Negotiating the responsibilities of home is something Jennifer Sowa has been working on with her husband lately. With one child, Sowa said the division of housework and child care is constantly being discussed. That’s why the lecture “How do professional couples in corporate America negotiate household and child care duties” caught her eye.
With pounding tribal rhythms blasting, Bryant Rogers and Mercio Goenha stepped to the center of the crowd. As the intensity of the music rose, Goenha and Rogers came alive, engaging each other with flying cartwheel kicks and soaring punches. They moved with such fluidity the match came to resemble a rhythmic dance.
Bailey Park usually is used for soccer practices or baseball training, but once a year, it becomes the place for bocce ball.
Michigan Flyer, a shuttle bus company based in East Lansing, 333 Albert Ave., announced its bus routes to Detroit will now include a stop in Ann Arbor.
A bell-ringing ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Monday at Beaumont Tower to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Forty MSU freshmen raced pop cans down a track Thursday for MSU’s new engineering course geared toward hands-on learning.
MSU just can’t keep those pesky Truman Scholarship Foundation trustees away. With 15 students accepted in the 30-year history of the prestigious award, the university has finally received its due.
In an effort to avoid a state government shutdown, Michigan’s House of Representatives could raise the state’s income tax by as much as .07 percent to improve Michigan’s budget woes.
The investigation into the 2005 murder of a Lansing Community College professor was reopened by the Ingham County prosecutor’s office Tuesday.
Forget sexy. Mike Busley is bringing pie back. “If it weren’t for grandmas, I don’t know that we would know what real pie tastes like,” said Busley, founder of Grand Traverse Pie Company. “Unless grandma makes you one, the pie you’re buying at Meijer or Kroger was probably mass-produced in California and shipped to you on a freezer truck.”
MSU’s College of Business is requesting the university’s Academic Governance to approve a split within the Marketing and Supply Chain Management Department. If approved, the department would become two separate entities.
Premedical junior Wazeur Rahman woke up at 5 a.m. Thursday before his biology exam to cram – not full of facts – but with the breakfast he had cooked himself before the sun rose. He had to begin fasting for Ramadan.
Grand Traverse Pie Company, a bakery caf
Administrators are responding to issues at MSU football games this year with stricter ticket distribution, excess seating and the use of color-coded wristbands.
A routine traffic stop led to a wrecked motorcycle and a foot pursuit from the Main Library to North Kedzie Hall on Tuesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Lansing — The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for “major, mass action” from state officials concerning housing foreclosures when they meet in Lansing in the next few weeks.
Amitesh Devic works, eats and sleeps in Lansing, and even pays taxes to the state that go toward funding for MSU. So he wants to know: Why is he considered an out-of-state student? Devic, who moved to the area in 2004 to live with his girlfriend, Amanda, pays more than $400 in additional tuition fees per credit hour than a student the university considers to be in-state.
City officials are looking forward to turning the Virginia Avenue area into a family-friendly haven, rather than the student-populated block it is now.
Lansing — Changing absentee voting and improving polling areas were key parts of recommendations made Wednesday by Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land before the Senate Campaign and Election Oversight committee.
Biology professor Jonathan Walton began teaching at MSU 20 years ago, but his fascination with science didn’t start there.