After injuring her knee and paying the hospital bills on her own, journalism senior Maryhelen Harper knows how helpful a health care plan can be.
A federal stimulus bill requirement that Michigan must use federal stimulus funding to replace cuts to education could erase the incentive for MSU to comply with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed tuition freeze.
Simply having a pregnancy test in their possession leads many women to test more often, which leads to healthier babies, according to research done by an MSU professor.
MSU freshmen, whether they know it or not, are part of the university’s cutting-edge technology. Upon enrollment, first-year students were issued a new form of ID card that allows the university to store larger amounts of data than previous cards. Although other students still have old ID cards, all faculty and staff will transition to the new card this semester.
You wanna be on top? At the MSU’s Next Top Model competition, sponsored by Purpose Organization, 10 girls were put to the test to see if they have what it takes to be a serious model.
A top ranking student government position is in limbo after ASMSU’s Academic Assembly chairperson stepped down Tuesday evening. The resignation came a week after his performance was called into question.
MSU students and faculty will have company when they move into the College of Human Medicine’s Grand Rapids campus in 2010. At last Friday’s meeting, the MSU Board of Trustees approved a 10-year lease to Ferris State University’s College of Pharmacy, giving Ferris’ program access to the Secchia Center’s seventh floor.
MSU chemical engineering professor Dennis Miller spends his days researching a seed 1/16th of an inch in diameter. The canola seed, which can be used to produce biodiesel, could be one answer to achieving energy independence, he said.
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, two venerable titans of American industry, will burn through $17.4 billion in government loans in three months and want billions more to stay alive.
The 26th annual Pow-Wow of Love will be Saturday and Sunday at Jenison Field House.
A patient in a German hospital shows no rebound of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Former MSU football player Craig Johnson was sentenced Tuesday to more than six years in prison for robbing two banks in December 2007 and January 2008, a federal court clerk said.
Imagine a world where a plant could be engineered for a specific job. It might sound like a scenario out of a science fiction novel, but biochemistry and molecular biology professor Robert Last is working on just that.
About 10,000 college students from around the nation, including about 70 from MSU, will travel to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27 to engage in Power Shift ’09 — a youth conference to influence Congress and the Obama administration to enact legislation to combat global warming.
The deadline for entries into a recycled art exhibit for Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s Greater Lansing Go Green! Initiative has been extended until Friday.
A week after his job performance came into question, Christopher Kulesza resigned from chairperson of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday night. Kulesza planned to become the Director of University Budgets, but the assembly did not confirm him to that position.
The man charged with assaulting a female student on campus in early October was found guilty on Tuesday of felony assault and attempted false imprisonment. Jason Evans, of Mason, who was 25 at the time of the crime, was found guilty of attacking a 19-year-old female student on Oct.
To better define what types of conduct during a riot will result in prosecution, the East Lansing City Council set public hearing dates for March 3 and March 17 for the creation of a new ordinance. The ordinance specifies that citizens must clear the streets and not re-enter when police deem an event an unlawful assembly.
A 22-year-old female student reported a textbook stolen while she worked out Friday at Jenison Field House, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The intersection where an MSU visiting scholar was killed in a vehicle-pedestrian accident Sunday will be considered for safety upgrades after police complete an investigation. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said police continue to investigate what caused the accident that killed Tao Li, 44, who had arrived from China earlier Sunday.