For the next 48 hours, all campus activities including classes and sporting events are canceled. Crisis counselors will be at the Hannah Community Center beginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
The Michigan State University shooting suspect that died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Lansing is confirmed to be a 43-year-old man with no affiliation to the university.
Du escaped Michigan State University's mass shooting on Feb. 13. The shooting left three dead and at least five injured.
UPDATE: The suspect in a mass shooting on Michigan State University's campus that has left three dead and multiple injured is dead, MSUPD interim deputy chief Chris Rozman confirmed at 12:38 p.m. at a press briefing.
MSU students describe their experience of being on campus during a shooting at multiple locations.
MSUPD interim deputy chief Chris Rozman has confirmed that the shooter has died of a self-inflicted wound. The shelter-in-place order has been lifted and there is no longer a threat on campus.
“I feel like if my school would have encouraged us to attend these sorts of events, it would have given me more knowledge of what I wanted to do when I was older,” event chair and SWE member Paulina Sandoval said. “It wouldn’t have left me scrambling. I was a senior in high school trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, with my college career.”
A sister survivors advocacy group said the unredacted releases of the Quinn Emanuel and Honigman reports give them hope for the new Board of Trustees. While it is a step towards transparency, the university still has a lot to do in terms of Title IX, advocates said.
Trying to find community in a university setting poses many challenges, but adapting to a predominantly white space as a Black student can bring even more.
People can enter by sending money for raffle tickets to the Tower Guard Venmo account: @MSUTG22-23. The raffle will end at 5 p.m. on Feb. 12 and a random generator will pick the winning raffle.
The immunologist who rose to prominence as the face of the nation’s COVID-19 response will speak to recipients of doctoral degrees in May.
The board voted unanimously to move forward with the new research center in hopes to address healthcare inequity in Detroit.
The new Multicultural Center has been authorized for construction by the Board of Trustees, along with the reconstruction of the Farm Lane Bridge. The board also authorized the planning of Campbell Hall Renovations and a new turfgrass testing facility on campus.
The board has instructed the firm to assemble the findings of probes into the Title IX office and the removal of Gupta into one report intended for full public release.
MSU’s board has approved FIFA funding for research and development of natural grass playing surfaces capable of surviving without sunlight in indoor stadiums.
In a closed-session meeting Thursday, the board told faculty leaders it expects a written proposal for faculty and student involvement by April, when it will assemble the full committee.
The five-year plan is a diversity, equity and inclusion program complete with surveys, community feedback and strategic planning built to “kind of keep track of and hold ourselves accountable to the goals that we want to see at MSU,” ASMSU chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer Nadir Hamid said.
The Black Mental Health Coalition, or BMHC, is a group devoted to fostering a safe space and loving environment for students to discuss their mental, physical and spiritual health.
“There’s a variety of stressors that are impacting bird communities across the world, two of which are climate change and land use change,” Doser said. “But really, there's not all that much known about the relative importance of these different variables in influencing birds.”
From planning a new research building to a FIFA turfgrass facility, here's what to expect at the Board of Trustees meeting this Friday.