MSU’s faculty salary and compensation numbers are lacking compared to its peers, raising questions about the university’s ability to recruit and retain talented faculty.
University officials are looking to make free Wi-Fi available to students in residence halls in the coming years, with residents of Wilson Hall already experiencing the new perk this year.
October is Campus Sustainability Month, and to celebrate, the Office of Campus Sustainability is planning a number of outreach activities. Activities include walking tours of the campus, student organic farm and Bailey GREENhouse, composting presentations, an open house at the MSU Recycling Center and craft workshops featuring recycled material from the MSU Surplus Store.
The mystery behind the “WTF MSU” campaign” that has been puzzling students for the past week was solved Friday after ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, announced its involvement after allegations of vandalism on campus.
Winning an in-house glass design competition has helped some MSU packaging students make industry connections and get a head start on their careers. The winning group of four MSU students beat out 70 other designs in a glass bottle design competition sponsored by the Glass Packaging Institute. Their design is a clear, 750 ml glass bottle with a pentagon body and a star-shaped shoulder that carries up around the bottle neck.
“Keep squinting.” This was the motto of the late professor William Beal, who created the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden in 1873 as a way to get his students out of the lecture hall and into the natural world. “To him, the garden was a living laboratory,” garden curator and plant biology professor Frank Telewski said. “He wanted his students to be keen observers of their environment. He’d say, ‘Tell me what you see,’ over and over, and as the students gave answers, he kept pushing them. He just told them to keep squinting.” The Beal Garden turned 140 this year, and the garden’s history was honored Saturday with a small anniversary celebration featuring guided tours and cider and doughnuts.
ASMSU revealed today that they are the ones behind the anonymous “WTF MSU” campaign, which has been intriguing students across campus for the past week.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine has launched the Rural Community Health Program, a new program to draw more aspiring doctors to rural communities. MSU is partnering with Charlevoix Area Hospital, McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey and the Alpena Regional Medical Center.
Students and faculty members will celebrate another milestone for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community — a new LGBTQ and sexual studies specialization implemented at the beginning of this semester.
ASMSU’s Policy Commitee passed a bill that would allow the undergraduate student government to advocate against arson in the East Lansing and MSU community. The bill said the East Lansing Police Department has been getting a high rate of reports on arson in the East Lansing area over the last two years.
“Space. Definitely the space,” three MSU freshman girls said in unison when asked what’s most challenging about transitional housing. Education freshman Kendall Clary, psychology freshman Shelby Krist and criminal justice freshman Elise Plancon live in one of the remaining 181 transitional housing rooms across campus, affecting 545 students.
For neuroscience sophomore Grace Kamau, the terrorist attacks in Kenya last Saturday, were too close for comfort.
Students packed the halls of the MSU Union on Wednesday and waited hours to gain their plot of land on Munn Field for the annual Izzone Campout this Friday. Abnormally high turnout for the registration event led officials to believe the Izzone Campout could be its most crowded in years. Each year, the Association of Future Alumni, or AFA, hosts a campout for all students who bought season tickets to the men’s basketball games, offering games, giveaways and food at the event. Registration for the campout started at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and Matt Martin, director of Izzone at AFA, said the crowd remained strong throughout the day.
In a galaxy not too far away, a record recently was broken — the densest galaxy known to man was discovered by an MSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy with the help of a team of astronomers.
MSU research shows that bullying and harassment over the Internet or by text message can have as much impact on a student’s well-being as physical abuse. One study published earlier this year by MSU criminologist Thomas Holt showed students bullied online or by cell phone are just as likely to skip school or contemplate suicide as those who are physically bullied.
New drone technology at MSU will prove useful for farmers and journalists alike. Associate professor of geological sciences Bruno Basso will be conducting a three-to-four year experiment using a drone to monitor crop fields, advancing MSU’s roots as an agricultural school with modern-day innovations.
Student athletes’ academic achievements became a point of pride for MSU after athletes received above-average academic scores across the board, officials said Tuesday. MSU’s athlete graduation rate is similar to that of the student body and is higher than the NCAA Division 1 average, said Michael Kasavana, MSU Athletic Council chair and professor of hospitality business, during a University Council meeting on Tuesday. The faculty-based athletic council evaluates student-athlete academic progress every semester. The university’s Academic Progress Report, or APR, scores, which measure eligibility, retention and graduation over a four-year period, are above the national median for every sport, Kasavana said.
ASMSU teamed up with Student Health Services and MSU Social Norms to campaign for medical amnesty awareness Tuesday afternoon outside Olin Health Center. The event, titled “Step up. Step in. Be a good Wingman!” was targeted to teach students about the positives of taking advantage of the Michigan law.
During the Iraq War, international relations senior Anas Attal never knew if the people he grew up with would still be alive the next day. Attal, who is originally from Syria, had a different experience of the war than many of his fellow students. He constantly feared for his family’s safety — his 10-year-old cousin had guns, knives and hand grenades as toys in order to protect his family.
Chaz Miles and the Ultimate Training Camp band rocked the Skandalaris Football Center Tuesday night, performing a Christian-themed mini-concert at the Athletes in Action, or AIA, weekly meeting. The Ultimate Training Camp, or UTC, band is composed of former student athletes from across the country and plays Christian-themed music. Spartan athletes gathered to watch as the five-member UTC band sang variations of old and new musical arrangements.