Students might notice an increase in their ASMSU tax starting next fall if a referendum is approved by the student body to continue funding the new Readership Program, ASMSU officials said Thursday.
Professional musician and Okemos resident Les Jorgensen doesn’t remember talking about pop music or fashion while growing up. His father, Owen Jorgensen, MSU professor emeritus of music, incited philosophical discussion and historical debates, he said.
In a small corner installation inside MSU’s Kresge Art Museum, the chaotic, powerful vision of a Korean-born artist has finally come to fruition.
Four years of planning paid off in August when the Chemistry Building addition was awarded with the LEED silver level certification, making it the greenest building on campus.
Martika Hite didn’t know how to get to her first classes Wednesday, but the pre-nursing freshman said she knew where to go when she received her first assignments: Holden Hall.
MSU’s oldest residence hall has been given a face-lift and is now open to students for the first time in more than a year.
Despite a shortened Welcome Week, turnout to MSU’s 29th annual U-Fest remained consistent, attracting more than 5,000 students.
As new and returning MSU students said goodbye to their families Sunday, residents and City Council members from their new home in East Lansing welcomed them in.
Capital Area Transportation Authority buses resumed MSU service, but returning students might notice some route changes.
A new partnership between MSU’s College of Nursing and Hope College might bring more nursing doctoral candidates to the university and alleviate a shortage of nursing faculty across the country, school officials said.
Rachel Plawecki was left with few choices for food when the dormitory cafeterias closed Tuesday for Spartan Spectacular.
Students might have to shell out more cash for tuition this year after the MSU Board of Trustees decided in June to increase rates by almost $600 for the year to fit with the approved 2009-10 budget.
Classes just started, but students can start searching for a part-time job or next summer’s internship Sept. 9 at the Earn, Learn and Intern Fair.
The 46th session of ASMSU kicked off Saturday at a Student Assembly meeting at Patriarch Park, 1100 Alton Road, to appoint new representatives, outline the upcoming school year and discuss ways to increase the group’s campus presence.
The author of “The Soloist,” Steve Lopez, came to inspire new Spartans to find passion at MSU on Monday morning at Breslin Center, as part of the university’s “One Book, One Community” program.
Supervisors should be more attentive to the work and family needs of employees to maximize worker health and efficiency, according to a recent study co-authored by an MSU professor. Ellen Kossek, an MSU professor of organizational behavior and human resource management, helped create a training program aimed to ease tensions between employees’ work and family demands by instructing supervisors to address those concerns.
MSU researchers are working on reducing poverty and mitigating climate change at the same time. Their project, called Carbon2Markets, works to slow climate change through sequestering carbon via agroforestry and helps provide income to farmers.
Cheryl Goetz beat more than 100 applicants vying for 18 spots for a summer internship at the Houston-based National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, to study the health risks of long-term space flight on the human body. Goetz, a mathematics and premedical senior, said she has been working since May with the NASA Flight Analogs Project, a program that studies the effects of microgravity and space flight on the human body at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, Texas. “Every day I learn something new,” she said.
An MSU researcher could unlock genetic factors that contribute to plant invasions with the help of a $630,000 grant awarded by the National Science Foundation. The grant, which will be distributed during the next four years, was awarded last month to Jennifer Lau, a plant evolutionary ecologist with the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station’s Kellogg Biological Station.
Six premedical students from Grand Valley State University have been admitted to the MSU College of Human Medicine under an agreement geared toward students from and wishing to practice medicine in areas with low medical accessibility.