MSU students participated in a nationwide event Friday by wearing formal clothing to protest a Mississippi high school canceling prom because Constance McMillen, a lesbian student at the school, requested to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., announced the MSU College of Nursing was awarded about $7 million Wednesday to expand research facilities.
MSU and East Lansing officials are urging students and their guests to celebrate responsibly during Final Four weekend, and have set up several events and safety tip Web sites to help.
As part of a yearlong, universitywide effort, MSU is preparing to launch a new design for its home page Friday at MSU.edu.
Many professors are expecting fewer students in class after the Final Four game. Some say they are considering postponing exams or canceling class altogether.
The MSU Department of Psychology will host the first Psychology Multicultural Student Conference this month.
The MSU Honors College is sponsoring Geek Week 2010 next week by hosting daily activities for students.
The world’s largest particle accelerator made history Tuesday when two beams of energy collided with one another at levels never before seen by scientists — and a team of MSU researchers had a front row seat as it happened.
A student judiciary board hearing involving two former student government officials was held Tuesday evening, although the meeting was closed to the public and its outcome will not be known until the end of the week. The hearing occurred a year after a report leveling allegations against Manish Madan, former president of the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, surfaced during a meeting to elect the group’s executive board.
The MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences will hold group sessions to discuss curriculum changes within the journalism school each day this week from either 9-10 a.m.
A new clothing line started by an MSU alumnus and Western Michigan University student is set to launch Thursday in what the pair hopes will be a positive showing of innovation in a state whose livelihood has been underscored by economic despair.
Temperatures will continue to hold in the 70s this week and might break a record high of 81 degrees Friday. Meteorologists warn conditions this weekend are prime for fire outbreaks.
A conference, Why it Matters: Addressing Myths and Realities of the Relationship Among Mental Health, Violence and Muslims, will take place from 8:45 a.m.
A dedicated group of Spartan fans took advantage of the good weather to bid the No. 5-seed MSU men’s basketball team adieu as they head to the Final Four in Indianapolis. More than 100 people from MSU and the surrounding community cheered on head coach Tom Izzo and his players as they embarked from Breslin on a trip through Lansing and East Lansing that would give the Spartan faithful a chance to cheer for the team as they left town.
About 40 students met with university administrators Tuesday to voice concerns about potential budget cuts to programs aimed at multicultural students, including a potential 7 percent cut to the Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions, or OCAT.
For MSU’s College of Nursing, education is going virtual as the school explores Spartan Health Island, an online community that allow students to become avatars and simulate home visits with patients. Spartan Health Island, located within the online community of Second Life, has been implemented in the course Nursing 470, Community Health and Population Nursing.
The MSU Polish Club hosted an egg-ornamenting event Tuesday in celebration of this weekend’s Easter holiday. Pisanki, derived from the Polish word “pisac” meaning “to write,” is the term used to describe the technique of decorating an egg with any pattern or image desired.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine LGBT Allies in Medicine will host several speakers this week as a part of LGBT Health Awareness Week: Closing the Gap.
Officials on the newly elected executive board for the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, want to create new programs and services for the more than 10,000 graduate and professional students at MSU, but said their plans are contingent on a tax referendum currently before students.