Causes for common childhood ailments such as asthma and cerebral palsy are one step closer in their discovery through MSU and its partners’ collaboration on the largest human health study ever performed in the country.
After Shruti Agrawal heard about Thurgood Marshall’s impact on the civil rights movement, the accounting senior wanted to find a way to honor his legacy. Agrawal and two teammates hope to win Marshall a spot in the Black History Month Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame tonight during the group’s ninth annual competition.
The MSU Board of Trustees on Friday appointed an assistant state attorney general and former corrections officer to the MSU College of Law Board of Trustees.
All MSU study abroad programs in London will be centralized at one campus beginning this summer, following a partnership with Regent’s College in London. Prior to the agreement, MSU’s London study abroad programs were not coordinated on a single campus, said Brett Berquist, director of MSU’s Office of Study Abroad.
Although the trauma of experiencing breast cancer frequently lasts with survivors, an MSU professor has found complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, can alleviate further sickness.
In the future, MSU might provide cover for students tired of returning to find their bikes damaged, wet or gone altogether.
Swingin’ dance moves rocked the International Center on Friday as the State Swing Society taught students how to sock hop.
A class of James Madison College students who started fall semester with the question of how to attract and retain young, creative minds in Lansing and Michigan is tackling the problem through a survey and a spring break trip.
What the 27th annual Pow-Wow of Love lacked in competition, it made up for in spirit. The North American Indigenous Student Organization, or NAISO, hosted the 27th annual Pow-Wow of Love on Saturday and Sunday at Jenison Field House, but a mainstay for the event was missing: numerous competitive dances.
Students will have the opportunity to offer their opinion on the neighborhood concept at a Monday night student summit.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Thursday her intentions to revive the defunct Michigan Promise Scholarship as an income tax credit as part of her 2010-11 fiscal year budget proposal.
Electric, water, gas, cable and don’t forget groceries. Managing everyday expenses can get messy, and when Michigan lawmakers develop the state’s annual budget, items more significant than milk might get cut from the list.
A student judiciary board dismissed a nearly year-old complaint against the Council of Graduate Students on Thursday after the complainant disagreed with how the process was handled.
Associated Press reporter Kathy Barks Hoffman and National Public Radio correspondent Don Gonyea will speak at the MSU School of Journalism’s annual Frederick S. Siebert Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday in Room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.
Richard Foster was named the W.K Kellogg Professor in Food, Society and Sustainability at MSU, a position that became effective Jan. 1.
In a weeklong visit to war-torn Iraq, an MSU official began discussions of how the university’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources potentially could help the country rebuild.
Up-and-coming Canadian rapper Drake is scheduled to perform at MSU in April, although details about the rapper’s performance remain uncertain. Tour dates for Drake’s The Away from Home Tour indicate the rapper is scheduled to perform at MSU on April 14. His Web site does not specify a venue.
The MSU Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the progress of several campus construction projects and also might approve a student rights and responsibilities document at its meeting Friday. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 9:30 a.m. in Room 401 of the Administration Building.
After trekking an hour up the slippery face of a mountain in full space gear, Mike Moran had reached the summit. Moran and two other crew members traveled 30 minutes from their temporary home in the Mars Desert Research Station to Olympus Mons, a Martian mountain three times the size of Mount Everest.
A report released by Massachusetts-based policy think tank MassINC found students and their families often do not make the best financial investments in higher education because of a lack of readily available information.