As the peak of flu season approaches, students should take more precautions in the coming weeks, health officials say. Flu infections are expected to peak during the last week of January and the first week of February, said TJ Bucholz, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Community Health. Normally, it is in the middle of January, he said. "We don't really know why," Bucholz said.
The Department of State offices will close for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, and Presidents Day, Feb.
Members of the MSU community have until the end of this month to nominate those who help broaden society's view of diversity. The Excellence in Diversity Recognition and Awards program, or EIDA, created in 1990, promotes and encourages diversity by recognizing people in the MSU community who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and creativity in that area, said Office for Affirmative Action, Compliance and Monitoring Director Paulette Granberry Russell. "It gives us an opportunity to distinguish efforts of those who have supported issues around diversity broadly defined," Granberry Russell said.
The East Lansing City Council tossed around the idea of shortening the time a rental overlay district can remain untouched by new zoning petitions at Tuesday's work session. Questions from residents about changing the "no tamper" duration at the Jan.
Students taking a Catholic theology course at a local church can receive three MSU credits this semester.
The MEAP, for high school students at least, is no more. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a bill Jan.
While senior citizens in Charlotte are making crafts and baked goods, local businesses and places of worship are urging others to donate money - and it's all for the same cause. Area residents and businesses still are contributing to the hundreds of millions of dollars the United States has sent to victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Members of the Islamic Center of Greater Lansing, 920 S.
Alex Gottschalk recently received what his colleagues call one of the most prestigious awards in nuclear medicine.
Medical technology senior Judith Njogu won first place in the second Annual International Student Essay Contest sponsored by MSU's Office for International Students and Scholars. Njogu, of Kenya, will receive the top prize of $1,000. Like many participants, Njogu wrote about her experience in the United States, describing her shock from cultural differences.
For Rep. Leon Drolet, R-Clinton Township, former president Ronald Reagan has important ties to Michigan. Drolet said Reagan's connections include accepting the republican nomination for president at the 1980 Republican National Convention held in Detroit and the Democratic and Republican supporters he had in Macomb County during his terms. "His popularity knew no party," Drolet said.
A vigil at the rock on Farm Lane for an MSU student who died in a car accident during winter break was not as peaceful as was hoped for, participants said. The vigil, held Sunday at 4 p.m.
The East Lansing Public Library will have a children's program from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
In its first victory in a two-year effort to ban race and gender-based preferences in university admissions and government hiring and contracts, The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative submitted a petition of more than 508,000 signatures to state election officials Thursday. MCRI began the petition effort in response to the U.S.
It's been more than two months since the passage of Proposal 2, but Jon Hoadley, chairman for the MSU Stonewall Democrats, said the fight for equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has only just begun. MSU students and representatives from several local and statewide LGBT and allied groups will hold a rally on Wednesday in opposition to the proposal. "Proposal 2 should be interpreted as narrowly as possible," said Hoadley, a social relations senior. Hoadley said the months of opposition to Proposal 2 have been "a difficult battle," but the MSU LGBT campus groups have been meeting regularly to discuss legislative ways to protect their rights. The rally will include speeches from families who are directly affected by the amendment and Rep.
Researchers at MSU have created a compound that could make cancer medication more effective and possibly even cure the disease. "This could potentially mean big things," said Jezte Tepe, the chemistry professor who led the cancer research team.
It's been two years since ASMSU has had a working Web site. But MSU's undergraduate student government changed that on Friday with the launch of a new site. The Web site - www.asmsu.msu.edu - has several links that define various branches under the ASMSU governance.
On Grand River Avenue Monday afternoon, a fleet of metallic soldiers were in the middle of warfare. They glared menacingly across a dark stone canyon at their enemies, who stood ready to obliterate them with laser cannons. But the warriors were only two inches tall and kept under glass as part of a new battle scene diorama at 21st Century Comics & Games, 515 E.
MSU could be one of several colleges to receive a pilot program to help pregnant college students continue their education without having an abortion. The Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act was signed by Gov.