Shortly after state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, proposed legislation to cut legislators’ pay when they slash education funding, the Democratic senator announced she would donate her monthly legislative stipend to the East Lansing Education Foundation, or ELEF.
The city of East Lansing is offering students and recent graduates a chance to showcase their art skills for a regional population.
An MSU professor and a team of researchers from several U.S. institutions received national recognition last month for their research on maternal obesity and its impact on successful pregnancies.
A Pakistani movie premiering at MSU is starting to change people’s opinions not only about the country, but about it’s predominant religion, Islam.
The Midwest Roosevelt Institute Campus Network 2009 Fall Policy Workshop will be held Nov. 13 and 14 at the MSU Detroit Center, 3408 Woodward Ave., in Detroit.
The head of the Chinese consulate in Chicago, Consul Huang Ping, will visit MSU at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 6 in the Business College Complex Room N100.
Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh will be part of a guest lecture series through the Department of Art and Art History at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in room 109 of South Kedzie Hall.
The MSU Museum and Museum Store will offer extended hours until 7 p.m. Nov. 4 and 11. The museum also is holding a holiday benefit sale, which includes toys, books and gifts that celebrate world cultures and natural history.
Aaron Vande Wege will conclude The Children’s Concert Series at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Professional theater company Williamston Theatre, 122 S. Putnam St., in downtown Williamston, Mich., will open its production of “This Wonderful Life” by Steve Murray at 3 p.m. Nov. 27. and is scheduled to run until Dec. 20. Tickets for the 90-minute production go on sale Nov. 9.
A group of MSU researchers is helping fruit farmers across the state increase their crop yield and cut costs with the help of sex chemicals from female moths.
MSU researchers are concerned regulations on embryonic stem cell research proposed in a Michigan Senate Committee would interfere with their progress.
The Lansing Art Gallery, 113 S. Washington Square, in Lansing, will hold a community reception from 7-9 p.m. Friday in honor of three new exhibitions.
A one-night seminar designed to answer questions involving photography will be held from 6-9 p.m. Monday, at Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, in Meridian Township.
Jennifer Connarn learned this past summer not to believe everything you hear about MSU’s study abroad program. The finance junior said most people expect to ace the courses they take overseas, but her experience did not live up to the hype.
Two East Lansing neighborhoods north of Saginaw Street soon could restrict new rental units.
James Pivarnik, an MSU professor who specializes in exercise habits of women and children, will get a workout of his own in January when he carries the Olympic flame as part of the 27,000-mile Olympic Torch Relay leading up to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Although Xiaobo Tan has been working with robotic fish for the past few years, his work is diving to deeper depths. Tan, an electrical and computer engineering assistant professor, uses robotic fish to study data such as oxygen level, algae concentration and pollution in water settings in his lab.
When the first snowfall covers East Lansing and signals the beginning of winter, city officials expect to keep driving conditions safe in spite of a substantially tightened budget.
The annual drive for the Greater Lansing Food Bank is being hosted by WKAR Radio and Television from now through Dec. 15.