At Tuesday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting, members recommended to waive the search process for the vice president for student affairs and advise MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to promote Denise Maybank from interim vice president to permanent vice president of student affairs.
Making MSU a more welcoming place for international students is something Peter Briggs, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, or OISS, strives for every day. With assistance from the MSU community, Briggs recognized those who share that goal by thanking them with Globie Awards.
It was an unusual gathering over the river — students, administrators, faculty and fishermen from the community assembled around a brightly painted truck on a bridge spanning the Red Cedar River.
MSU had its most successful performance in the 2013 Recyclemania competition, going against universities across the country to improve recycling on campus. MSU continued its improving trend, placing either first or second in the Big Ten in all of the events they participated in, MSU Waste Reduction Coordinator Dave Smith said. Recyclemania is a nationwide event that competes with more than 500 colleges in multiple recycling competitions.
Rehabilitation counseling graduate student Piotr Pasik is a dedicated soccer player.
Public hearings on East Lansing’s budget, a proposed apartment complex and the taxi driver “good moral character” definition might be hot topics for discussion at Tuesday night’s city council meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Using crash data from the Office of Highway Planning and Safety, the University of Michigan study estimates 26 deaths and 49 critical injuries would not have occurred in 2011 if Michigan residents still were required by law to wear helmets while riding a motorcycle.
Campus was swarming with children last weekend as they learned about science, from water bugs swimming in small tanks to germinating seeds they could bring home to plant.
Leo Kempel is one of the main reasons graduate student Benjamin Crowgey is pursuing electrical engineering.
Two explosions have occurred at the Boston Marathon finish line, with news outlets reporting numerous injuries.
More than 150 years after U.S. Congressman Justin S. Morrill pioneered the establishment of MSU as a land-grant institution within the Morrill Act, and with the looming demolition of MSU’s 103-year-old Morrill Hall, the MSU Board of Trustees voted to keep the Morrill’s history apparent on campus.
Although alumna Libby DuBay has lived in Los Angeles since graduating in 1985, she remains an active member of the Spartan family.
At Friday morning’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees approved policy adaptations and construction projects, including a 3.9 percent room and board rate increase and the construction of a Bio Engineering Facility on campus.
Although snow, sleet and every other type of precipitation was pouring down on the streets of East Lansing, that didn’t stop people from coming out to the city’s second-annual Girls’ Day Out event Saturday downtown.
“Peace, social justice, and unity should not stop after one year,” said Lauren Moore, president of Successful Black Women of MSU, or SBWMSU. “This is an opportunity for all people to build knowledge and make connections.”
Using GoSoapBox software, students can indicate when they are confused by the lecture material, instructors can administer quizzes and polls, and the class can provide anonymous feedback to teacher questions.
If the White House has anything to say about it, students soon can look forward to a little extra help when it comes to managing the cost of a college education.
With warmer weather on the way, many organizations have been rolling out the finish line ribbons to host 5K charity events, including the Senior Class Council.
Despite a mixture of snow, hail and rain, runners and volunteers came out in force to support MSU Safe Place on Sunday afternoon at the 19th-annual Race for the Place 5K.
On stage, two men crashed their way through an improvised scene. They were basing the performance on cues written by the audience. Every thirty seconds, the men would pause, read off one of the cues, and the performance would veer in a wildly new direction. The setting: a clock tower. The plot: a fear of worms. And then the revelations: “You’re adopted!” “You’re also adopted!” The scene concluded with the actors embracing and the audience enthusiastically applauding.