Hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funding has been allocated to MSU and East Lansing in the past 90 days. Ingham County is using its portion of the $3.8 billion given to Michigan on road projects, educational improvements and energy efficiency, among other issues.
In addition to possibly approving the 2009-10 fiscal year budget, the East Lansing City Council plans to discuss the future of two century-old houses located on Louis Street at tonight’s meeting.
Sheila Teahan isn’t a structural engineer, but the associate professor of English can surmise that Morrill Hall, the century-old building that houses her office, is on its last leg.
Construction crews are hammering away on projects across campus this summer. University engineer Robert Nestle said road and utilities construction is typically planned for summer because there are fewer people on campus. Inconveniences to students are expected to be minimal this summer, he added.
Eastbound I-94 near US-127 will be closed near Hawkins Road in Jackson County this evening beginning at 9 p.m. and is not expected to reopen until 7 a.m. Wednesday. A detour will be in effect until construction is completed.
MSU police will be on the lookout for unbuckled motorists Wednesday and next week as part of Mid-Michigan’s annual Buckle Up or Pay Up, Click It or Ticket mobilization, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
With a projected $12.5 million in federal funding during the next five years, researchers at MSU will investigate the implications of thermoelectric energy and contribute to a nationwide effort to understand and use sustainable energy.
MSU researchers studying children’s exercise will have new labs this summer in what was once unused locker space. Renovations turned half of the women’s locker room in the basement of IM Sports-Circle into a new workspace and laboratory for the Department of Kinesiology’s Human Energy Research Laboratory, or HERL.
MSU’s future Facility for Rare Isotope Beams might be getting a $2 million funding boost next year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s budget request to Congress. The request is slated to raise the amount allotted to FRIB from $7 million in fiscal year 2009 to $9 million in 2010.
A parked car was hit Thursday and was reported by a 20-year-old Lansing man, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU junior Melissa Rumrill will be tried for drunken driving causing one count of death and two counts of serious injury stemming from an accident that caused the death of MSU junior Joe Barton, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said.
The city of East Lansing plans to approve its $95 million budget for 2009-10 fiscal year during its meeting Tuesday. And despite the downturn of Michigan’s economy, East Lansing Mayor Vic Loomis said the city has managed its budget well.
MSU upgraded ANGEL late last week, enhancing grading and discussion functions, among others. Changes in ANGEL version 7.4 include grading rubrics that enhance student-faculty communication, updated discussion forums that allow more people to engage in a dialogue and an easier tracking system for instructors to monitor course participation, said Katherine Ball, a spokeswoman for the university’s Academic Technology Services.
MSU and one of its employees were found to be not liable for a fatal 2005 traffic accident in which a man was struck and killed by a stolen MSU vehicle that was left unattended, a Michigan Court of Appeals decided May 8.
The smell of barbecue and the sounds of celebration rose from downtown East Lansing as the streets were packed with people and white tents. East Lansing’s 46th annual Art Festival brought artists from across the country to the city. From photography, painting, pottery to piano, the community came out, with an estimated 70,000 in attendance despite the state’s economic slowdown.
Millions of dollars in cuts to the state budget, announced by Gov. Jennifer Granholm earlier this month, will lead to reductions in areas from community health to state police sectors.
On Thursday, Mary Alice Stollak, founding artistic and musical director of the MSU Children’s Choir, directed her choir of 54 children for the last time. The choir members, ranging from 4th grade to high school-aged, wore brightly colored vests, white shirts and blouses and sang to an audience that almost filled the entire first level of Wharton Center.
The first case of swine flu was identified in Ingham County on Friday, Ingham County Medical Examiner Dean Sienko said. “This is not surprising,” he said.
Revenue figures for the state of Michigan are estimated to be half of what they were in the ’90s, state officials said last week. The state treasurer and state fiscal agencies met Friday at the Capitol to reach a consensus on figures for the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years.
Ella Hartman remembers when the state capital was a small town. The 107-year-old Lansing resident moved to the city in 1922 and was one of three honorary grand marshals in Saturday’s Parade of the Decades, celebrating Lansing’s 150th anniversary.