In an attempt to be more environmentally-friendly, Ann Arbor is one of the first cities in the nation to ban the selling of water bottles at city-sponsored events – something East Lansing has not yet considered.
While Sunday’s festivities at Shaw Hall may have looked like an elementary school field day — with students tossing water balloons and running three-legged sack races — it was actually the Summer Business Institute (SBI), a weeklong camp meant to help incoming freshman business students get used to college life.
Several local court cases are underway, with pretrials, conferences and jury trials coming up before fall semester begins. The following cases, which involve former MSU officials and visitors, have faced postponements during the summer months but are now in full swing. More court case updates will become available later in the week.
Unless the state government doubles transportation funding, local officials could be forced to look elsewhere for money to maintain roads.
When Colette Evangelista jumped from a plane flying 10,000 feet above the ground on Sunday, she was looking for a sensory overload — something her autistic son deals with every day.
In an effort to reduce crashes at intersections, law enforcement officials in Ingham County are participating in Intersection Enforcement Week.
While a Court of Appeals case at the University of Washington may put a stop to police officers monitoring residence halls. Police at MSU continue to use relationship-building, rather than monitoring approach in the halls.
The construction of a new shooting center on MSU’s campus will bring students looking to compete at archery or marksmanship to MSU, said Chris Glass, former president of the MSU Archery Team.
The Great Lakes region is losing millions of dollars, all because of some unwelcome guests.
Plans to build a facility to accommodate MSU’s rifle and archery teams moved forward Friday at a ground-breaking ceremony at Jolly Road between Hagadorn and College roads.
In football, being in the red zone means you are close to putting more points on the board. In business, being in the red zone means you are over budget, a problem MSU and many other athletic departments around the nation have been running into as universities build higher and pay more to stay among the top programs in the nation.
The MSU Museum is celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday with an exhibit of children’s letters at the Nelson Mandela National Museum in Mthatha, South Africa.
North and southbound traffic will be reduced to one lane on a section of Hagadorn Road today from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to a press release from the Michigan Department of Public Works.
The Michigan Political Leadership Program, or MPLP, a nationally recognized political training ground at MSU, is now accepting applications for the 2009 class of fellows.
When state Rep. Mark Meadows’ father placed the keys to his vehicle in Meadows’ hands and swore never to drive again, Meadows knew he had found a cause worth supporting.
After months of construction, the opening of Abbot Road was celebrated during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was again safe to eat all types of tomatoes Thursday.
Sidney Finkel knew he arrived at 13 years old at Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He knew he had survived the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. But until Finkel obtained his prisoner record from Kenneth Waltzer, an MSU professor of Jewish studies, he didn’t know he had entered the camp in December 1944 or that he had arrived with his brother and father.
MSU received two grants Wednesday totaling $150,000 as part of the Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a consortium of the 15 public universities in the state.
Within the next few weeks, Michigan’s state government workers could have quite a bit of wiggle room in their work schedule, and East Lansing officials are considering similar scheduling changes.