An MSU student charged with hacking into a Harrisburg, Pa., company's Internet server and downloading copyrighted material filed a guilty plea for computer intrusion with a federal court on June 21, according to a prosecuting attorney. A trial for Brandon Yuille was scheduled for Monday, but because of the previously filed plea, Yuille now awaits a sentencing date, First Assistant U.S.
The Moonlight Film Festival will feature a live musical performance by Jack Kohler and an outdoor movie at 9:30 p.m.
The former location of The Dog Pit restaurant will finish its transformation into The Green River Cafe to open for business before September, owners said.
Unlike other states across the nation, Michigan's tourism industry has not seen the type of growth it would like to see. But Travel Michigan, a group that helps plan statewide travel, and the MSU Tourism Center have formed a council to make a strategic plan to help the tourism industry in the future. Michigan ranks about 13th nationally in the tourism industry, said Don Holecek, the tourism center's director and the team leader of the plan.
The annual Great Lakes Folk Festival is seeking volunteers for the event, which takes place Aug. 11 through 13 in downtown East Lansing.
The MSU College of Human Medicine will be revealing its new dermatology division today after receiving a $5 million donation from an MSU graduate. Nicholas V.
The East Lansing Planning Commission will meet at 7 p.m. tonight at City Hall, 410 Abbott Road, to discuss the Stonehouse Village project. The project calls for the demolition of the building that houses Cottage Inn Pizza, 615 E.
Several children surrounded Danita Brandt as she pointed to the details of a freshly found fossil at the MSU Museum's Fossil Camp on Tuesday. "A lot of people confuse paleontology and archeology, but the kids have it straight," said Brandt, a professor of geology at MSU who teaches the camp.
The more biological older brothers that a man has, the more likely he may be gay, according to a recent study performed at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. The study was conducted by Anthony Bogaert, a professor of community health sciences and psychology at Brock University, and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on June 28.
To some a spider isn't just a creepy insect, but a helpful and invited guest in gardens or crops. A new pocket guide created by MSU's Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, is meant to help people identify insects, like spiders, that could be beneficial or harmful to their plants. Mary Gardiner, an MSU entomology graduate student, decided to create the guide, "Identifying Natural Enemies in Field Crops," about six months ago. Doug Landis, a professor of entomology and Gardiner's adviser, said the guide was never planned, but was conceived coincidentally. "The project was originally intended to focus on soybean aphids," Landis said.
For one Sunoco cashier, Thursday's most notable differences were the amount of drivers coming off the Okemos Road exit and their exasperated attitudes. "It was horrible," Carrie Parks said. "Everyone was just mad because they had to get off the highway and go a totally different way." Three accidents forced police to close a portion of Interstate 96 Thursday night. One driver, who collided with an empty "cement" semitrailer tanker truck in the third accident, was critically injured and was considered alive Friday afternoon, according to Ingham County Sheriff Detective Sgt.
The MSU Board of Trustees meeting planned for July 11 is rescheduled for July 17. The Trustee Finance Committee will meet at 2 p.m.
The crowd packed into Crossroads Food Court in MSU's International Center didn't just observe a heated match Sunday — it became part of a World Cup final experience.
Future congestion of highway traffic could be a problem by the year 2026 for the state of Michigan, a research group in Washington, D.C.
The East Lansing City Council will not meet this week. It will resume next week at 7:30 p.m. on July 18 in City Hall, 410 Abbott Road.
An academic, an activist, a role model and now a Point Scholarship recipient — Lauren Beach has accomplished many things during her time at MSU, and she said she is by no means close to finished in the pursuit of her goals. Beach, a social relations and microbiology senior, was surprised she won the prestigious scholarship for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, students. "It was like a big fluke," she said.