The three-day conference of the sixth annual World Stem Cell Summit concludes today in Detroit. The summit brought together educators, doctors and presentations to collaborate on the issue.
After 25 years of service in the East Lasing Police Department, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert will leave the ELPD at the end of this month. This morning, Wibert received an offer from the police department in New Braunfels, Texas for the job as Chief of Police.
Monday was the beginning of Fire Prevention Week, a national initiative to heat up discussion about fire prevention safety and education. The theme for this year — “Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With!” — is aimed at smoke alarm systems and their importance in fire prevention.
MSU students strapped for cash no longer will be able to use their Bridge Cards to support a weekend at the casino, if a bill passed unanimously by the Senate Sept. 21 becomes law.
Celebrating the new launch of a nationwide financial aid contest sponsored by Viacom, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Vice President of MTV Public Affairs Jason Rzepka and President of the College Board Gaston Caperton spoke to student journalists Monday about reframing the way the nation approaches financing education.
A new partnership aims to help MSU students get a fresh pair of wheels. The MSU Bike Service Center teamed up with the owner of bike manufacturer Fuji Bikes, Advanced Sports International, or ASI, to offer discount prices on new bikes for MSU students.
A rental license application, that has faced many delays in processing, will be discussed at East Lansing City Council’s Tuesday night meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
East Lansing stores were forced to immediately remove a popular marijuana substitute, K2, from shelves and explain the product’s ban, after the substance became illegal across the state Friday after Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed bipartisan legislation, Thursday.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, has partnered with the Michigan Athletic Club to give discounted enrollment rates for graduate and professional students.
An exhibit showcasing a leaf from a Quran and related literature opened Friday on the first floor of the Main Library.
The Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, will meet today to discuss a request from the Department of French, Classics and Italian to merge with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Teach for America Day and Alumni Panel will take place from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at Kellogg Center.
There was a chilly autumn wind whispering across the grounds of the MSU campus on Sunday morning. But for East Lansing resident Dan Leyman, the weather was pristine for competing in the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, Dinosaur Dash.
A cell phone was the game piece, and downtown East Lansing and MSU’s campus were the interactive game board in the second annual “Becky Beauchine Kulka Diamond Dash,” Sunday afternoon.
Glass steins full of frothy beer and spätzle with schnitzle, combined with lively polka dancing on a brisk fall evening, made for a festive weekend at Old Town’s Oktoberfest in Lansing.
Researchers hope to more accurately identify factors that might increase the risk of developing breast cancer in some minority and socioeconomic groups, funded by a $14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Body size, childhood growth, diet and the physical activity of women will be considered to foster an understanding of how cancer occurs, said Ellen Velie, lead researcher and associate professor of epidemiology at MSU. Although it appears cancerous tumors are unique to each woman, more information is necessary to grasp how and which people are affected, she said.
Lyman Briggs sophomore Nicholas Tisdale pleaded guilty to charges of receiving and concealing stolen property Friday.
Every semester students brave the crowds on Grand River Avenue, rummaging through shelves in the slew of bookstores available, usually with a lengthy book list in hand.
Stacks of pizza boxes, gallons of pop, dozens of cookies and one giant plastic cow greeted students Thursday at the Veterinary Medical Center. More than 100 veterinary medicine students gathered in the cafeteria of the Center for the Large Animal Clinical Science, or LCS, program’s first “BIG Event.”
For foodservice business management junior Tracy Garley, there’s more to the college experience at MSU than spending four years on the banks of the Red Cedar.