With only about a month left before the fall semester, the Dairy Store already is busy at work getting ready for the next rush of students with a few new flavors being released in the next month.
Students wanting to learn about the American legal system and increase their chances of finding work can now take classes taught by MSU professors at MSU’s Dubai campus to receive a Master of Laws degree.
Ferris State University sophomore Ian Wenk waters plants at the Beal Botanical Garden on Monday, July 30, 2012. Wenk is working at the garden for the summer.
Journalism senior Jesse Wiza said she spends a lot of her summer days listening to music in preparation for her show, “Sit Or Spin.”
MSU Bikes Service Center, formerly run through the Physical Plant, has joined the Surplus Store and Recycling Center. The Surplus Store and Recycling Center currently sells bikes from time to time, but it does not offer repairs or have as steady of a stream of merchandise as the MSU Bikes Service Center.
Tuesday, about 225 students, all dressed in their best, flooded the northwest wing of the Engineering Building to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Forum. The forum was attended by students from about 60 universities from across the country, and a few from Puerto Rico.
For the first time in the history of the MSU College of Engineering, the solar car team competed in a cross-country race at the American Solar Challenge this past week.
There was nothing communication junior Johanna Jelenek wanted more on her birthday than to honor her best friend Carly Glynn. Jelenek organized Team Carly Glynn, complete with matching pink T-shirts with Glynn’s name, for the Ele’s Race 5K Run/Walk on Sunday morning.
Former Trustee Dorothy Gonzales wasn’t one to brag. She shied away from big displays focused on her, and no matter who she met, she carried herself the same way — she was all about her community. But last night, her friends and family decided it was time to give her a little extra attention by hosting a dinner in her honor.
Following a 24-hour flight from Japan, So Tsuda finally was able to relax in East Lansing and focus his love for science, with none other than a Nobel Prize winner.
Inside the control room of Studio E in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, about nine middle and high school students learned what it takes to become a TV producer.
The parking lot was filled with pickup trucks, and the air smelled like manure at the 2012 MSU Agriculture Expo, hosted by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
When agribusiness management senior Beth Oliver attended the MSU Agriculture Expo with her family when she was young, she had no idea how much it would change by the time she got to college. “What makes the Ag Expo special for me is that I remember coming here with my dad and brother when I was a little girl, and it was completely different when I started working here than my memories depicted it,” Oliver said in an email. The expo began Tuesday at the MSU Pavilion, located at the corner of Farm Lane and Mt.
In May 2013, Butterfield Hall will close for about a year to undergo construction and safety upgrades. It will be closed in the 2013-14 academic year.
Beaumont Tower is one of the most iconic buildings at MSU, but what many people don’t know is that with a little time and a lot of practice, anyone can play the carillon. Ray McLellan, university carillonneur, said he started playing the Beaumont Tower carillon in 1997, and he enjoys teaching people how to play.
Not many people know the story of Donald Miller, the only known serial killer from MSU. At least, that’s what MSU alumnus and author R. Barri Flowers thought when he included the story in his new crime anthology, “Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre.” The anthology is a collection of works from the true crime writers in the business and one of more than 60 titles Flowers has under his name.
Amanda Wenzel thought she had her housing situation for the 2012-13 school year figured out last fall. Wenzel, a special education sophomore, planned to live on campus with a friend started to fall apart in February when her future roommate backed out of their housing contract, and she’s tried to piece together her living situation ever since.
The MSU Formula Racing Team completed the year with a sixth-place finish at the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers’ 2012 FSAE-West competition.
Doris Parks loved old books. More than anything, she loved searching for books. There was rarely a dusty, ornamented hardback she couldn’t find for an MSU student or professor in need.
Through the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U, MSU and Greater Lansing are on track to having a one-gigabit-per-second Internet connection available to all students and community members. The local Gig.U initiative is part of the national University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, working to connect communities around universities with the students and school. The project was first introduced in February by the Greater Lansing Gig.U coalition, which includes the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the Prima Civitas Foundation, or PCF, 325 E.