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New vapor shop opens in East Lansing
East Lansing, MSU community specifically selected for new vapor shop
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Four MSU students nominated for National Barry Goldwater Scholarship
MSU has announced the four undergraduate nominees for the National Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The students are nominated based on academic achievement as well as research work in the STEM fields. “The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in these fields,” according to the scholarship foundation's website. For chemical engineering junior Laura Azouz all the hard work has paid off. “I was excited, but it also made me motivated to try and improve my application for the national portion of it,” Azouz said. Azouz said she has a different perspective than most students because of her growing up across the pond in Cairo, Egypt. Azouz said Rebecca Carlson, one of last year’s scholarship award winners encouraged her to apply. “Without the support I have from all of my professors at MSU and all the opportunities I had here I don’t think I would have been able to apply. All four nominees are a part of the Honors College. Another nominee, physics junior Hananiel Setiawan said his interest in research led him to submit an application “MSU is a major research institution.” Setiawan said.
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MSU police handle cases of stalking, harassment
MSU Police are reporting an incident of stalking which occurred between Jan. 24 at 1:58 p.m. and Jan. 29 at 10:00 p.m. at Owen Hall, MSU Police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
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Sorority Alpha Xi Delta to get chapter house
A few weeks into the fall semester, hundreds of women choose to go through the Panhellenic Council’s formal sorority recruitment and find their metaphorical home. Next fall, one sorority will finally get its actual home at 855 Grove St.
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E.L. residents have mixed feelings about Bailey Community Center renovations
The Capital Area Housing Project cleared its final hurdle early this month when it was awarded low-income housing tax credit by the state, clearing the way for renovations to the Bailey Community Center to become a primarily a senior living center. Now as the CAHP plans to begin building soon, some Bailey neighborhood residents still resent the loss of a one time pillar of the community. SO
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Tips to conserve more water on campus
MSU prides itself on being a green campus, and students can be a large part of this initiative. According to the Residential and Hospitality Services Sustainability Office, the amount of water consumed by residence halls in one year could fill three-and-a-half Spartan Stadiums.
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Fourth teen sentenced in killing of MSU student in 2014
Christopher John Foley, 18, pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to three to 15 years Thursday in the murder case of MSU student Dustyn Frolka.
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MSU professor brings new type of artificial intelligence to world of video games
An MSU professor has developed a revolutionary new type of artificial intelligence (AI), and he's bringing it to the world of video games for its first real-world application. Dr. Arend Hintze, assistant professor for integrative biology and computer science and engineering at MSU, has developed a new form of AI that can adapt and learn over time through a process similar to Darwinian evolution. "All these systems (Watson, Siri) which are these super-great hallmarks of artificial intelligence are really expert systems that have no general purpose intelligence, like a cockroach, for example," Hintze said.
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MSU's attempt to patch broken sexual assault policies draw criticism
Elizabeth’s case, like the two others mishandled in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, report from Sept. 1, 2015, highlights an issue in the way MSU handles sexual assault and harassment cases that the university is working to address through revisions and updates to its sexual assault and relationship violence policy.
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MSU law professor serves as assistant solicitor general
A strong, determined and intelligent woman, Ann Sherman started her successful life and career from simple, humble beginnings.
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Residence hall workout facilities are lacking
Regardless of its name, the weight room of Snyder Hall does not contain any weights or barbells. Other residence hall workout areas have the same issue. The rooms are either lacking in equipment or contain damaged equipment.
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MSU home to one of few university publishing houses
Founded just shy of seventy years ago, the MSU Press publishes 30 to 40 works a year and helps MSU to stand out among american colleges for a variety of reasons.
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City, campus officials urge voter turnout for March 8 primary
Recent state, local and national elections have seen pitiful attendance from millennial, specifically student, voters. Studies have shown a steadily declining number of student voters since the tumult of the 2008 election.
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Residents, students look forward to planned E.L. ice rink
On cold winter mornings, afternoons, evenings, whichever pleased the local East Lansing kids that day, a hodge podge of kids could be found on flooded and frozen fields in local parks. The local gathering holes, the multiple ice skating rinks found in East Lansing, provided a way to make friends, memories and teach lessons. Some speculate East Lansing city officials were responsible for creating the fun while others speculate it was the East Lansing Fire Department. Nonetheless, whoever spawned the slick rinks ultimately halted it too. But now after a long hiatus, an East Lansing ice rink is back, in a new form and coming to Valley Court Park.
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New ELPD chief Jeff Murphy reflects on time in East Lansing
He is a family man with two families. The one he goes home to every night and the ones in uniform. For 29 years Jeff Murphy has called the East Lansing Police Department home, and after 29 years of effort and a multitude of jobs within the department he now leads that second family.
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Former professor named to Botanic Garden Conservation International board of directors
Former MSU professor and doctoral student Dr. Gerard T. Donnelly was named to the Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI) Board of Directors in late December.
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MSU's Formula SAE presents racing car at Detroit auto show
Up and down the floor of the Cobo Center, exotic sports cars hailing from Italy, Germany, and England excite attendees of the North American International Auto Show.
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MSU police report assault, thefts on campus
MSU police are reporting an assault on Jan. 21 at about 8:20 p.m.