Charles Salmon became dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences about four years ago — a time when the college’s future was unclear. Talk of a merger with another college had emerged in 2005 just as the college celebrated its 50th anniversary.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss adding a Fraternity-Sorority Historic District at its meeting tonight. The meeting is scheduled for at 7:30 p.m. in the Executive Conference Room of the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Officials from the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a possible connection between the Wright Township homicide that killed an MSU student and three others, and a 31-year-old man who was arrested Thursday by Grand Rapids police for two incidents in Grand Rapids, said Ottawa County sheriff’s Lt. Mark Bennett.
A string of break-ins has left police searching and East Lansing renters worrying. During the past four months, thieves have stolen TVs, video game systems, computers and purses from rental properties all around the city, East Lansing police Sgt. Scott Wriggelsworth said.
MSU is starting to feel the effects of the current economic crisis as the university’s $1.4 billion investment portfolio, the majority of which is endowments, declined by about 10 percent for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. MSU’s endowment is made up of donations and investments that accumulate interest over time.
ASMSU will not fund a concert promoting voter turnout, after Student Assembly Chairperson Mike Webber was forced to make the tie-breaking vote at a meeting Thursday. The bill initially failed in a prior meeting and was recalled after it passed unanimously in Finance Committee, where the proposed amount of funding was increased.
Students and East Lansing residents can attend “Girls Nite In,” a presentation on breast health, breast cancer and prevention at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Curves in East Lansing.
As the popular Fox reality competition “American Idol” enters its eighth season, the University Activities Board is preparing for its seventh year of Spartan Idol — the MSU version of the show.
Picking up a whole neighborhood worth of trash might not be the ideal activity for many people on a Sunday morning, but some community-minded students were up early doing just that.
The MSU hockey team’s offense was nonexistent in their home opener — a 3-0 loss to UMass-Lowell on Thursday night at Munn Ice Arena.
Soon, lab animals might not spend their entire lives in the laboratory. Thanks to one student and a mistake in a shipment of hamsters to an MSU lab for a research project, the university might create an official policy for placing rodents unneeded for research up for adoption.
A student’s purse was stolen Oct. 9 while riding on a Capitol Area Transportation Authority bus, MSU police Sgt. Randy Holton said.
While the housing market has been a point of concern for many people recently, the student housing market should remain stable, city and university officials say.
Thursday’s MSU Housing Fair helped many students find next year’s living situations during this hectic season of house hunting.
Josh Gehrke said the time is right to buy a home. Gehrke, a veterinary medicine graduate student, owns a home on Ann Street with his brothers Jason, 25, and Pete, 24.
Rebecca Jacobsen knew how to teach before she picked up her first course book. Jacobsen, an assistant professor of teacher education, grew up around teachers and knew what it meant to teach well.
After leaving their WRA class Thursday afternoon, freshmen Nick Lebel and Eric Sneller decided to smash nuclei and create some rare isotopes.
Increased applications to MSU’s graduate and MBA programs follow a national trend that shows students tend to seek shelter in an unpredictable economy.
A 25-year-old Lansing man was arraigned Wednesday for a campus assault on a 19-year-old student, according to MSU police. Jason H. Evans’ arraignment was connected to the fourth crime alert sent by MSU police this semester.
Standing in front of a 37-member federal review committee earlier this week with a half-billion-dollar project on the line, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon and a team from the Cyclotron made its case for why East Lansing should be home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.