The MSU Wake Team drags two members on skateboards off the back of a speedboat at the MSU Homecoming Parade on Friday, Sept. 22. The two members veered closer to the crowd to hand out candy to onlookers.
MSU basketball center Carson Cooper throws candy to a packed crowd at the MSU Homecoming Parade on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The men and women's basketball teams sat atop firetrucks and waved to fans.
Hand in hand, two Spartans walk in front of a CATA bus at the MSU Homecoming Parade on Friday, Sept. 22. The parade began near Aboot and Burcham and passed through Grand River to campus.
Two parade participants ride a horse-drawn carriage at the MSU Homecoming Parade on Friday, Sept. 22. The horses shook their manes as they clopped past.
Artist Sara Pulver at her downtown Lansing shop "Dear Ollie," named after her dog on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Pulver is the artist behind a mural in the new Strange Matter Coffee location in the MSU Union.
Aaron Gomez sits with an orange tabby at Constellation Cat Cafe at on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. The Cafe, located at 3320 E Lake Lansing Rd in East Lansing allows patrons to visit with a roomful of cats for an hour for $14 per person. The price includes a drink.
Herder Ken Vincent operates a skid loader to distribute sawdust across the floor of an outdoor barn. Cows retire to this barn between milking where they rest and eat.
Public relations senior Alexia Saucedo tunes her guitar at her apartment on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2023. Saucedo recently started playing guitar, inspired by her boyfriend, a musician. Saucedo said her guitar and her emotional support cats, Billy Joel and Bono, help her through difficult times.
Madelyn Snider gestures to a keyboard with soft blue backlights that she sometimes uses for work on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Madelyn’s room is also her office, and her clothes are hung from a shelf just to the left of her workspace.
Using a flat length of wood, a strainer, and a roll of duct tape, Kurt Mushlock crafts a makeshift tool to move slush away from his fishing hole. Mushlock is an experienced angler - he’s been ice fishing since he was 15, so he’s no stranger to the early morning preparation it requires.
Having weighed the first sturgeon catch, Baker moves it back to the table. The sturgeon appeared frozen solid during this inspection phase, but the fish sometimes flexed its body and moved its tail back and forth on the inspection table.
After the sixth sturgeon has been caught, anglers drag their shanties to the frozen shore or retreat to a temporary “beer tent” constructed on the ice. A line of trees “planted” in the snow helps protect anglers from becoming disoriented on the vast sheet of snow-covered ice.
A cow reaches its wet nose towards the camera. Cows are curious creatures and will often investigate (and sometimes lick) a new person or an outstretched hand.
Dominguez feeds a tube down the throat of a cow with pneumonia. A solution containing electrolytes - like Gatorade for cows - will be pumped down the cow’s throat. The docile animal hardly reacted to the invasive procedure, but relieved itself almost immediately after the tube was withdrawn.
A group of cows cluster against the fence as the sun sinks behind the tree line. Cows are resilient, and are comfortable in cold temperatures.
The oldest tree on MSU's campus on a sunny spring day on Thursday, April 6, 2023. The tree, a white oak (quercus alba) that survived a damaging 2016 storm is estimated to be around 375-500 years old.