A new report by the MSU Site for Information and Telecommunication Experimentation, or M-SITE, has recently found communities in northern Michigan without broadband service suffer because of it.
Statewide gas prices were three cents below the record high for regular unleaded fuel Monday, according to the AAA of Michigan.
Lovingly, a few students wiped dew drops off their self-made formula racing car Monday, following a heavy rainfall - allowing the green gleam of the car's fresh paint to shine all the brighter. Starting Wednesday, the student-built race car will compete in the Society of Automotive Engineering International Competition at the Pontiac Silverdome. Last year, MSU placed third overall. After dedicating a full year to creating, building and designing the car, the MSU Formula SAE team is optimistic about racing its newly designed car against those from schools in 139 countries. "It's the best car we've had yet," said Nick Periat, an engineering arts senior at MSU and the project's chief engineer.
The first Michigan Tourism Investment Forum will be held May 26-27 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn.
Racial, ethnic and economic minority students will not be disappearing from MSU lecture halls and dorm rooms this fall if the College Access and Opportunity Act passes. The bill, which recently was proposed in the U.S.
Two men charged with the murder of Joseph Lavon Parker outside an East Lansing 7-Eleven will next stand trial at the 30th Judicial Circuit Court. Eric Charles Gordy and Hatarie Deamont McCorkle, both of Detroit, will also stand trial for eluding police following Judge Richard D.
When students go to print their syllabus off of A New Global Environment for Learning, or ANGEL, they will see a very different program from the soon to be retired Blackboard system.
MSU researchers from the colleges of food safety, packaging and supply chain management are working to develop ways to protect the nation's food supply from any kind of contamination or terrorist attacks.
MSU Extension Manure Management Team is sponsoring a two-day seminar from 9-4 p.m. May 25-26 at the DeWitt Banquet and Conference Center in DeWitt to discuss agricultural operations and how they impact the quality of air. Speakers include faculty from MSU and the University of Minnesota.
The Library of Michigan and MSU Libraries are working together to enhance both collections, by creating one combined card catalogue, which will help the former save more than $165,000 in costs throughout the next five years.
The 40th Annual MSU Spring Arts and Crafts show will be held from 9-6 p.m. Saturday and 10-5 p.m. Sunday at the corner of Grand River Avenue and Abbott Road.
The Loaves and Fishes Ministries will be holding its 4th Annual Prayer Walk for the Homeless on May 25 to raise public awareness of the downtrodden.
What only appears in eastern North America every 17 years is about to appear in parts of Michigan this month, but the one place you won't see this rare phenomenon in is Lansing. Scientifically titled as the Magicicada Septendecim, and classified as Brood IX, cicadas bugs are due to rise out of ground in swarms after living there for the past 17 years. "This is a phenomenon that doesn't occur anywhere else in the world," said Dr. Thomas Moore, a University of Michigan expert on cicadas. The cicadas have the longest adult-to-adult life cycle of any known animal.
Three polished stainless steel legs stand independent from each other at the base. As the viewer looks up, the legs bend toward one another to meet almost 20 feet in the air.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety spent its first week of vacation slightly different from the students and faculty who went home to relax. DPPS officers and staff members began a two-part program that simulated a biological disaster at Erickson Hall, and the unannounced training was followed by fire drills across campus the rest of the week.
The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would allow gambling machines to expand to Michigan's horse racetracks. The bill passed by a vote of 20-18 and now returns to the House.
More than 150 graduate employees, undergraduates, and faculty members marched across the campus Thursday beating buckets like drums and carrying picket signs to gain attention from university officials about teaching assistant cuts. The march was organized by the Graduate Employees Union in response to at least 50 TAs who had received notice that they might not have positions in the fall because of the university's financial woes.
For Nicole Tompkins, knocking on neighbors' doors comes with the job. As a neighborhood resource coordinator, Tompkins works to bring permanent East Lansing residents and students closer in the Oakwood and Bailey neighborhoods, located north of Grand River Avenue. Along with nine other coordinators, the interdisciplinary studies in social science and community relations senior is organizing the first East Lansing Field Day & Barbecue to take place from 3 to 5 p.m.