For Keali Chambers, learning how to control and manage certain invasive species drew her to a job in entomology. The fisheries and wildlife junior has been working with emerald ash borer beetles that kill millions of ash trees in Michigan alone.
Local investigators have reopened the 1970 murder case of a 19-year-old Lansing woman found dead on the outskirts of campus. Marie Ann Jackson disappeared from the Lansing area on November 13, 1970. Her body was discovered in a pine grove eight days later by a man looking for a hunting site.
A continuous battle cry from students for a quieter library persuaded MSU Main Library officials to reserve the entire east wing for quiet study only. The change in policy — effective at the beginning of this semester — asked cell phone users to take their calls to the stairwells and for study groups to use the west wing for their projects and discussions.
Because the state Legislature has struggled to reach a budget agreement, an issue important to many MSU students is falling through the cracks — health insurance. Proposals that would allow students and others to remain covered under their parents’ health insurance plan until the age of 26 have sat idle since May.
While the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. continue to search for an agreement to end the strike, Jelissa Hardy will be staying within the safe confines of her East Shaw Hall dorm room.
Papa John’s Pizza is leaving its slice of East Lansing at 1105 E. Grand River Ave. With the closing, the chain store’s Lansing location at 1522 E. Michigan Ave. will deliver pizzas to East Lansing and campus residents beginning Oct. 1.
ASMSU will vote on a bill Thursday to decide whether the undergraduate student government should try to get candidates to Lansing before the presidential primary elections.
Students and staff said they are reacting positively to a policy change which designated the Main Library east wing for quiet study only.
A couple getting married at the Kellogg Center had a hitch in their plans to tie the knot Friday when the bride’s mom hung her daughter’s wedding dress on a ceiling sprinkler head, setting off the sprinkler system and filling a hotel room with six to eight inches of water, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Four years ago, a group of programs at MSU and the surrounding community gathered to share ideas and resources in assisting students who have been victims of sexual assault and to warn others.
Ramadan is an Islamic 30-day fasting period that some MSU Muslims describe as an important yet stressful religious holiday.
Many East Lansing-area residents opened their doors to live music Sunday evening when members of the East Lansing High School marching band performed on front porches and accepted donations.
The potential conversion of Hagadorn Road and the proposed construction of a sound wall near a local neighborhood will be among the topics discussed at Tuesday’s City Council work session.
Father Mark Inglot sees St. John Student Parish, 327 M.A.C. Ave., as a microcosm of the world, inclusive of all MSU students, faculty and staff. Their support group, One Spirit, is a way for them to reach out to the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community looking to strengthen their spirituality.
LeAnne Franke thumbed a text message to her son, premedical freshman Thomas Franke, that said she was walking away from her job Monday at General Motors Corp.‘s Lansing Delta Township plant.
With Michigan facing a $1.75 billion shortfall and the start of the new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, the state risks a government shutdown if a solution is not reached in time.
New York — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruffled American feathers Monday afternoon when he spoke out about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and cast doubt on the Holocaust at an appearance at Columbia University.
Despite the Michigan Senate passing about $950 million in cuts on Monday and negotiations floating between both chambers, citizens are losing faith in a government that is facing an impending budget deadline.
“No real progress.” After a weekend of little movement and a failed vote on an income tax increase Thursday night, those were the words of Phyllis Washburn, spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Craig DeRoche, R-Novi.
Dressed in happi, a traditional Japanese workman’s festival clothing, four drummers crouched low to the stage, extending their front legs while pounding two miya taiko, or barrel drums. Their movements were inspired by the movement of fishermen pulling in nets of fish on the Japanese island of Miyake.