For many people, the idea of working with low-income Peruvians might seem exhausting, but for fourth year medical student Joe Gorz, it’s what he was meant to do. “We just try to do a job,” he said.
For six summers, Kristie Phelps has made an annual trip to the Red Cedar River with her two friends to grab a few minutes of relaxation away from her kids and responsibilities and enjoy an evening of theater and nature.
Tears welled in the eyes of Regina Walker as she watched her son Tanner Maxwell up on stage singing “You’ve got a friend in me” for the final time at the MSU Community Music School’s music therapy recital Tuesday evening.
Ian Wenk decided to work at the Beal Botanical Garden as a summer job, not knowing it would lead him one step closer to figuring out his major.
When the first MSU IT Conference was held five years ago, it was with people like MSU health information technologist Wajahat Syed in mind.
Jerry Halm graduated from MSU in 1960, but has come back every year for the last twenty to take part in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Golfing for Scholarships.
When students arrive at MSU for the fall semester, many expect to see the dorms in a stain-free, disinfected state with freshly painted walls and new light bulbs. Craig Czajkowski helps to make sure it happens.
Biochemistry and molecular biology/biotechnology senior Rosie Jaremba picks crab apples on Monday near the Plant Science Greenhouses on Wilson Road.
As an international student from Malaysia, biochemistry and molecular biology junior Liyana Aziz was not used to the cold Michigan winter as a freshman.
For the last time until 2117, the transit of Venus will occur at approximately 5:04 p.m. today. During this rare phenomenon, Venus covers 1/32 of the sun and can be seen by the naked eye — or preferably with protective eyewear due to the sun’s damaging rays — in good conditions.
For MBA student Scott Gordon, taking risks paid off to the tune of $867,000 — if only it were real. Gordon was the winner of the first MBA Stock Market Challenge, which ended April 27, after three months of trading. Competitors were given $100,000 in virtual money and 12 weeks on the stock market through the website investopedia.com. Gordon said he did it because there was no risk. “You always want to see what you could do if you had money,” he said. Gordon said his strategy was a bit more risky than everybody else’s because he used option trading, where you have the right to buy the stock at a predetermined price at a later time, even if the price goes up. He targeted big companies like Apple and Qualcomm and invested with them if he knew they were going to have a financially productive day. With option trading, Gordon said you either win or lose, and he didn’t always win. “At some point, I was down $70,000,” he said.
Dick Beals was a Spartan through and through. When Homecoming came around, he left Hollywood behind for the autumn air of East Lansing each year.
When Miles Sutphen first became a Spartan in fall 2011, his residency in Campbell Hall was exactly what he expected it to be — cramped, with older dorms, full-service cafeterias and an array of excited students.
Bill Vincent, a professor of film studies in the department of English, will travel to New Zealand this Friday to be in a remake of the 1981 film, The Evil Dead.
Students in the College of Education might be using more than just textbooks and iClickers in their courses in the fall, with the launch of a pilot program that will bring iPads into some classrooms.
MSU students and faculty have been busy earning awards, receiving appointments to new positions and co-authoring reports this year.
Bright sun beating down and 92 degrees of heat can make for a beautiful day on a beautiful campus this Memorial Day. And although the student population on campus dwindles in the summer, the population of students who stay for Memorial Day can be miniscule in comparison — and that’s just how the students who stay like it.
On her visit from China, Aobing Chang said her upcoming quick stops at Harvard University and MIT are nothing compared to the tour of MSU she began more than a week ago.
With only eight weeks left in Macomb Community College’s nursing program, Jennifer Woodman wishes she was just a few years younger so she could have the opportunity to dually enroll at MSU and work on her associate degree and Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the same time.
The typical competitiveness amongst MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University will be set aside today in the name of research — at least until winners are chosen.