Demonstration Hall normally is filled with MSU marching band members, intramural athletes and ROTC students, but this weekend it saw more than 100 Michiganians challenge themselves in the strategic game of bridge.
MSU instructor Troy Hale teamed up with MSU students to launch a weather balloon containing high definition, or HD, cameras and a global positioning system, or GPS, unit into space this weekend.
Whether they are shuffling across television screens on AMC’s popular television series “The Walking Dead” or chasing helpless victims in films such as “World War Z,” zombies have saturated popular culture, evolving into an entertainment keystone. And in an effort to strike while the brains were fresh, Glenn Stutzky, a senior clinical instructor in the school of social work, decided to teach a zombie-related class last summer, which has skyrocketed in popularity as well as receiving critical acclaim.
MSU journalism graduate Emanuele Berry won first place in this year’s Hearst National Radio Broadcast News Championship. The Hearst Foundation puts out a national competition of entries in five different journalism categories, which includes writing, television news, multimedia, photojournalism and radio news. Berry finished in second place in the initial radio news competition, which consisted of 45 entrants from students in journalism schools across the country.
“We’ve been given an ultimatum,” ASMSU President Evan Martinak said. “If you’re driving a car and someone puts a gun to your window, you don’t argue with them. … You get out of the car and you pick up the rest of the pieces later.”
There’s a different batch of students on campus this week — more than 1,000 of them. Their ages range from about 8 to 80-plus, and they parade from each class smiling ear to ear.
It was a hot and humid day out in the woods at Burchfield Park, 881 Grovenburg Road, in Holt, Mich., with mosquitoes gearing up for a full-on attack around the clock.
There still is uncertainty as to whether or not Impact 89FM will receive student taxes in the upcoming school year, according to Impact 89FM General Manager Ed Glazer.
Nine MSU professors have been awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor by the Board of Trustees for their achievements in the classroom, laboratory and community.
After more than 40 years of service to MSU, Dan Chegwidden, the director of MSU’s Office of Gift Planning, said former MSU trustee Patricia Carrigan will be remembered for both her strong personality and her compassion.
Roar, sing, cry, whisper, persuade, converse. Everyone has a different interpretation of those words and it’s that sentiment that an exhibit at the MSU Museum draws upon.
In observance of National Pollinator Week, MSU held the annual Bee Palooza at the Horticulture Gardens on Sunday.
The National Council on Teaching Quality, or NCTQ, released its ratings on teacher preparation programs for colleges across the U.S., last week, giving MSU two out of four stars in their undergraduate and secondary education programs.
MSU researchers are developing an in-orchard harvesting aid, or sorting machine, which would provide a technique to help farmers gather apples more efficiently and safely.
Looking ahead to Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, the public can expect a lengthy list of issues to get through on the agenda.
For some art is a life long passion. “I’ve been doing art since as long as I can remember. When I was a little kid it was my favorite thing to just draw pictures all the time,” East Lansing resident and recent graduate from MSU, Amelia Larson said.
MSU will help fill the national shortage of professionals qualified to treat autism by offering online courses for students beginning this fall.
Wedged between the Life Sciences Building and the Clinical Center, MSU has broken new ground. In honor of a new on-campus bioengineering facility on Service Road, a ground-breaking ceremony was held Wednesday afternoon, with figures such as MSU President Lou Anna K.
A free massive online open course, or MOOC, offered by MSU opens July 1 and will offer ways to improve writing skills to both students and nonstudents.
Underneath the bulk of MSU’s campus, there lies an array of history, begging to be discovered. Over the years, the MSU Campus Archaeology Program has found boiler buildings and old dormitories, as well as prehistoric artifacts dating back to 1500 B.C.