For foodservice business management junior Tracy Garley, there’s more to the college experience at MSU than spending four years on the banks of the Red Cedar.
Brendan Sinclair was searching for a “deeper connection” to his food when he started volunteering at the Student Organic Farm two years ago.
MSU police are investigating a report of an armed robbery against an 18-year-old male student that occurred at about 3 a.m.
MSU baker Rita Lyon will roll out bagels in an unusual color for the month of October: pink. She’ll be baking about 600 dozen bagels in the shape of ribbons to raise awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in honor of her mother, Gwen, who died of breast cancer in 1972.
John Olle has been a faithful tailgater at MSU since his days as a student here in the early 1990s. But the Mason, Mich., resident always had trouble getting his tailgate group to play the MSU Fight Song in unison because problems arose with making sure everyone started it at the same time. So Olle called Impact (89FM) and requested it play the MSU Fight Song on game days.
With a multi-million dollar federal grant in hand, officials hope the information superhighway might be the path toward increasing economic activity and quality of life for urban residents across the state. The university, in partnership with statewide institutions, including Jackson Community College and Lansing Community College as well as state and local government agencies, received a federal grant of about $5.2 million Tuesday to support communities and its residents in an attempt to increase the state’s broadband use. The award money will be distributed to cover the cost of people to teach classes, ensure each class can be offered to residents at minimal cost and to cover the cost of evaluating the potential increase in broadband adoption should the program become successful, said Kurt DeMaagd, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media. “It’s a nice fit into the overall MSU model — a community outreach and engagement process — (and also) a research project to understand what works and what doesn’t,” he said. The cities of Benton Harbor, Detroit, Flint, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Muskegon Heights, Pontiac and Saginaw — otherwise known as “Michigan’s Cities of Promise” — were chosen by Gov.
The MSU Cricket Club, or MSUCC, recently returned from competing in the American College Cricket Midwest Conference Championship this weekend in Columbus, Ohio. MSU defeated the College of Wooster and fell to Ohio State University, vice president of the MSUCC and accounting senior Adnan Dalal said. The team holds practices from 8-11 p.m.
A 10-minute brainstorming session can accomplish a lot. While riding back from class together, hospitality business seniors John Triblo and Brian Weber developed the idea to start the Spartan Enology Society, or SES.
After five years of research by a collaboration of Spartan biologists, engineers and computer scientists, MSU’s BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action published its first report since opening its doors earlier this year. The study focuses on why, in a survival of the fittest state of nature, organisms help each other, said Jeff Clune, an MSU alumnus and lead author of the study. By witnessing digital evolution in motion, researchers now are able to better understand the behavior of the altruism gene.
MSU College Democrats held a watch party at 7 p.m. yesterday in Case Hall for President Barack Obama’s youth rally.
As Genesee County commissioners work to balance the county’s budget prior to the Friday deadline, officials at the MSU Extension office in Genesee County, Mich., are bracing for the potential of steep cuts.
The RCAH Center for Poetry will host the “Odes to Autumn” Writing Workshop at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 in Snyder and Phillips halls.
The MSU Breakdance Club began five years ago with biosystems engineering senior and club president Andy Tran and two of his friends.
Alternative pop band Passion Pit will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at the MSU Auditorium. The group will play as part of the Campus Consciousness Tour, a program developed to promote environmental consciousness on campus. Canadian rapper Drake came to MSU as part of the Campus Consciousness spring 2010 tour. “It’s a program … to enhance college students’ ideas and educate them about how to be environmentally friendly,” said Emily Tschirhart, spokeswoman for Residence Halls Association. Tickets are $21 for students and $30 for the public.
Recent approvals given by U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, officials for MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, nudges the multimillion dollar project closer to completion toward the end of the decade. On Thursday, the FRIB project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the DOE.
MSU was chosen as one of four schools to be featured in a national live broadcast on NBC at 2 p.m. Monday at Breslin Center.
The 2010 World Stem Cell Summit will be co-hosted by MSU, Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Brisk winds, caramel apples and beautiful days for football are indications of only one thing — fall has arrived. Since Wednesday’s official ushering in of the new season, East Lansing residents and students swapped bikinis and shorts for sweatshirts and blue jeans. “I usually wear layers and layers of clothes,” said Jimmy Johnson, a psychology and premedical sophomore. “I’m already starting to do that and it’s bad because it’s just fall.
After a summer of renovations to Hubbard Hall’s interior, university officials ushered in a new phase of MSU’s living and learning experience, presenting it to the public during a grand opening event Thursday afternoon. Changes made to the hall is the first step in MSU’s plan to expand the Neighborhood Concept pilot project.
The MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, project was issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI, status by the U.S.