When students start classes in a couple weeks they will be able to access more online classes than ever before.There are 131 online classes scheduled for the fall semester - an increase from 117 during fall semester 2002.University officials say the increase comes from students wanting flexibility in their scheduling, as well as colleges wanting to expand their resources.
When the Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Services released a list of nursing school scholarship recipients last week, one of the state's largest programs was left out - MSU. Institutions across the state, including Lansing Community College, received a total of $50,000 under a program established in 2000 to combat the state's nursing shortage dilemma.
Herman King, a retired MSU administrator and alumnus died Sunday at the age of 88. "He liked everything about MSU," his wife, Alice King, remembered.
MSU computer experts say students shouldn't worry about their school account being hacked into, despite an University of Michigan student recently being charged with hacking into student and faculty member accounts. U-M graduate student Ning Ma hacked into the accounts to obtain credit card numbers, final exams and send phony e-mails, some with the intent of receiving sexual favors from students.
Alex Amemone traveled thousands of miles from her Tucson, Ariz., home to MSU's campus just to win an argument.The 16-year-old is one of about 300 high schoolers who had to adjust to life in the dorms during the 13th annual Spartan Debate Institute."I finally learned how to do my own laundry," Amemone said.
Fort Wayne, Ind. - Between "be safe" and "have a good trip," Laura McCoy had another special request for her son, biochemistry junior Andrew McCoy, as he took off for Israel. "Have an Israeli beer for me," she said as he walked through the security gates at Fort Wayne International Airport on Saturday. Andrew McCoy and international relations senior Daniel Grimm joined 48 other students from across the nation as part of two-week anti-terrorism fellowship in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Grower's Day will be hosted on Tuesday at MSU's Plant and Soil Sciences Building greenhouse. Visitors will learn about MSU's research involving bedding plants and perennials and go on a tour of the trial gardens.
Tickets will be on sale starting Friday for "Icelandics on Ice," an ice show scheduled to arrive 7 p.m.
As 10-year-old Chris McClain eagerly navigated the controls of his computer game at space camp on Wednesday, the furthest thing from his mind was that NASA could use his reactions to the game to recruit more scientists.McClain is one of 40 children at the MSU Space Pioneers Learning Adventures, a free two-week camp for fifth-and eighth-grade boys and girls interested in learning about space and science.
When thousands of students and faculty pour back into campus in August, they may notice a change to their green and white Web site. The university will officially launch its updated Web site on Aug.
Wake up and smell the orchids. That's the idea a team of MSU researchers have been working on in an attempt to get people more interested in growing and buying the flower.
Use of the Internet may improve children's academic performance and doesn't have any negative effects on social behavior according to a study conducted by MSU. HomeNetToo is a three-year study that followed how low-income families use the Internet at home and what effects it had on them. "We wanted to study low-income families because there is so little research on their technology use," Linda Jackson, psychology professor and lead investigator on the project said.
An MSU professor and a team of researchers from across the country have discovered the DNA sequence they say can help control a fungus that cuts crop yields and produces toxins.New farming practices and climate change have made the fungus, known as Fusarium graminearum, a problem for farmers during the last 10 years.Fungicides have been used to combat the problem, but nothing has been proven effective, researchers say."We've tried to find the weak link in the disease process," said Corby Kistler, a researcher from the University of Minnesota's ARS Cereal Disease Lab.
A team of MSU researchers have been working on a project that could produce better tasting bacon.Ronald Bates, a swine specialist with MSU's animal science department, and eight other colleagues will begin working on a unique swine population in the fall to determine how muscle mass affects the taste and quality of pork.
Alumnus donates life sciences fellowship A fellowship will be available for students in the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management starting in 2004. The James M.
Most children would say they'd rather spend summer days playing outside than learning. But for the more than 250 third and fourth graders who spent two weeks on campus for Kid's College, they say braving the classroom in the summer was worth it. Sitting next to a structure made of wooden dowels pegged into a board with string to hold up action figures, 10-year-old Jessie Marshall-Reeve learned about structures, gravity and architecture.
Researchers in MSU's Department of Epidemiology are trying to find out how environmental factors influence a developing fetus later on in life.
Life is full of many choices in regards to what one does with his or her health.Charles Torpe, coordinator of the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs Education Seminar, or ATODES, has taught this lesson to many MSU students during the last seven years.Sober for 12 years, Torpe said the job was therapy for his everyday life."Things I most need to remember myself are things that I need to help students be aware of," Torpe said.Torpe will be leaving the program to move with his recently graduated girlfriend.
After 106 years of reporting to the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, the MSU Museum will now be under the wing of the College of Arts and Letters.Officials say departments across campus are figuring out ways to streamline and collaborate in the face of harsh budget constraints - the museum realignment is just another example of that.
Former MSU basketball star Steve Smith and his wife Millie will be lending Sparty a hand in his transition into bronze. The two have been asked to be honorary chairpersons for the $500,000 project, slated to be completed by 2005.