Michigan State plans $20M Spartan Stadium renovation
Source: Boston Herald
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 04:42:47 -0700 | sports-news
Michigan State University is planning a $20 million Spartan Stadium renovation to be wrapped up next year. The Detroit Free Press reports the East Lansing school's board holds a retreat and meeting June 19-21, during which construction is expected to...
Common Standards Set for Federal Education Research
Source: Education Week
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 12:57:27 -0700 | education-news
Sparks San Francisco As part of an effort to improve the quality of educational research and make it less balkanized, the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences have introduced a common set of evidence standards for federally...
Hunting Ranches Resist Efforts to Curb Feral Swine
Source: The New York Times
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-27 21:35:39 -0700 | green-news
At first he thought it was a deer, perhaps the big-antlered buck he had seen before and hoped to bag someday. Multimedia But the closer Steve Davenport got, the more unfamiliar the looming dark mass in the cornfield behind his...
GM sees April U.S. new-car sales rising at similar rate to March
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 18:25:54 -0700 | business-news
A General Motors logo is seen on a Denali vehicle for sale at the GM dealership in Carlsbad, California January 4, 2012. General Motors Co Chief Executive Dan Akerson said he sees the U.S. auto industry's new-vehicle sales in April...
Snyder aims to connect Michigan students to jobs
Source: Education Week
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 16:14:29 -0700 | education-news
Mich. (AP) Gov. Rick Snyder said Monday that Michigan's education and business must do a better job of collaborating if the state wants to improve the way students are connected to available jobs after graduation, and rid itself of a...
Study: 'Dumb jock' stereotype can be self-fulling prophecy
Source: United Press International
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 13:34:54 -0700 | sports-news
If a student athlete's coach expects high academic performance, the athlete is more likely to do well academically, a U.S. researcher says. "It's well-documented in the literature that many student-athletes hear prejudicial remarks from professors who say things like, 'This...
Stress key to survival of the fittest
Source: United Press International
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 11:55:51 -0700 | health-news
If the woods get crowded, mother squirrels improve their offspring's odds of survival by ramping up offspring growth, U.S. and Canadian researchers say. Ben Dantzer, formerly with Michigan State University's zoology department and now a postdoctoral researcher at the University...
People Are Surfing On Michigan's Rivers
Source: BusinessInsider
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 11:53:57 -0700 | business-news
Michigan is seeing crazy amounts of flooding this week and some people are taking advantage of the record-breaking river levels. Joe Matulis, who works at Matuli Paddle Surf in East Lansing, Mich., posted pictures this week of himself and friends...
Study: Twitter gives new meaning to 'power to the people'
Source: United Press International
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-18 13:44:54 -0700 | technology-news
Twitter can easily inform people about social movements such as Occupy Wall Street and even entice them to participate, U.S. researchers say. Benjamin Gleason of Michigan State University's department of education said the social networking site and its 140-character tweets...
MSU getting $24.5M for sustainable food effort
Source: SF Gate
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-02 06:13:38 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) Michigan State University researchers will get $24.5 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of a long-term effort to help developing nations find sustainable and secure food sources, officials said. Feed the Future Innovation Lab...
Poll: Mich. evenly divided on right-to work law
Source: SF Gate
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-03-31 12:52:55 -0700 | political-news
Mich. (AP) Michigan residents are about evenly divided over whether their new right-to-work law will help or hurt the economy, according to a Michigan State University poll. Forty-three percent of those polled said the law will help Michigan's economy, while...
MSU Museum receives largest gift in its history
Source: SF Gate
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-03-30 12:21:56 -0700 | political-news
Mich. (AP) The Michigan State University Museum plans to use its largest gift ever to create a curator for the East Lansing facility's historical collections. University officials on Friday announced the $1.9 million gift to be funded by the estates...
Cole Canyon students' odyssey continues
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-03-23 15:11:27 -0700 | allnews
Fourth-grader Aidan Maronde didn't know much about the Odyssey of the Mind program before he enrolled in it this year at Cole Canyon Elementary School. Although he thought one thing was for certain. "My friends kept telling me, 'When you...
Cole Canyon students' odyssey continues
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-03-23 15:11:27 -0700 | allnews
Fourth-grader Aidan Maronde didn't know much about the Odyssey of the Mind program before he enrolled in it this year at Cole Canyon Elementary School. Although he thought one thing was for certain. "My friends kept telling me, 'When you...
Revamp Your look Using these Excellent Ideas
Posted by: sam1pound
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-04-04 08:04:31 -0700 | your-story
Your clothes tell people about who you are. It is not difficult to put together an outfit for an occasion if you know how to approach it. Matching colors and styles take a little practice. If you want some hints...
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