Looking up at the sky at night you can see a lot of stars but not everything you see is what you think it is.
One way universities have tried to help the underprivileged is through what is commonly called affirmative action, which in higher education means allowing an applicant’s race or ethnicity to be taken into account during the admissions process to offset structural disadvantages that might come from attendance at lower-performing high schools.
MSU police announced Wednesday that eight new public address speaker towers are now operational across campus.
The new trailer for the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie featured a brief shot of the exterior of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum during the 2:34 to 2:36 minute marks.
Each year, MSU conducts a survey of the graduating class to track where each graduate has found employment six months postgrad. The results for 2014 shed some positive light on what has recently been a tough job market.
Although not a single MSU sporting event took place Friday night, people in Cedar Village evidently found some reason to burn a couch.
If you've never seen the glorious piece of art that is the film "God's Not Dead" then you, my friend, need to. But not if you are looking for any sort of realistic depiction of religion on campus or a reasoned defense of God in front of a largely secular higher education system. If you don't know anything about the movie, it's premise is that an atheist college professor threatens to fail a Christian student for not writing "God is Dead" on a sheet of paper for a philosophy course, unless he proves God's existence in front of the entire class.
Construction begun for a new nexus of innovation on June 18, 2015, with the groundbreaking of the new MSU Grand Rapids Research Center.
By Cameron Macko cmacko@statenews.com Lou Anna K. Simon University President Lou Anna K.
MSU embraces and accept diversity internationally on campus. There are students from more than 130 countries on campus. Here you can learn different cultural values and manners by making friends with international students; taste foods from different countries in the resident halls; and try to learn another languages through courses or your international friends. For international students, if you are worried about your immigration status, your official paper work, such as I-20, passports and so on.
At 10:45 this morning, a small explosions occurred in Giltner Hall, according to a statement from MSU police. It took place in an empty lab room and remained isolated there.
More than two years after MSU student Andrew Singler was stabbed to death at his apartment by Okemos resident Connor McCowan, for which McCowan was sentenced to 20 to 60 years, the family plans to remember Singler’s life at the second annual Andrew Singler Memorial Cup in Ann Arbor.
MSU is celebrating its fight song's 100th anniversary in 2015 by inviting those in the MSU community to send videos of themselves singing the song to create the first-ever Spartan Virtual Choir. A video published on July 1 asked viewers to record a video of themselves singing along to the song and upload the recording to www.msu.edu/fightsong. MSU's fight song was composed by cheerleader and civil engineering major Francis Irving Lankey at Michigan Agricultural College in 1915 and most of the words were written by Lankey's friend and fellow MAC student Arthur L.
The Abrams Planetarium is bringing the constellations to life this weekend. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday the planetarium is offering a free, special show called 'Star Safari' that pairs learning about the constellations with meeting their small animal counterparts brought from the Potter Park Zoo.
The Common Ground Music Festival 2015 is set to kickoff today, after a last minute hiccup in the lineup.
MSU's W.J. Beal Botanical Garden and Hidden Lake Gardens have both been ranked by Best Colleges Online among the "50 Most Amazing University Botanical Gardens and Arboretums in the U.S." The rankings and ratings for each garden were assessed on a points system which awarded gardens for not only having a wide and manicured variety of plant species, but also for categories such as previous awards won, conservation and education, having a connected university degree program and 'Wow' factors. "I was certainly pleased and excited when I found out," Curator of the W.
Begining the Monday after Independence Day Weekend, MSU Infrastructure Planning and Facilities will shut down one of the westbound lanes of Trowbridge Road at the intersection of Chestnut Road.
The northbound US-127 exit to Trowbridge Road is reopened after officials closed it because of an accident involving a semi-truck, according to an Ingham County advisory.
Construction on Abbot Road, between Burcham Drive and Saginaw Street, began Sunday, June 28 and is scheduled to finish mid August.