After months of searching, MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business will have a chance to break new ground if Stefanie Lenway is approved as the new dean. Lenway, currently the dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, College of Business Administration, would be the first female dean in the history of MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
People might take issue with the bailout’s billions of dollars, the national deficit and the trillions tied to China, but the city of East Lansing is grabbing at every penny of grant money Washington has to offer.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Wednesday her plan to restore funding for the Michigan Promise Scholarship in her 2011 budget. The announcement came as part of the governor’s final State of the State address.
One week after proposing about $450 million in savings by cutting spending on state employees, term-limited Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will deliver annual speech tonight at 7 p.m.
President Barack Obama requested $10 million in his proposed 2011 budget to fund MSU’s future Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. University officials said the project is progressing as expected.
Republican candidate Rick Snyder leads all candidates with $3.3 million raised, but $2.6 million of that came from his own pocket. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox trails Snyder with $1.83 million, while the only announced Democratic candidate, state Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, has raised $36,245.
East Lansing City Council voted to move downtown taxi stands back to their original Albert Avenue location and also created six additional spaces on the street during its Tuesday meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
MSU Community Programs is hosting a clothing drive until Feb. 22. MSU Community Programs is part of the Student Alumni Foundation.
Terry Root, a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, is scheduled to discuss climate change and its effect on Michigan species from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Union, Parlors A and B.
Visit any local grocery store and you’ll find a seemingly endless spread of some of the world’s finest fish, ready for purchase. To the average consumer, the variety and abundance of fish appears to have never been greater — and that’s the problem, said Bill Taylor, an MSU professor of fisheries and wildlife.
The future of alternative fuels and economic freedom might be as simple as grass clippings and wood chips. Biomass such as straw, switchgrass and wood chips can be used to produce cellulosic ethanol, a potential replacement to ethanol produced from corn, wheat and rice, said Bruce Dale, associate director of MSU’s Office of Biobased Technologies.
The Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office received a request from the East Lansing Police Department for a fugitive warrant for Leo Wales III, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said.
All Secretary of State offices will be closed in observance of President’s Day on Feb. 15. Driver’s licenses and plates set to expire on Feb. 15 can be renewed the following day without penalty.
Shauna Sly is not a registered organ donor, but the special education and deaf education sophomore said that could change. A team of MSU researchers are turning to social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, to attract more student organ donors.
Symone Ayers lost five family members to cancer and cites her grandmother, a survivor, as her major source of inspiration. Kelly Knupfer lost her uncle to brain cancer and aspires to work for the American Cancer Society after graduation. Chelsea Lewis watched some of her closest friends fight cancer, and now she fights for them.
In celebration of Black History Month, MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine is sponsoring a lecture series slated to open at 5 p.m. Thursday at Kellogg Center.
To one MSU researcher, a rift between two opposing schools of thought on how to treat children with autism needs to close in the interest of advancing the field.
For the first time in MSU’s history, the State of the University address is going viral.
Michigan would receive $1.2 billion in new funding for Pell Grants helping more than 317,600 Michigan students afford college, as part of President Barack Obama proposed budget revealed Monday.
East Lansing police arrested a man Saturday morning for urinating in public, only to discover he is a fugitive from Mississippi convicted of shooting an Iraq war veteran several times during a robbery.