Local governments across the state will be receiving $195,996 in Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant awards, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Monday.
The Forage Technology Conference scheduled for 10 a.m. March 11 at Kellogg Center is part of Agriculture and Natural Resources Week.
The Center for Gender in Global Context at MSU will host its spring colloquial series, New Research on Women and Gender: Global and Local Perspectives, at 1:30 p.m. March 19 in Room 302 of the International Center.
The East Lansing Public Library will be holding Second Sunday @ Dublin Square from 4-9 p.m. March 14 at Dublin Square, 327 Abbot Road.
Curtis Stokes, dean of James Madison College, will lead a lecture and discussion Wednesday titled Race and Human Rights at 6 p.m. in Club Spartan on the third floor of Case Hall.
MSU and Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital are teaming up to help relief efforts in Haiti by sending representatives to the country on Wednesday. Together, they are sending five people to Haiti to assess what aid MSU and Sparrow can offer the disaster relief in Haiti.
Legislation passed unanimously 37-0 in the state Senate on Tuesday could make voting while overseas less “daunting” for Michigan residents.
State Rep. Joan Bauer, D-Lansing, who chairs the House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, is holding a student hearing Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Kathryn Darnell, an East Lansing resident, teaches calligraphy classes through the Department of Extension and Community Education at Lansing Community College, 422 N. Washington Square, in Lansing.
WKAR will host a discussion on jobs and work-related issues in Mid-Michigan from 1-3 p.m. March 18 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
MSU professors Robert Hausinger and Denis Proshlyakov developed a new method of slowing down enzymes and analyzed the steps in the reaction process of the bacterial enzyme Taurine/alpha-ketoglutarate dioxygenase, or TauD. This discovery could help researchers develop new medicines or help clean the environment, Proshlyakov said.
The East Lansing City Council likely will approve budget amendments that will reduce more than $1.9 million for the 2009-10 fiscal year during its 7:30 p.m.
MSU will be home to a new social media research and development center after university officials announced Monday a partnership with a networking enterprise company. The university is partnering with INgage Networks of Naples, Fla., a company that helps businesses and government entities use networking and social media to solve various problems.
Brad Lichota, a biochemistry sophomore, will present the Boy Scouts of America, or BSA, Report to the Nation to Congress on Wednesday as a part of an eight-person delegation to Washington, D.C.
Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford, who announced Sunday he will seek the Democratic nod for governor, made a stop in Lansing on Monday to discuss his candidacy.
On Sunday, the McDonel Hall Black Caucus ended Black History Month by performing a play celebrating the achievements of historical black figures.
ASMSU officials unveiled plans at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting to bring former late-night host Conan O’Brien to Breslin Center. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. Organization officials put in a $150,000 bid to entice O’Brien to perform a one-night only concert on campus.
Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, added his name to a growing list of Democratic gubernatorial candidates Sunday.
MSU Senior Class Council’s Annual Etiquette Dinner on Sunday at Kellogg Center aimed to give MSU students the opportunity to learn proper etiquette for interviews, dining and other business situations during a three-course meal.
Students in MSU’s Master of Science in Accounting program partnered with the Special Olympics of Michigan to host the organization’s annual basketball tournament Friday. More than 1,400 athletes, parents and student volunteers came to IM Sports-West for the all-day basketball tournament.