Students searching for career options might have a better chance of being hired as AmeriCorps volunteers after President Barack Obama signed legislation last week to expand the program.
As swine flu increases in prevalence across the U.S. and possible cases begin to appear in Michigan, state health officials are making preparations in the event of an outbreak. The U.S. government declared a health emergency Sunday after 20 cases were reported. The U.S. first became aware of the virus Friday, Ingham County spokesman Marcus Cheatham said.
Improvements to city parks and two land acquisition projects headline the parks and recreation portion of the city’s 2009-10 fiscal year budget that will be presented tonight to the East Lansing City Council.
After years of watching her daughter excel in sports, Lorraine Robbins noticed most other adolescent girls weren’t as active. She decided she wanted to change their sedentary lifestyles.
MSU finance senior Kevin Boskey’s death in February was the result of methanol poisoning, according to autopsy and toxicology reports released Monday.
Students living in university housing during the 2009-10 year will see an increase of 5.25 percent for room and board rates, the MSU Board of Trustees decided Friday. The increase will raise the rate for a double room with an unlimited meal plan from $7,026 to $7,395, an increase of $369, according to the university.
Supply chain management senior Daniel Tuthill got a glimpse into the mystery behind the CIA when his class was asked to create a marketing program targeting students to work for the agency.
MSU police received a report of a sexual assault early Friday morning near the Main Library, and are continuing to investigate the incident, according to a police crime alert issued Friday evening.
Students, area residents and country music fans spent the brief sunny part of Saturday afternoon at the field outside Demonstration Hall, taking in the sights and sounds of the 8th annual Sparty’s Spring Party. But a rainy forecast kept attendance low and forced the party to end early.
The 46th session of ASMSU’s Student Assembly filled its leadership roles Thursday. The assembly elected its next chairs. The office of the chair represents the assembly to administration and state and federal governments.
Break dance crews across the nation met Saturday night in IM Sports-West for the Red Cedar Ransom, or the first jam held by the MSU Breakdance Club. Thirteen crews competed in the event, with the top team winning a first place, $1,000 prize.
When Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed a $9.1 million cut to MSU’s funding in February, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said there would be cutbacks. To compensate for the lack of state funding, she said it would take an almost 9 percent tuition increase or more than 700 faculty and staff layoffs.
RHA passed a revision to its bylaws Wednesday to fix a discrepancy regarding hiring practices. On April 8, RHA’s committee on internal affairs was asked to review bylaws because it was unclear if Chief of Staff David Averill had followed them in recent hiring.
A collaborative grant awarded Tuesday to MSU will give the university $50,000 to research development in Africa. The university is one of 20 U.S. colleges and universities to receive funds to address Africa’s environmental and developmental challenges.
The sequins on the dancers’ long skirts gleamed from the stage as they twirled and bounced to the beat that echoed through the Auditorium at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for Satrang.
As the nation celebrates planting trees for Arbor Day, East Lansing crews work to reforest areas of the city stricken by a tree-killing insect, and await the day when increased blight and inadequate funding make it impossible to continue replacing the trees.
Hundreds of students and other concerned citizens gathered Thursday at the Capitol steps to lobby for legislation to ban smoking in Michigan workplaces. The health care rally was organized by the American Medical Student Association, or AMSA, Student Osteopathic Medical Association and the MSU College of Human Medicine.
Fifteen of MSU’s graduate programs made top-10 lists in U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools.
MSU students are expected to have access to $7 million in new scholarship funds and financial aid after the university received an anonymous $10 million donation, the largest anonymous donation for student scholarships in MSU history, the university announced Thursday.
The 18th session of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly elected its chairpersons Tuesday, filling leadership roles that will represent the student voice for the 2009-10 school year. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.