When Frank Loomis walks out onto the football field this fall he no longer will march with the trumpet section, but will stride out in front to lead the MSU Spartan Marching Band and perform MSU’s traditional backbend.
There is a place for animals in the heart of animal science senior Emily Henderson.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, or NSCL, will be part of a national organization to commercialize research from the labs, after MSU joined the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, or FLC, a national network of federal labs last week.
Catherine Woteki, chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, visited MSU and toured the new Molecular Plant Sciences Building on Tuesday morning.
Local businesses took advantage of the throngs of people that invaded the downtown area for the East Lansing Art Festival, seeing an increase in commerce this weekend.
MSU’s campus can seem empty over the summer due to more than 22,000 students missing from daily life.
Out of a field of more than 1,100 applicants, two MSU students, along with 280 other recipients from across the country, were awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
MSU lacrosse attacker Mac Ensley had a thrill last week when one of his goals made it on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
When Barb Michaels’ nephew Danny Arksey was killed in an accident six years ago, she was not ready to let him go.
Years ago, political science professors Paul Abramson and Ada Finifter made a pact — depending on which of the friends passed away first, they promised to write each other’s lifelong memoir. At the age of 73, Finifter died on October 29, 2011 after a two-year battle with multiple myeloma.
After about four and a half hours of tedious test taking early Saturday morning, Kaz Knight finally walked out of Sylvan Learning Center, 2500 Kerry St., in Lansing, a free man.
Ross Hill believes his bicycle saved his life. Six years ago, the Lansing resident was riding his speciality 1888 highwheeler and was struck by a vehicle from behind.
This weekend, J.J. Robison and a few other members of the Spartan Ski Club will say goodbye to the office that was home to the group for more than 40 years.
MSU is partnering with Dr. Ben Carson High School in Detroit to give high school students a taste of what the medical profession is all about.
After about six months of searching, more than 160 applications and rigorous interviewing, Sharon Butler was named MSU’s new assistant vice president of human resources.
Some know residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, or U.P., as nothing more than Yoopers, but at a recent Marquette County Board of Commissioners meeting, there was an effort to have their voice be heard.
Packaging senior Matt Weal cannot fathom what MSU was like 155 years ago.
For graduate student Lissa Oshei, studying for the LSAT was not something she took lightly. Oshei, originally from Buffalo, N.Y., said she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Puget Sound in Washington before coming to MSU and took an eight-week prep course to prepare for the exam. She said she received an OK score on the LSAT and decided to attend MSU College of Law after the school extended her a scholarship offer. To help students prepare for the LSAT, Kyle Clifton, vice chair for Finance and Operations at ASMSU, said ASMSU offers assessments and practice exams, as well as weekly in-class preparation. “Last fall and spring semester, over 70 students took advantage of our test prep courses,” he said.
Over the spring 2012 commencement weekend, the winners of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences Media Sandbox Creative Challenge finally saw their semesterlong project pay off.
Intoxicated minors who seek medical help for alcohol consumption soon will be protected by a new state law that grants amnesty to those who recognize they need help.