Campus was swarming with children last weekend as they learned about science, from water bugs swimming in small tanks to germinating seeds they could bring home to plant.
Leo Kempel is one of the main reasons graduate student Benjamin Crowgey is pursuing electrical engineering.
More than 150 years after U.S. Congressman Justin S. Morrill pioneered the establishment of MSU as a land-grant institution within the Morrill Act, and with the looming demolition of MSU’s 103-year-old Morrill Hall, the MSU Board of Trustees voted to keep the Morrill’s history apparent on campus.
Although alumna Libby DuBay has lived in Los Angeles since graduating in 1985, she remains an active member of the Spartan family.
At Friday morning’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees approved policy adaptations and construction projects, including a 3.9 percent room and board rate increase and the construction of a Bio Engineering Facility on campus.
“Peace, social justice, and unity should not stop after one year,” said Lauren Moore, president of Successful Black Women of MSU, or SBWMSU. “This is an opportunity for all people to build knowledge and make connections.”
Using GoSoapBox software, students can indicate when they are confused by the lecture material, instructors can administer quizzes and polls, and the class can provide anonymous feedback to teacher questions.
With warmer weather on the way, many organizations have been rolling out the finish line ribbons to host 5K charity events, including the Senior Class Council.
Despite a mixture of snow, hail and rain, runners and volunteers came out in force to support MSU Safe Place on Sunday afternoon at the 19th-annual Race for the Place 5K.
On stage, two men crashed their way through an improvised scene. They were basing the performance on cues written by the audience. Every thirty seconds, the men would pause, read off one of the cues, and the performance would veer in a wildly new direction. The setting: a clock tower. The plot: a fear of worms. And then the revelations: “You’re adopted!” “You’re also adopted!” The scene concluded with the actors embracing and the audience enthusiastically applauding.
At Friday morning’s Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees unanimously approved a 3.9 percent room and board rate increase, construction of a new Bio Engineering Facility and a 25-megawatt electrical duct bank to help power the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB.
Supply chain management junior Evan Spreng’s head popped out of the thick brush as his eyes scanned the horizon. Camouflaged among the pine shrubs, hiding was a matter of life or death.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama submitted his Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal allocating increased funds for higher education.
At today’s Board of Trustees meeting, trustees will discuss and vote upon whether to increase room and board rates by 3.9 percent for the 2013-14 academic year.
It’s been a rough week, and even ASMSU can’t deny it. Between low turnout at a $25,500 carnival and the cancelation of the Ne-Yo concert, MSU’s undergraduate student government’s election week — meant to promote the group and engage students — didn’t go as planned.
A student-driven “Yes means Yes” campaign on campus, looking to redefine the meaning of consent, was started following a nationally publicized rape of a drunk high school girl by two football players in Steubenville, Ohio.
Although flooding from the Red Cedar River is expected this week, MSU officials are not yet worried about the potential impact on university sports fields.
MSU ranked relatively low in terms of average faculty salary compared to other Big Ten universities, according to a survey by the 2013 American Association of University Professors Faculty Salary Survey.
At the last Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, meeting of the semester, students had the chance to voice concerns to MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon.
Flooding is expected this week from the Red Cedar River as all of southern Michigan continues to see heavy rain.