MSU News

On election night, newsrooms around the state will be shoulder-to-shoulder with writers, reporters and editors, all striving to get the stories quickly and accurately. But nowhere in Michigan will there be a larger, more fully staffed newsroom than at Michigan State University

The Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University will celebrate its opening Nov. 10-11 with a series of events, most of which are free and open to the public.

The MSU College of Human Medicine today announced plans to hold West Michigan’s first Gran Fondo cycling event, June 29, 2013. Proceeds will support MSU’s skin cancer research in Grand Rapids.

Michigan's emergency manager law gives individuals sweeping power over financially troubled public school districts. But Michigan State University researchers say the law does not address student learning and could even hurt academic performance in high-need communities.

As in most presidential election years, the new media have been discussing the potential for an “October Surprise.” In 2012, Hurricane Sandy may be just that, said Saundra Schneider, MSU political science professor.

Community colleges in the United States have made huge strides since 2008 in cultivating a global workforce, according to a first-of-its-kind study co-led by a Michigan State University researcher.

Mitt Romney doesn’t appear to be getting much of a home-state bounce in Michigan, MSU political scientist Matt Grossmann says.

The MSU Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Fred Poston as dean of the university’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at its Oct. 26 board meeting.

Karin Pfeiffer, MSU associate professor of kinesiology, has been appointed to the Science Board of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.

WKAR will host its next Community Cinema screening and community discussion at 7:30 Thursday, Nov. 1, at the WKAR studios.

Warmer oceans in the future could significantly alter populations of phytoplankton, tiny organisms that could have a major impact on climate change.

The Michigan State University Board of Trustees will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Board Room of the Hannah Administration Building.

Many police agencies are using ineffective methods to determine how many patrol officers they need and how to best deploy them, an MSU criminologist says.

Medical organizations that make race-based recommendations are misleading some patients about health risks while reinforcing harmful notions about race, argues a Michigan State University professor in a new paper published in the journal Preventive Medicine.

A Michigan State University faculty member is taking a lead role in a national initiative designed to improve the quality of undergraduate teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields.

A long-standing afterschool program created by MSU has been honored as having one of the nation's most innovative approaches for helping middle school students succeed.

The class of 2011, the first group of students exposed to the Michigan Merit Curriculum for their entire high school careers, saw mixed results, according to a study released today by a research consortium that includes Michigan State University.

Art patron, philanthropist and MSU alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have donated 18 works by artists including Jonathan Borofksy, Terry Winters and Sue Williams to the Broad Art Museum at MSU. This new gift is in addition to “Containment 1” by Roxy Paine, the signature work for the museum’s sculpture garden, also donated by the Broads.

Twitter, best known as the 140-character social-networking site where Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga chit-chat with fans, has become a new literary format that is improving student learning, a new study argues.

Faded and sometimes tattered, letters and journal entries written 150 years ago by hopeful and homesick Civil War soldiers will forever be preserved online, thanks to digitization by Michigan State University archivists.