This Tuesday, the annual MSU Awards Convocation took place, and 10 faculty members were honored for their involvement in education and research with the Distinguished Faculty Award, with representation from many colleges across campus, including the College of Music and Eli Broad College of Business.
On Feb. 12, 1855, Gov. Kinsley Bingham signed legislation establishing the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan — the first in many steps to create the “global university” experts call MSU today.
Pope Benedict XVI surprised some Catholic students when he announced Monday — days before Lent — that he will be stepping down from the papacy.
Students interested in working with stroke patients now have an accredited facility close to campus where they can gain experience in the field.
Tickets for the upcoming Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert will officially go on sale 1 p.m. on Feb.
The Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference, also known as MBLGTACC, came to Lansing this past weekend to present more than 2,000 students with resources and workshops for almost all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, related topics.
A new report shows most college students are under high levels of stress. But that might not be a bad thing if students learn to use it to their advantage, experts say.
Fighting the nerves of being on stage was something 9-year-old Nick Schlee of Grand Rapids, Mich., overcame while singing karaoke Friday night at the Union, but his sister, prenursing freshman Kali Schlee thought he “nailed it.”
In an authentic Victorian suit — complete with beaver hat — history professor and Charles Darwin impersonator Richard Bellon stands out in a crowd. Bellon is a staple of the MSU Museum’s Darwin Discovery Day, which is dedicated to celebrate Darwin’s birthday, as well as the celebration of scientific research in general. This year, the theme was “Tale of Scales,” focusing on Darwin’s work with reptiles.
Tuesday, Peace Corps announced their annual list of top colleges and universities that produced the most volunteers in 2012. Claiming the No. 6 spot for all-time volunteers — Spartan nation.
Last spring, the MSU Board of Trustees passed the Energy Transition Plan, which listed strategies to actualize the university’s vision and run on 100 percent renewable energy, not coal.
Teach for America, or TFA , gives college students the opportunity to work on a master’s degree after they graduate while also teaching in a low-income community.
When studying for that final economics exam, students might benefit from studying in groups, according to a recent study done the by University of California, San Diego.
Bundled in her striped wool mittens, printed scarf and foggy glasses, Laura Drotar stood poised with her clipboard, battling the weather while fighting for the environment. On Friday afternoon near the rock on Farm Lane, the history, philosophy and sociology of science sophomore petitioned beside other members of MSU Greenpeace and Paulie the polar bear, asking passing students to sign a petition to expedite and better clarify MSU’s Energy Transition Plan.
Advertising senior Maria Sasinowski is a few months away from graduating and already has accepted a job with Microsoft. She attributes this success to concepts she learned through a sales competition last fall.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, passed a bill trying to boost students’ chances at success in MTH 1825, Intermediate Algebra. The committee unanimously passed the bill, which advocates for a lecture option for the MTH 1825 class currently only offered as an online course. MTH 1825 is the lowest math class offered at MSU and is the class where students who score the lowest on the math placement exams are put. Surveys conducted by ASMSU representatives showed students were struggling in the class and felt changes were necessary. ASMSU will look to meet with the bill’s main supporters, ASMSU representatives Nate Pasmanter and Paul Mooney, in the coming weeks as their next step in the process.
After growing up in Atlanta, in the 1960s, Donzaleigh Abernathy vividly can recollect events of the civil rights movement. She recalls a childhood with “white” and “colored” drinking fountains, no guarantee to receive an education and not being “allowed” to step foot in the public library. Author and actress Donzaleigh Abernathy, daughter of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, also remembers the day her “Uncle Martin,” known to most as Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated. On Thursday evening at Kellogg Center, Donzaleigh Abernathy stood before members of the MSU community and told her story; the untold story of her father and King, and the civil rights movement. Abernathy said she was glad to be a part of the 13th-annual “Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey” visiting lecture series organized by the College of Osteopathic Medicine to celebrate Black History Month. About 200 people attended Thursday’s event, and crowd members were attentive and intrigued by Donzaleigh Abernathy’s stories — including stories of her father, Ralph Abernathy, who was the “thinker and planner” next to King.
“The Source” was just one of many names for Philip Greenman, a senior associate dean emeritus of the College of Osteopathic Medicine who spent more than 25 years at MSU and died Feb. 5 in his home in Tucson, Ariz., of cardiac failure brought on by pneumonia, “a department official said. Arrangements are underway, and a service will be held at his Arizona home.
As 15-year-old activist and 2013 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai recovers from recent surgery after being shot in the head on her way home from school, MSU faculty and students from Pakistan are reflection on her fight for girls’ rights to education and what it’s really like to live there. On Oct. 9, 2012, Yousafzai was shot point-blank in the head and neck by Pakistani Taliban militants while she was riding home from school, according to a CNN report.
Election talk was the buzz at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly meeting Wednesday night, with the upcoming executive board election season quickly approaching. RHA started their presidential nominee process with four candidates being nominated, but only one accepted.