MSU faculty, students show documentary
Two years of hard work paid off as two MSU faculty members premiered their documentary “Arabs, Jews, & the News” on Monday night at the Communications Arts and Sciences Building.
Two years of hard work paid off as two MSU faculty members premiered their documentary “Arabs, Jews, & the News” on Monday night at the Communications Arts and Sciences Building.
Increased student involvement, improved interdepartmental collaboration and goal setting for the coming school year were some of the various topics at a retreat undertaken by ASMSU this weekend.
As a group of children added watercolor paint to their own version of what a tropical fish would look like Saturday, MSU art education seniors taught them how to mix colors at MSU’s Saturday Morning Art program.
A week dedicated to promoting and celebrating Japanese culture began this weekend as MSU’s eighth annual Japan Week hit East Lansing.
As part of the federally recognized Constitution Day, MSU students and faculty gathered Thursday to discuss how various national issues fit within the document and what it means to today’s society.
Come November, the walls of the Auditorium will shake to the rhythm of songs by pop-rock bands Taking Back Sunday, The All-American Rejects and Anberlin when they perform at a concert sponsored by the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, the organization announced Wednesday.
Students whose professional résumés include video, audio and pictures might be able to showcase their work with the help of an MSU alumnus. Anthony Grinblat, a 2008 advertising and telecommunication, information studies and media graduate, started his own Web site, cybfolio.com, which allows users to create cyber portfolios able to display works of video, photo and audio. Instead of creating separate DVDs or CDs, the site allows users to upload work directly to the site and reference potential employers to a personalized Web site.
The difficulties of female college students establishing a career in predominately male fields were highlighted in a documentary and discussion Thursday afternoon at the Cyclotron.
MSU police have one person in custody and are searching for another after two on-campus assaults occurred within 24 hours of each other, raising concern among students.
Funding for free campus movies, television programming and concerts was a top priority in the Residence Halls Association’s, or RHA’s, fall semester budget approved Wednesday.
Gary Morgan’s love of museums stem from an unlikely, spiny source. Morgan, who became the director of the MSU Museum on Monday, once studied freshwater crayfish and planned for a career as a biologist.
As the sun set on Wells Hall Wednesday night, the Muslim Students’ Association joined some hungry friends at Fast-A-Thon to help break their respective fasts, as well as to help feed some less-fortunate area residents.
ASMSU will hit the road this weekend on a leadership and team-building retreat in Manistee, Mich., to develop governmental skills and set goals for the coming school year, group officials said Wednesday.
Members of the Chicano/Latino Studies program will converge at noon today outside College of Social Science Dean Marietta Baba’s office to address concerns about students’ treatment by the program’s faculty members and administration.
MSU prides itself on being “green,” and this week, the Capital Area Transportation Authority is asking students to be just that by participating in this year’s Clean Commute Challenge Week.
Taking a usual route to class might mean walking on history as MSU researchers and students are discovering more things that lie beneath the grass, including a prehistoric sand dune.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve its $472,848 fall semester budget. RHA is an on-campus student government group that represents all students living in residence halls.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday voted to pass a bill to recommend the university extend future fall Welcome Weeks to seven days, citing inadequate time for new students to adjust to the university and resident mentors’ shortened schedule to help such students. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
President Lou Anna K. Simon prepared Faculty Council members Tuesday for a budget reduction discussion to be held at next Tuesday’s Academic Council meeting.
A graduate student resource center and affordable health insurance for students who declare dependants will be among the key issues addressed by the Council of Graduate Students this year.