A $146 million renovation project for MSU’s Life Sciences Building could enter planning stages this year, potentially marking the first state aid toward university building restorations in three years.
The band Hellogoodbye will headline the seventh annual Sparty’s Spring Party on April 19 at Demonstration Field, according to a release. The University Activities Board, or UAB, announced Monday the free event will host local bands Bishop’s Collar and A Letter To You and another national band.
The first place Lillian Collins searches for her required text books is her computer.Collins, a social relations and policy junior, started purchasing books from Amazon.com after spending about $800 for books her freshman year.
After more than two years in bureaucratic gridlock, The State News may soon know whether MSU can withhold a 2006 police report detailing a campus assault.
To Liz Schweitzer, stories are the heart of the Catholic Church. So the best way to commemorate St. John Student Parish’s 50 years in East Lansing, she said, was to put personal stories of alumni on display. Collecting stories and experiences of at least 50 alumni from the past five decades was an easy feat, said Schweitzer, a pastoral associate who has been working at the parish for 30 years.
Ernest Delfosse will become chairman of the MSU Department of Entomology May 1.
The value of a mechanical engineering degree from MSU could increase after a cutting-edge, 250-ton hydraulic press is delivered to campus in July.
Clarification: The Oct. 17, 2006 letter mentioned in the page Page One article “Law school dean involved in possible conflict of interest” (SN 2/19), Page One article “College of Law seeks stable, reliable dean in new search” (SN 10/8/07), page 4a editorial “Stability, longevity needed for college of law” (SN 10/10/07) and Page One article “Move to strike” (SN 10/27/06) from the president of the law college to then-Dean Terence Blackburn said “the office of Provost has investigated the oral charges made against you by certain faculty members and found such charges to be unsubstantiated and without merit.”
Although some students choose to don bathing suits and relax on the beach during spring break, others are exchanging swimwear for shovels and paint brushes. Fifty-one congregates from Martin Luther Chapel will leave for mission trips to one of four sites today and Saturday: El Paso, Texas, Phoenix, Haiti and Nicaragua.
MSU is expected to issue a report to Congress today detailing MSU’s use of its $1.2 billion endowment, MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said.
Students will decide if two organizations join ASMSU’s Programming Board during this spring’s student referendum.
Just what do the College of Engineering’s program fees pay for? That was the question Art Covert and a group of other graduate students from both the Graduate Employees Union, or GEU, and the Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Association asked. The answer they discovered, they didn’t like.
The sound of friends cracking cans open and the thump of ping-pong balls hitting party cups echoed off the dorm room walls when journalism sophomore Dan Schmidt heard a knock on the door.
March will mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Since it began, thousands of lives have been affected by the war, including the lives of Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi political analyst, and Patricia McCann, a U.S. veteran of the Iraq war.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is, in his own words, a “Hitler of the time.” “This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their right to their resources,” Mugabe said in a 2003 speech at the state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers.
In the aftermath of two mass university shootings in the past year, the responsibility of identifying and treating troubled campus residents falls to MSU residence halls and Counseling Center staff.
Angelique Day said she never imagined that the 18 months she spent in foster care would make her an asset to the child welfare system. But they have. Day, a social work researcher, said she was embarrassed of her foster care history when she began her journey as an MSU student.
Alexandra Gade, an assistant professor at MSU, was drawn to the university because of its rare premier isotope laboratory, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
Diane Ebert-May thinks all students at MSU should be scientifically literate. That’s why the plant biology professor, along with a team of faculty, began research to determine the impact of general science education courses on students’ quantitative and scientific reasoning skills.
Both an Iraqi political analyst and a U.S. veteran of the Iraq war will share personal experiences of the war in Iraq at 7 p.m. tonight in B108 Wells Hall.