MSU Professor Robert Stein’s research has taken him to a place where no men have gone before.Through a computer-based program, Stein, a professor of physics and astronomy, is able to simulate what happens on the surface of the sun.“I have always been interested in the dynamics of the surface of the sun,” Stein said.
OKEMOS - Eight-year-old Mary Callard played with chemicals, made explosions and fought gravity Saturday.Excitement was apparent in Mary’s eyes as she watched experiments unfold like magic.
Love was in the air as 370 Lansing-area residents celebrated World Marriage Day on Saturday.Couples reaffirm their commitment to their marriages during the day, which is traditionally celebrated close to Valentine’s Day and in several countries around the world.The celebration sheds an optimistic light on marriage, said Rick Peiffer, a technologist for MSU’s Vincent Voice Library who helped plan this year’s event.“It’s a day set aside to celebrate the sacrament of marriage,” said Peiffer, who will celebrate 20 years with his wife Diane in May.
The state Legislature would approve salary increases if a Senate joint resolution becomes an amendment to the Michigan Constitution. Senate Government Operations unanimously passed the proposal Thursday.
LANSING - Students at Lansing Community College honored the first days of Black History Month and previewed upcoming February events with a kickoff celebration Friday. The unity celebration, titled “Black History Is All Of Us,” included performances by students, the unveiling of the Black History Month poster and a traveling display of works produced by black inventors. Stanley Chase, assistant dean of student and academic support and director of student relations at LCC, said the event was just a sample of what Black History Month activities are to come.
An upcoming competition will give MSU women a chance to speak to thousands of their peers as part of a day of female recognition. MSU’s Women’s Council will be sponsoring a poetry contest as part of their plans to celebrate the 81st International Women’s Day. MSU will celebrate the day on campus eight days later than most of the world.
The war has subsided. David Brooks, a renowned political journalist, told students and faculty that the culture wars have calmed in the United States at a lecture on Wednesday in the Kellogg Center Auditorium. Brooks, the first speaker in the LeFrak Forum and the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, addressed audience members about cultural and political change in his speech, “Are the Culture Wars Over?” “The message is that we used to have a very polarized culture and that we used to have real hostility in our politics,” Brooks said.
LANSING - Roughly 30 city leaders met Thursday afternoon to begin developing plans to pass a multimillion dollar Lansing Public School District bond proposal.The leaders - ranging from Pastor Melvin Jones of the Union Missionary Baptist Church to Mayor David Hollister - form the Lansing School Bond Committee, which convened at the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, 300 E.
Straight out of the political battle line in the nation’s capital, Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley are headed to address members of an MSU program.
Jim Keady’s philosophy is if you can’t beat them, join them - or at least check out what the opposition is doing.That’s exactly what the former St.
In an effort to gain funding for several student programs this year, ASMSU is asking the city of East Lansing to provide some financial assistance.The university’s undergraduate student government made the request by applying for Community Development Block Grant funds distributed by the city government each year.The grants are annually disbursed by the U.S.
Growing up together in Farmington Hills, Shelby Berger, Blake Boesky and Evan Feldman never dreamed they would be selling hot dogs to bar hoppers at 2 a.m.But the three college hotdoggers are doing just that with their business, Weenies, which sells hot dogs from a cart on the corner of M.A.C.
To Steve Springer, asthma is a potentially deadly disease that people need to be more aware of. But for people who are educated and correctly follow a treatment plan, it’s manageable, said Springer, executive director of the American Lung Association, 403 Seymour St.
LANSING - Some Michigan lawmakers are counting on legislation that will reform voting in the state by making it easier, more assessable and accurate.State Sen.
The greek system’s spring recruitment is finished, leaving leaders waiting for an official count of new members.The official recruitment period, which was last week for both sororities and fraternities, consisted mainly of chapter open houses.
An East Lansing chiropractor’s license has been suspended because of an inappropriate relationship with a patient, according to the state Department of Consumer and Industry Services.Fernando Ponce, who practices at Caring Through Chiropractic, 411 W.
A proposed state Legislature bill that would require a more elaborate process in the purchasing of a beer keg is leaving some ASMSU representatives feeling bitter. The ASMSU Student Assembly will be voting on a measure tonight stating the undergraduate student government’s formal objection against the Michigan House’s measure. “If anything does come up, we’ll go to Lansing and lobby against it,” said Mark Pritzlaff, ASMSU director of legislative affairs. Under the bill, liquor retailers would have to attach an identification tag on the keg of beer with information from the buyer’s driver’s license.
One of the top chemists in the nation, MSU Professor Emeritus James Dye has been awarded the prestigious Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Senior Scientist Mentor Initiative for 2001. The Dreyfus Foundation Initiative was awarded on the basis of “commitment to close advising and mentoring of undergraduate research participants,” according to the foundation’s award letter. The foundation will grant Dye $20,000 to work with and mentor undergraduate students throughout the next two years. “What I aim to do is continue some research that has not yet been published,” Dye said.