MSU’s College of Human Medicine has launched the Rural Community Health Program, a new program to draw more aspiring doctors to rural communities. MSU is partnering with Charlevoix Area Hospital, McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey and the Alpena Regional Medical Center.
It was Christmas Eve in 2005. Kent Love, the communications director for the MSU College of Law, had spent the evening unwrapping gifts with Diego Ramirez, his partner of five years. But unbeknownst to Ramirez, his last gift from Kent would hold a meaning he’d never forget.
Students and faculty members will celebrate another milestone for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community — a new LGBTQ and sexual studies specialization implemented at the beginning of this semester.
Breslin Center was packed Thursday, but not for an MSU basketball game. The MSU Study Abroad Fair took place at the center Thursday and featured 191 booths highlighting various trips and courses available through the nation’s number-one ranked study abroad program.
ASMSU’s Policy Commitee passed a bill that would allow the undergraduate student government to advocate against arson in the East Lansing and MSU community. The bill said the East Lansing Police Department has been getting a high rate of reports on arson in the East Lansing area over the last two years.
It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. For cousins Adam Land and Kameron Best, their so-called “dirty job” become a new family affair in a lifelong relationship. The cousins work in tunnels across campus and with other electrical systems that will power MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
“Space. Definitely the space,” three MSU freshman girls said in unison when asked what’s most challenging about transitional housing. Education freshman Kendall Clary, psychology freshman Shelby Krist and criminal justice freshman Elise Plancon live in one of the remaining 181 transitional housing rooms across campus, affecting 545 students.
The early descent into a busy day is something that many college students have come to know by heart, but the burden of balancing school and work has continued to grow.
The East Lansing Planning Commission deferred voting on a proposal to cap the number of bars downtown past for the second time Wednesday night, pending a report from the Downtown Development Authority.
For neuroscience sophomore Grace Kamau, the terrorist attacks in Kenya last Saturday, were too close for comfort.
The process of transforming the current East Lansing Amtrak Station into the CATA Multimodal Station can move forward now that the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, obtained a grant originally announced in July 2012.
MSU experienced a brief period of network downtime Wednesday afternoon because of what Information Technology Services staff are calling a main switch failure in the university’s network infrastructure.
Students packed the halls of the MSU Union on Wednesday and waited hours to gain their plot of land on Munn Field for the annual Izzone Campout this Friday. Abnormally high turnout for the registration event led officials to believe the Izzone Campout could be its most crowded in years. Each year, the Association of Future Alumni, or AFA, hosts a campout for all students who bought season tickets to the men’s basketball games, offering games, giveaways and food at the event. Registration for the campout started at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and Matt Martin, director of Izzone at AFA, said the crowd remained strong throughout the day.
MSU’s annual Study Abroad Fair will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday at Breslin Center. Each year, the fair, sponsored by the MSU Office of Study Abroad, provides students with the opportunity to explore the programs the university has to offer for that year.
In a galaxy not too far away, a record recently was broken — the densest galaxy known to man was discovered by an MSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy with the help of a team of astronomers.
Michigan jobless rates are up for the third month in a row, creeping to nine percent unemployment. The state was dubbed the nation’s fourth-most unemployed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But getting a college degree still seems to be the best pathway to a high-paying career.
MSU research shows that bullying and harassment over the Internet or by text message can have as much impact on a student’s well-being as physical abuse. One study published earlier this year by MSU criminologist Thomas Holt showed students bullied online or by cell phone are just as likely to skip school or contemplate suicide as those who are physically bullied.
The man accused of committing four sexual assaults in East Lansing this summer made his first court appearance Tuesday and soon will face testimony from all four of his alleged victims. Police believe Wilder, 26, initiated four sexual attacks near MSU’s campus between March 30 and May 16.
New drone technology at MSU will prove useful for farmers and journalists alike. Associate professor of geological sciences Bruno Basso will be conducting a three-to-four year experiment using a drone to monitor crop fields, advancing MSU’s roots as an agricultural school with modern-day innovations.
In the last five years alone, international student enrollment at MSU has skyrocketed by 82.9 percent.