Prenursing sophomore Jen Ung was surprised by the suspicious man who knocked on her door Wednesday afternoon in Abbot Hall asking for donations to his church. “He had one tooth and just looked really sketchy,” Ung said. “He gave this whole speech about his church that he was raising money for. … It kind of sounded like a scam.”
Although information technology jobs have become synonymous with outsourcing, MSU and IBM reversed that trend two weeks ago when the computer company announced an agreement to establish a programming center on campus.
Changing the name of his coffee franchise from a potentially offensive moniker to one simply referring to the big “B” on the shop’s paper cups wasn’t a problem for Biggby Coffee founder and CEO Bob Fish.
The trial for the man charged with the assault of a female student last fall begins today at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse, 313 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
The long march toward updating a set of bylaws that could change the structure of Academic Governance continued last week as Faculty Council began sifting through related documents.
With more than $100,000 left over from last semester’s budget, the MSU Residence Halls Association hopes to present more concerts and improve existing programs. The surplus, which is not uncommon, was due to some projects falling through, RHA President Mark Dobson said.
When three college students gathered Thursday outside the office of Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., they were hoping to speak with Levin about his support of Israel. Instead, they were arrested.
Dozens of pages with hastily scribbled notes are crammed into a leather-covered binder on a table in Nancy Cotter’s house. Inside are records of every phone call, every inquiry, every plea she has made to answer the question that has devastated her for more than a year: How did her daughter, Rylan, die on Jan. 7, 2008?
Two recent studies by MSU researches could advance the biofuels industry. Chemical engineering and materials science professor Bruce Dale and his team of researchers found evidence against previous arguments that producing biofuels creates more greenhouse gas than it offsets.
By working with community groups and cracking down on traffic violations, MSU police earned the 2008 Excellence in Traffic Safety Award from the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, or MACP.
Star-crossed sea lampreys might soon have a serious case of heartbreak. Researchers Weiming Li and Nicholas Johnson and their team have found a way to synthesize the pheromone, or chemical, that attracts female lampreys to male lampreys. They hope to use it to lure the females into traps to help control the lamprey population, Johnson said.
Two sexual assaults in two days are causing concern among law enforcement officers and students as police search for suspects in the crimes. After a student reported being sexually assaulted Tuesday afternoon while walking along Hagadorn Road near Hubbard Hall, another assault was reported to MSU police Wednesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
An important part of Rosetta Sloan’s diet has disappeared from MSU cafeterias. Sloan, who avoids eating meat when possible, is searching for other sources of protein this week after the university pulled peanut butter products in precaution of a nationwide salmonella outbreak.
Au Gres, Mich. — Seventy-seven years after leaving MSU a few credits short of graduation, Fred Sheill stood in the foyer of his house Monday proudly sporting a green-and-white MSU T-shirt.
Abortion rights community members gathered Wednesday to celebrate and educate others about Roe v. Wade, which legalized first-trimester abortions in 1973. Today is the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is proposing an adviser rating system similar to how professors are rated at the end of each semester.
The East Lansing Film Society Film Series will show the film “Frozen River” from 4-7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, and at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Feb. 6-8 at Wells Hall. Admission is $7 for the public and $3 for students.
Facebook.com could double as a study tool this spring for select students in MSU’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
The need to bring more business to East Lansing was the theme of Tuesday’s City Council meeting, as members examined several ordinances aimed at future development.
As of noon Tuesday, the nation is in Barack Obama’s hands. In front of a crowd estimated to exceed one million people, Obama assumed the presidency from George W. Bush and became the first African American president in U.S. history.