Many Honors College students know him as the name that appears daily in their e-mail inboxes, but Scott Vaughn has been helping students plan their academic career for the past 35 years. Vaughn, the assistant director of the Honors College, will retire Friday. "It's very rewarding, advising is a lot like teaching in certain respects," Vaughn said.
State Sen. Virg Bernero, D-Lansing, urged health and food services officials from K-12 schools across the state to clean up cafeteria food and teach proper eating habits to students in a conference held Wednesday at Kellogg Center. "It is outrageous what our schools are doing," he said.
The case of Tariq Ramadan and his revoked visa is a cause of outrage for members of the Muslim Students' Association of Michigan State University, but it might have only a minimal impact on the lives of international students. The association, a nationwide student group, is holding presentations at campuses across the nation in an attempt to educate students about what happened to Ramadan. In August, Ramadan, an internationally recognized Islamic scholar, and his family were in the process of relocating to Indiana to teach at the University of Notre Dame, when the U.S.
ASMSU will host a visit from East Lansing City Councilmember Bill Sharp at its general assembly meeting tonight to discuss recent city development plans that compromise city and student relations.
MSU Board of Trustees candidate Melanie Foster made her first campaign stop at MSU Tuesday. The fund-raiser reception was held in the atrium of the Radiology Building to promote the current Central Michigan University trustee's campaign.
About 30 students met Monday evening in the basement of the Union to generate discussion about the sexual assault cases on campus this semester. The meeting focused on how the administration, faculty and media are handling the assaults.
Officials from the Office of International Students and Scholars are warning of a phone scam that collects processing fees for a fake grant. According to an e-mail sent by the office, an MSU international student received a phone call last week from a person who claimed to be from a federal government grant agency and said he or she had an $8,000 grant.
ASMSU might soon upgrade its Web site that has been criticized for being ineffective and difficult to navigate. A bill to allocate funds for new technology to expand MSU's undergraduate student government's Web site and offices will be brought forward Thursday in ASMSU's Student Assembly general meeting.
After the Association of Michigan Universities conference this weekend at MSU, some of ASMSU's delegates said the association is an ineffective body that doesn't accomplish more than ASMSU can do by itself. "There wasn't a whole lot to be gained from this conference," said Tim Howes, a representative for the College of Engineering in ASMSU's Academic Assembly and an AMU delegate.
More than 1,000 free tickets are still available to see Michael Moore speak at noon Thursday at the Auditorium, but they are no longer being offered at Case Hall.
Members of the Executive Committee of Academic Council will meet to respond to a letter sent from representatives of the American Association of University Professors.
A mail truck driven by a 43-year-old male from DeWitt hit a Chevy Equinox on the corner of Red Cedar Road and Shaw Lane yesterday afternoon, MSU police Sgt.
Students and faculty members discussed the possible repercussions of an amendment that would define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. MSU's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Faculty, Staff and Graduate Student Association, or GLFSA, hosted a forum Tuesday to evaluate the local effects on domestic partnership benefits at MSU. "We are taking a two-tiered approach," GLFSA President Val Meyers said.
The Equine Club at the College of Veterinary Medicine will host its first stallion service auction fund-raiser throughout October.
Some students heading off to class in the morning are receiving a surprise once they reach the bike racks - their bikes are gone. Residence halls are the source of most bike thefts, said MSU police Sgt.
After almost three years of construction, the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health will be dedicated at noon on Thursday. The center, which is now located at the corner of Beaumont and Forest roads, has existed on campus for years, but had previously been divided into separate laboratories across campus. "It improves the efficiency and allows us to improve our turn-around time with results for our clients and puts us in a better position to maintain the integrity of the specimens," said Willie Reed, director of the center. The new laboratory will provide services for homeland security, animal care and the study of diseases such as bovine tuberculosis. Reed said the facility took almost three years to complete because of the sophisticated equipment and the large size of the building.
MSU's chapter of the Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute will receive a $350,000 grant from Community Oriented Policing Services to train law officers.
For bikes secured with a U-lock, the most dangerous utility a thief can have is the empty shaft of an ordinary ball-point pen. It was recently reported that the Kryptonite Evolution 2000 U-Lock can be opened by inserting the plastic casing of a pen and wiggling it.
The Dart Foundation donated more than $328,000 to MSU's Division of Science and Mathematics Education to support the Michigan Science Olympiad for the next five years.
The National Science Foundation awarded MSU a $700,000 grant to support the study of nanotechnology.