are set to begin debating a $117 million proposal that could substantially revamp East Lansing.