The MSU Museum will gain a new leader come this July. Sociocultural and cultural anthropologist Mark Auslander will become MSU Museum’s new director and an associate professor of history and anthropology at MSU. His mission? Get more members of the MSU community to engage in the museum and explore new ideas.
United States District Judge Janet T. Neff has issued a temporary restraining order to allow alleged victims of ex-MSU employee Larry Nassar to publicly discuss the case.
He has stores everywhere from Dallas to Dubai, but MSU alumnus Jeff Sinelli is thinking back to his roots for his next location. Sinelli, Founder and CEO of the Dallas-based Which Wich Superior Sandwiches restaurant chain, will receive a 2017 Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Communication Arts and Sciences Alumni Board today. “It’s always nice to be recognized in any form, so I’m pretty stoked about it,” Sinelli said.
The ninth annual Muslim Mental Health Conference will be held at the East Lansing Marriott Hotel from Apr.
The building at 547 and 549 E Grand River Ave, home to the Greater Lansing Visitor Center, apartment space and until recently Sweet Lorraine’s Fabulous Mac n’ Cheez!, has seen businesses come and go for decades, landlord Steve Perry said. Perry, a manager with Perry Investment Group, LLC, said his family has owned the building since it was built in 1946.
The Red Cedar River flooded throughout campus. Chestnut Road between Demonstration Hall Road and Red Cedar Road has been closed because of flooding, along with Lot 62W.
Political science junior Aaron Stephens announced that he is running for East Lansing City Council on Friday.
ASMSU’s Finance Committee recently voted down a bill that would have established grants for survivors of sexual assault at MSU.
Since March 31, MSU police have recorded 29 crimes in the Clery Crime and Fire Log, ranging from larceny to vehicle theft to illegal use of a credit card.
MSU police and the Canadian Railroad Police responded to a 66-year-old woman trapped under a train at the Amtrak station near Harrison Rd.
For the second year in a row, MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine has secured the top spot in the Big Ten for its veterinary program, according to recent rankings from Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education data provider. The College of Veterinary Medicine holds the fifth spot nationally and the twelfth spot internationally for the program.
Ingham County Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina issued a gag order last week to bar both parties in former MSU employee Laray Nassar’s alleged sexual assault case. Now more than 80 alleged Nassar victims and their attorneys are suing the judge claiming Nassar’s attorneys are “trampling (the plaintiffs’) First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and expression.”
This June will be the 30th anniversary of the closing of East Lansing’s last movie theater, the Campus Theatre, whose lobby once sat at the Grand River Ave.
The East Lansing Police Department will host their first open house on Thursday at 409 Park Ln.
On Jan. 30, an alleged criminal sexual conduct incident was reported to MSU police. The alleged criminal sexual conduct occurred on Dec. 16, 2016, at 1855 Place, according to the Clery Crime and Fire Log. The case is currently listed as active.
MSU's Office of Study Abroad officially changed its name — the office will now be known as the Office for Education Abroad. The name change is part of the office's effort to display the diversity in the available program options.
Kesha and the Creepies and Lil Uzi Vert are coming to MSU's campus for the spring concert put on by the Spartan Council.
James Seaton, a professor in the English department, died Thursday at the age of 72 after battling cancer. Seaton joined MSU's Humanities Department in 1971 and was a professor in the Department of English from 1980 until his passing.
An alleged criminal sexual conduct was reported to the East Lansing police on March 29 at about 10:30 p.m. at 541 E. Grand River Ave., East Lansing Police Department Lt. Steve Gonzalez said.
More than 80 alleged Nassar victims and their lawyers are suing Ingham County Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina after she issued a gag order to bar parties from talking publicly about material not already in the court record.