There are thousands of ways to say thank you - cards, flowers, flying a flag 7,000 miles away in the middle of Afghanistan. The latter was the choice of U.S.
In his fourth floor Agriculture Hall office, Joe Levine is surrounded by souvenirs. Some he has collected over the years on various travels, like the puppets and books from Indonesia and the lamp with the clarinet base he made himself after spending a summer as a clarinet student at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Most of them, though, are from former colleagues and students who have traveled abroad and returned with a gift-a testament to the legacy that Levine has left on their lives.
Focused on supporting the well-being of children and families, the Families and Communities Together Coalition (FACT) at MSU is granting $160,000 to four research projects dedicated to preventing overweight children, domestic violence, sexual harassment of high school students and literacy about genetics research. "We believe each project has great potential to create significant impacts," FACT co-Director Janet Bokemeier said. Grant recipients will be examining gendered bullying among rural high schools, genetics literacy and informed consent, young child overweight prevention study, and evaluation of group intervention for women and children experiencing domestic violence.
The nine MSU students who face punishment from the Recording Industry Association of America are not alone. Activist groups, fellow students and artists stand by the file sharers. One such group, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, is no stranger to the struggle between file sharers and the RIAA.
President Vincente Fox of Mexico might drop by MSU during an upcoming visit to Michigan in June, MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said.
A recent MSU study found that people in Michigan who have low incomes might be more likely to develop brain cancer.
Campus is on orange alert. Brightly colored orange stickers have sprung up everywhere attached to unregistered bicycles because they are in violation of MSU Board of Trustees Ordinance 33.
An MSU study, commissioned by AT&T Corp., has discovered companies who don't get their supplies from other companies, could be in trouble if their main supplier goes out of business.
Instead of looking down on cement roofs, students taking classes at the Plant and Soil Sciences Building will be able to look down on plants and grass.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan will host a 5K walk at 7:30 p.m. today, beginning and ending at the Auditorium.
A new report by the MSU Site for Information and Telecommunication Experimentation, or M-SITE, has recently found communities in northern Michigan without broadband service suffer because of it.
Lovingly, a few students wiped dew drops off their self-made formula racing car Monday, following a heavy rainfall - allowing the green gleam of the car's fresh paint to shine all the brighter. Starting Wednesday, the student-built race car will compete in the Society of Automotive Engineering International Competition at the Pontiac Silverdome. Last year, MSU placed third overall. After dedicating a full year to creating, building and designing the car, the MSU Formula SAE team is optimistic about racing its newly designed car against those from schools in 139 countries. "It's the best car we've had yet," said Nick Periat, an engineering arts senior at MSU and the project's chief engineer.
Racial, ethnic and economic minority students will not be disappearing from MSU lecture halls and dorm rooms this fall if the College Access and Opportunity Act passes. The bill, which recently was proposed in the U.S.
When students go to print their syllabus off of A New Global Environment for Learning, or ANGEL, they will see a very different program from the soon to be retired Blackboard system.
MSU researchers from the colleges of food safety, packaging and supply chain management are working to develop ways to protect the nation's food supply from any kind of contamination or terrorist attacks.
MSU Extension Manure Management Team is sponsoring a two-day seminar from 9-4 p.m. May 25-26 at the DeWitt Banquet and Conference Center in DeWitt to discuss agricultural operations and how they impact the quality of air. Speakers include faculty from MSU and the University of Minnesota.
The Library of Michigan and MSU Libraries are working together to enhance both collections, by creating one combined card catalogue, which will help the former save more than $165,000 in costs throughout the next five years.
The 40th Annual MSU Spring Arts and Crafts show will be held from 9-6 p.m. Saturday and 10-5 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Grand River Avenue and Abbott Road.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety spent its first week of vacation slightly different from the students and faculty who went home to relax. DPPS officers and staff members began a two-part program that simulated a biological disaster at Erickson Hall, and the unannounced training was followed by fire drills across campus the rest of the week.
More than 150 graduate employees, undergraduates, and faculty members marched across the campus Thursday beating buckets like drums and carrying picket signs to gain attention from university officials about teaching assistant cuts. The march was organized by the Graduate Employees Union in response to at least 50 TAs who had received notice that they might not have positions in the fall because of the university's financial woes.