Horticulture professor gives $40K endowment
Randy Beaudry said he’s never known a faculty member to donate personal fundraising money back to a department’s general fund. That is, until horticulture professor Brad Rowe did.
Randy Beaudry said he’s never known a faculty member to donate personal fundraising money back to a department’s general fund. That is, until horticulture professor Brad Rowe did.
An MSU study shows growth in the state’s agri-foods and agri-energy sectors, despite sluggish times for Michigan’s economy.
MSU students, faculty and staff with children who fall within the autism spectrum met Saturday at The Art Museum at MSU, inside Kresge Art Center, to work on arts and crafts that a local coffee shop will display in March.
Jack’s Mannequin has been confirmed to perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
After 11 years at the Union, the Office of Study Abroad changed venues for its annual spring study abroad fair, holding the event at LaSalle Bank Club in the Spartan Stadium tower Thursday.
ASMSU might sponsor a concert this semester if Student Assembly passes a $180,000 bill to fund the event during its Jan. 31 meeting.
Assistant professor Ilana Blumberg’s first published book was named runner-up for a national award and is one of five finalists in the running for the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish literature.
For Tom Rayman, filing his tax return form for the first time meant seeking help from his parents. “It was just difficult discerning what everything was and how to interpret it for the first time,” the criminal justice junior said.
No other wienie in history has spread as many miles of smiles as the infamous “Lamborwienie” – the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
In one year, Jared Knoodle will have been to more major sporting events than many fans get to attend in a lifetime. Knoodle, a turfgrass management senior, attended the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in San Francisco in July. As winner of the sixth annual Toro Super Bowl Sports Turf Training Program, he’s packing his bags for his next destination – Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz.
MSU is welcoming more than 160 businesses and organizations this week as the Kellogg Center hosts back-to-back career fairs. About 110 companies attended the Supply Chain Management Career Fair on Wednesday, said Hans Kraemer, a supply chain management senior who helped coordinate the event.
The University Activities Board and MSU will host the second annual Super Swing N’ Salsa Spectacular Saturday in the Union.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will meet with Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly members today to discuss student concerns on campus.
Departments within the School of Planning, Design & Construction will call a single building home when the school moves all operations to Human Ecology Building in September.
Students celebrated the new year of trees Tuesday night at Hillel Jewish Student Center by eating traditional dried fruits, planting flowers and parsley and promoting environmental awareness.
Health care and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. announced plans Tuesday to donate $6.5 million in surplus equipment to Michigan’s research universities, including MSU.
More than 40 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. inspired about 250,000 people to march for freedom in Washington, D.C. On Monday, more than 200 people met at the Union to carry on the tradition.
The School of Hospitality Business’ efforts to fund a revitalized Culinary Business Learning Lab were aided by a $1.3 million grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, the school announced Friday.
The MSU College of Law Rental Housing Clinic will host a seminar Feb. 11 to educate renters on home ownership.
Minutes from past ASMSU meetings and up-to-date contact information for representatives will be a click away for students when ASMSU launches a new Web site this semester.