Just as a fingerprint or DNA can help police determine people linked to a crime, tattoos now will serve as an identifier thanks to research done by an MSU professor.
Liz Watson had to make a choice. The kinesiology junior was given an opportunity to write a report for her Spanish class last fall or do a service project for credit.
In most places, 40 degree weather, cold rain and 15 mph winds are not synonymous with ideal swimming conditions. The forecast didn’t faze the colorfully dressed pageant queens, Vikings, Care Bears and half-naked college students who dove into the frigid waters of Eagle Eye Golf Club, 15500 Chandler Road, for the sixth annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge.
MSU students looking for a taste of off-campus living without crossing Grand River Avenue will have an opportunity to do so next fall, thanks to a new student retention program that will increase the number of single room dorms on campus.
After removing the end date from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon’s employment contract last month, members of the MSU Board of Trustees said the action does not mean Simon intends to depart her post sooner than anticipated.
Kyle Martin was sitting in class — the same as any other day — when he received the news. He sprinted out of the lecture as soon as he got the text message: “What’s going on in Haiti is horrible.”
Billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, donated another $2 million to help the art museum bearing their name reach its funding goal of $40 million, the university announced Wednesday.
After hearing a tapping noise on her ground floor apartment window about two years ago, Kate found a sticky note with an online screen name secured to the glass. Kate, an MSU graduate student, assumed it was a prank until she found the same note attached to her car a few days later.
MSU’s Physical Plant Division and the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. today in the lunch room at the Physical Plant building.
Communication senior Allen Kuschell is on the lookout for a job or internship. With the economy the way it is, he said he’ll take whichever comes first.
Updates to MSU’s Academic Governance bylaws failed to move past Faculty Council for the second time this academic year after members sent the final substantive piece back to the committee-level Tuesday.
Ideas to reduce the MSU’s faculty health care costs by nearly $11 million were presented at Tuesday’s Faculty Council meeting as part of what could be years of changes to the university’s current system.
A deal completed Tuesday by MSU and Detroit radio station WJR (760-AM) would continue to give the station exclusive radio broadcast rights to MSU athletics until 2020, a university official said.
An online pilot program in West Circle dorms could be the future of MSU’s dorm maintenance request system.
The university is expanding its efforts to provide students living on campus with in-house advising by launching a new program geared toward sophomores this fall.
Beginning this month, MSU Recycling will now collect #3 through #7 plastics, boxboard and household metals, such as tin.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon’s two-year track record of declining salary increases is part of an emerging trend at public universities, according to a survey released Monday by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
For MSU students in Dubai, taxation without representation is a reality. For the past two years, MSU Dubai students have paid the $16.75 ASMSU tax and not received benefits, such as free blue books and legal counsel, available to students in East Lansing.
For Raven Lewis, the ability to participate in a community service project Monday was something she knew she could not take for granted. “Fifty years ago I wouldn’t have been able to go to MSU because blacks weren’t allowed to step foot on campus,” Lewis said.
MSU’s Academic Orientation Program, or AOP, now is taking applications for summer 2010 workers.