As music and laughter swirled around students on Friday night, knowledge about one country in the Horn of Africa passed between them. Student members of the Somali Association of Michigan hosted their annual Somali Cultural Night at the Eppley Center.
Until last Friday, MSU’s graduate students had no central space that they could call home — no place to go to for support.
The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation awarded the College of Nursing has been awarded a $600,000 grant to help older adults stay home and receive care, instead of being admitted to a nursing home.
For professional violinist Matthew Pickart and professional double bass player Louis Rudner, making a jazz group is not all about the money and recognition but more for the creative experience of it all.
The Night Owl bus service offers curb-to-curb transportation for students on campus late at night.
Today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Engineering Building lobby, the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) will host a Sparty costume/armor building contest. Teams will consist of two to five people, and they will be given three hours to create a costume or suit of armor with provided recycled materials. The top three teams will receive prizes or gift certificates from the Peanut Barrel, Espresso Royale, the Student Book Store, and more.
Student voters can cast ballots at on-campus polling stations, but voter turnout among young people is low.
MSU alumni raised money in honor of Lacey Holsworth as they ran the New York City Marathon this past weekend.
"I think this showcase is very important because a lot of theatre departments don’t necessarily do this," theatre freshmen Mike Merluzzi said.
Fostering Academics, Mentoring Excellence is a resource center for those students at MSU who were previously in foster care, kinship care, or have experienced homelessness or living independently.
The free public event "Be One for Change: A Conversation with Sharon Love and the One Love Foundation" will take place in room 303 of the International Center Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Over fifty people, over half of them students from MSU College Democrats, were gathered around Spartan Statue for a rally featuring several top politicians.
The new campaign by MSU police to increase awareness of existing traffic laws has reached students, but the conversation is about the lack of bike lanes.
Since Residence Education and Housing Services, or REHS, began offering free laundry services in all residence halls last year, many students have taken advantage of it — even a few off-campus students.
Students joined in the festivities at the Halloween Spooktacular event hosted by the International Student Association and the University Activities Board Friday night.
A week after protesters walked down Grand River Avenue to the East Lansing Police Department, the student groups that organized the protest are looking to take future action against the police, which did not to meet the group’s demands by their deadline Wednesday. About a dozen students met Thursday night for a town hall to discuss the next steps in a campaign to hold East Lansing police accountable in what some called “willful ignorance” in the face of community concerns regarding racial profiling and brutality.
On Saturday, a creationist event is coming to campus to address the idea of intelligent design, rather than evolution through natural selection.
At 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1, MSU students can expect to see hoards of zombies in front of Conrad Hall. This is the annual Zombie Run, created by the Broad China Business Society (BCBS), a student-run organization which aims to promote awareness of the global business environment among students.
Costumes are meant to be fun, but they may also offend certain cultures.
Halloween is right around the corner and for MSU students, severe health problems can occur when not taking the proper precautions.