The city of East Lansing has been named a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation for the 22nd year. The recognition is given to cities that have a continual commitment to community forestry.
Stone Temple Pilots are among the three new acts added to the lineup for the 10th Annual Common Ground Music Festival, slated to be held July 6-12. Los Lonely Boys and Billy Squier also were announced as performers at the festival, which will be held at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing.
Lengthy lines and scrambling students could potentially disappear from bookstores at the beginning of a new semester as a result of federal legislation. The legislation requires universities to make lists of course materials available to students by the opening of the enrollment process.
They varied in size, color and style, but the 300 shirts that hung from clotheslines Tuesday in the Union were all interwoven with a common theme: empowerment for the women who decorated them, survivors of sexual violence.
To help boost their Rhino Expansion Project, the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, invited a special friend for support. America’s best-known zookeeper, Jack Hanna, and some of his animal friends visited the zoo Tuesday evening to chat, bark and growl about animal education and black rhinoceros conservation.
Green buildings and the city’s proposed 2009-10 fiscal year budget are on the agenda for tonight’s East Lansing City Council meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Courtroom 2 of 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
The distance from Detroit to Chicago might not seem so far if plans for a high-speed railway linking Midwest cities are approved.
The Old Town Scrapfest this summer might be the perfect opportunity for hungry artists to express their creativity.
In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, members of Alpha Epsilon Pi will lead a “Walk to Remember” and candle-lighting ceremony today.
Nine MSU faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students have been chosen for a committee to review the job performance of the Chicano/Latino Studies program director during the next two months.
One MSU professor’s 30-year project is yielding results that could treat a disease affecting entire regions of the world.
Through acts like sharing personal poetry or singing Grateful Dead songs on acoustic guitar, the women who gathered Thursday evening at the LookOut! Gallery in Snyder-Phillips Hall were there to heal together.
The ramp and bridge from southbound US-127 to eastbound I-96 will be demolished Friday to begin a project to rebuild the structure this summer. Work on the bridge will be done with one lane of traffic maintained at all times on the two-lane roadway.
Parts of a four-block stretch of East Kalamazoo Street in Lansing will be closed for two weeks beginning today to replace lead service lines in the Lansing water system.
The theft of a treasured attraction in the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden has fueled fresh concerns about the security of university and personal property on and off campus.
When he’s not on stage, he leads a relatively quiet life with little fanfare. But to the 1,200 people who packed the Crossroads Food Court in the International Center on Friday night, he is Hershae Chocolatae.
A 21-year-old male student reported a Pirelli tire stolen from his vehicle and replaced with a deflated Firestone tire, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
When 2006 MSU graduate Alicia Bowerman moved to New York City three years ago, she had no job prospects but had plenty of MSU contacts. “It’s a small world, even though it’s New York City,” Bowerman said, laughing. “I mean, I run into people I went to basketball games with my freshman year.”
Students and community members gathered Thursday to commemorate the artwork of Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, which adorns the courtyard outside of Snyder-Phillips Hall as well as inside the Kresge Art Museum.
Students with green-and-white picket signs gathered Thursday at the Administration Building asking passers-by to sign a petition that seeks to cap tuition costs. A Facebook group called the Michigan State University Transparency and Accountability Initiative organized the protest, but representatives from the MSU Young Democratic Socialists also were present, among others.