Break dance crews across the nation met Saturday night in IM Sports-West for the Red Cedar Ransom, or the first jam held by the MSU Breakdance Club. Thirteen crews competed in the event, with the top team winning a first place, $1,000 prize.
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed a $9.1 million cut to MSU’s funding in February, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said there would be cutbacks. To compensate for the lack of state funding, she said it would take an almost 9 percent tuition increase or more than 700 faculty and staff layoffs.
RHA passed a revision to its bylaws Wednesday to fix a discrepancy regarding hiring practices. On April 8, RHA’s committee on internal affairs was asked to review bylaws because it was unclear if Chief of Staff David Averill had followed them in recent hiring.
The sequins on the dancers’ long skirts gleamed from the stage as they twirled and bounced to the beat that echoed through the Auditorium at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for Satrang.
MSU students are expected to have access to $7 million in new scholarship funds and financial aid after the university received an anonymous $10 million donation, the largest anonymous donation for student scholarships in MSU history, the university announced Thursday.
Each group sat around small tables carefully cutting and gluing brightly colored sheets of paper onto posters. This wasn’t an elementary classroom, but one at MSU. The students are getting ready to share information about Arbor Day with middle schoolers.
Lengthy lines and scrambling students could potentially disappear from bookstores at the beginning of a new semester as a result of federal legislation. The legislation requires universities to make lists of course materials available to students by the opening of the enrollment process.
They varied in size, color and style, but the 300 shirts that hung from clotheslines Tuesday in the Union were all interwoven with a common theme: empowerment for the women who decorated them, survivors of sexual violence.
Nine MSU faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students have been chosen for a committee to review the job performance of the Chicano/Latino Studies program director during the next two months.
One MSU professor’s 30-year project is yielding results that could treat a disease affecting entire regions of the world.
When he’s not on stage, he leads a relatively quiet life with little fanfare. But to the 1,200 people who packed the Crossroads Food Court in the International Center on Friday night, he is Hershae Chocolatae.
When 2006 MSU graduate Alicia Bowerman moved to New York City three years ago, she had no job prospects but had plenty of MSU contacts. “It’s a small world, even though it’s New York City,” Bowerman said, laughing. “I mean, I run into people I went to basketball games with my freshman year.”
Students and community members gathered Thursday to commemorate the artwork of Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, which adorns the courtyard outside of Snyder-Phillips Hall as well as inside the Kresge Art Museum.
Students with green-and-white picket signs gathered Thursday at the Administration Building asking passers-by to sign a petition that seeks to cap tuition costs. A Facebook group called the Michigan State University Transparency and Accountability Initiative organized the protest, but representatives from the MSU Young Democratic Socialists also were present, among others.
More than 600 undergraduates crammed into the second floor of the Union on Thursday to present research projects at the 11th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, or UURAF.
Author and poet Stephen Haven will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 21 in the RCAH Theatre in Snyder-Phillips Hall as part of the Center for Poetry’s Poetry in the Spring series.
MSU undergraduates will present research projects today at the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum in the Union. The forum, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., features the projects of more than 600 MSU undergraduates that range from genetic mapping to creative writing.
The search for a new children’s choir director for the MSU Community Music School is over. University officials sought applicants from as far away as Italy and Australia, but the search concluded with one of MSU’s own.
A Lyman Briggs College alumnus will speak at the first commencement held by the college since the decision to reinstate it in 2006. Capt. Kenneth Earhart is commander of the Cairo, Egypt-based infectious disease research facility U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, or NAMRU-3.
Health officials investigating the campus outbreak of a stomach virus two weeks ago have determined a time frame in which they believe most students were infected.