Dave Closs still remembers when he first met Don Bowersox. Closs was an MSU undergraduate student when he started working with Bowersox on computer simulation games for conferences decades ago. Closs and many others in the academic community were struck by the death of the 79-year-old Bowersox at his Traverse City, Mich., summer home on Monday.
On Friday, an exhibit chronicling the effects of social networking in today’s society will begin its run at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St. The exhibition, titled “Unfriended,” will be open through August 21 and features ten artists from both local and national scenes.
MSU Extension is partnering with the Wayne County Airport Authority, or WCAA, to grow bioenergy crops to promote alternative fuels in aviation. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Willow Run Airport have begun growing, harvesting and processing biofuels to explore greener options for aviation fuel.
More than 40 affiliates of various departments and organizations in Michigan met on Wednesday at the Northern Transformation Corporation directional meeting in East Lansing.
Children, ukulele players and a clown came together in East Lansing Wednesday evening to participate in the 37th annual Bailey Neighborhood Ice Cream Social Wednesday at the Orchard Street Pump House, 368 Orchard St. The event is sponsored by the Bailey Community Association and the Orchard Street Pump House board.
A group of Lansing area doctors are planning to build a facility geared to offer new options for cancer patients in the area. The affiliated physicians and businesses — collectively named Compass Health Care — are amid securing approval to open an outpatient cancer treatment center and will be ready to serve patients by late 2012 or early 2013, said Joe Wald, a spokesman for the physicians and an instructor in the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
For Hunter Gartner and his teammates, creating Minute Escape, a pie à la mode dish, was not as easy as pie. Minute Escape is an all-in-one apple pie and custard ice cream dessert prepared in one minute by microwaving it. Gartner, a recent graduate, used patent-pending technology he designed to heat the pie up while keeping the ice cream portion of the product frozen. “It’s an interesting, intriguing concept to think that you can throw ice cream into the microwave and that it will be kept frozen,” alumna and team member Rebecca Watts said. The product was created to compete in the Institute of Food Technologists’, or IFT, National Product Development competition. IFT is a nonprofit scientific society whose members are professionals engaged in food science and technology. One of the main purposes of the competition is to afford food industry representatives the opportunity to spot talented students for potential employment, IFT’s director of media relations Mindy Weinstein said in an email. Minute Escape took first place out of six finalists in the competition, which took place in New Orleans June 11-14. “Finding out that we won, there was a huge sense of pride,” Watts said.
Students interested in learning more about the environment surrounding them have something to look forward to in coming weeks when a smartphone application that turns MSU into a virtual museum will be released. The application, titled msu.seum, was developed for both Android and iPhone operating systems and will allow users to explore the history and archeology of areas on campus.
Classes were not in session, there was no firework show and the streets were empty. But despite the ghost town-like appearance, the students and residents who remained in East Lansing to celebrate Independence Day found ways to make the holiday as festive as possible.
For the past four years, Dick Janson has enabled East Lansing residents to have jobs and children to build relationships — just by giving them a bike.
Demolition of Cherry Lane Apartments and the Faculty Bricks complex will begin Tuesday as the university looks to replace the aging structures with green space.
Next week, the City of East Lansing will kick off its free Moonlight Film Festival in downtown East Lansing.
Tuesday marks the summer’s first occurrence of East Lansing’s Play in the Park series, a weekly event that runs through the month of July. The sessions will occur every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The 37th annual Bailey Ice Cream Social will take place Wednesday 5:30-8 p.m.
The East Lansing Farmers’ Market will kick off its summer season this weekend, bringing together vendors and patrons from the Lansing area for farm-grown food. The market, entering its third year, will offer a variety of Michigan-grown produce and products every Sunday.
Michigan Attorney General BIll Schuette plans to appeal a federal ruling that would overturn a state ban on affirmative action. Schuette announced today that he would attempt to erase a 2-1 vote by the U.S.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday voted to overturn a state ban on affirmative action.
The parent company of three East Lansing textbook stores filed for bankruptcy this week, while insisting all locations — including those servicing MSU students — will remain open despite their financial struggles. Nebraska Book Co., which owns the Spartan Bookstore in the International Center on campus, Ned’s Book Store, 135 E.
Starting in mid-August, approximately 500-600 red bricks salvaged during the demolition of the historic MSC smokestack will be available for purchase at the MSU Surplus Store. Gail DeGood, a spokesperson for the MSU Surplus Store, said the bricks will be sold at either $25 or $50 a piece and will include a certificate of authenticity.
A lawsuit was filed last week in Ingham County by Michigan residents who believe a piece of state legislation undermines one of the nation’s core values: the right be governed by elected officials.