The lead dwindled from 17, to 10, to four, until the MSU men’s basketball team found themselves in familiar territory — another tightly contested game at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center.
When MSU Cyclotron director Konrad Gelbke was told the university had been selected to be the home of the federally funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, he was speechless.
Concerns over animal cruelty led MSU administrators to disallow the Royal Hanneford Circus to bring animal entertainers to Breslin Center for the first time in 16 years.
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on race relations in America at 5 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center. Jennifer White, chairwoman of the Bobby Seale planning committee, worked to get Seale to speak at MSU because of his role in the civil rights movement.
A new East Lansing-based company, Campus Street Sportswear, has purchased two former Steve & Barry’s locations — one of them in East Lansing — and plans to open retail businesses in the near future.
The MSU Children’s Choir will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, or DSO, this weekend for the first time since 2006. Being selected to perform with the DSO is an honor and a challenge in itself, but the Children’s Choir also will have to learn a new language to perform.
The Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, looked into getting free textbooks for a few students and making revisions into oversight of its financial operations during a meeting Tuesday.
If the top floors of some residence halls were to go ablaze, the East Lansing Fire Department doesn’t have a ladder truck able to reach them. That will soon change, as the department learned earlier this month it had been awarded a $531,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. The department will use the money to buy a 100-foot aerial ladder truck.
East Lansing City Council members took a first step in bringing industrial growth to the city by setting a Jan. 20 hearing date for the creation of an Industrial Development District at Tuesday’s council meeting. The district would designate facilities at unspecified locations for future tax incentives in an effort to lure industries to the city.
Theirs was a love story that could rival Romeo and Juliet. He was a boy trapped in a Holocaust concentration camp. She was a young Jewish girl in hiding who threw him apples over a fence. Years after the boy was liberated and the war ended, a chance blind date in New York City brought them together. They would marry months later.
As part a new partnership between IBM and MSU, students and graduates won’t have to look farther than south campus to find a job. A new computer programming center scheduled to begin operations on campus this spring is expected to create 1,500 new jobs during the next five years. The center is the first of its kind in the U.S. and will work in conjunction with MSU’s recruiting, education and research, IBM and MSU officials said.
A new college tuition funding plan enacted Tuesday could make secondary education significantly more affordable for Michigan students from low-income areas. Legislation signed into law by Gov. Jennifer Granholm will allow up to 10 communities to create “Promise Zones,” where funds can be collected from private donors and state education tax breaks to pay for graduating students’ college tuition.
Two familiar faces will continue to hold leadership positions on the MSU Board of Trustees, after members of the board elected Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster to serve their second consecutive terms as chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively.
In a world of pizza places using premade crusts and frozen ingredients, one newcomer to East Lansing is turning to freshness to set itself apart. Marco’s Pizza, 3498 Lake Lansing Road, prides itself on quality ingredients.
During the holiday season, evergreens symbolized joy and the spirit of giving, but now, in East Lansing, they symbolize wood chips. Sanitation workers spent the past two Mondays collecting Christmas trees from curbs and chipping them to mulch in an effort to recycle and ease landscaping costs. The mulch from the discarded trees will be spread in local parks this summer.
Research institutes and upgrades to the ANGEL system were a couple of the issues discussed at the first Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting of the new year. ECAC endorsed the creation of the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research as well as the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The first of the two will work with cyber-enabled discovery, which is using computers for research.
The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is seven days away, and MSU students — along with millions of others from across the nation — are planning trips to Washington, D.C., to witness the event. Below is a list of items students should keep in mind if they’re heading to the nation’s capital.
As the search for missing MSU horticulture student Krista Lueth enters a third month, friends and family are awaiting closure to a painful process. Roy Lueth, Krista Lueth’s father, said Monday he’s hoping the $5,000 in reward money he has offered for information will help lead to her discovery, whether she is found alive or dead.
The moment international relations sophomore Brad Parker learned President-elect Barack Obama won, he knew he and his friends would be in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration Jan. 20.
Service organizations such as Teach For America and the Peace Corps are seeing increased interest among MSU students as the job market declines.