LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

SAULT STE, MARIE, MI – Lake Superior State is set to release more than 27,000 Atlantic salmon into the St. Mary’s River. The fish will be released into the 74.5-mile river that connects Lake Superior and Lake Huron and serves as a border between Michigan and Ontario, Canada. The release is scheduled to take place at at 9 p.m. on Wednesday at 100 Salmon Run Way in Sault Ste. “Environmental advocate and technology titan Martin Vanderploeg understands the importance that Lake Superior State University places in Atlantic salmon, their St. Marys River habitat, and Upper Great Lakes sustainability,” said LSSU President Dr. Rodney S. Hanley in a statement. LSSU has released Atlantic salmon yearlings into St. Marys River annually since 1987 and has used its own brood stock to supply the eggs since 2004.

MARIE, MI – A pair of 20-something lake sturgeons in a “touch tank” are ready to greet summer visitors to a new freshwater science center at Lake Superior State University. They are living fossils swimming in the public freshwater education space along the St. Marys River waterfront in Sault Ste. Marie, where visitors can reach their hands into the tank and touch the iconic freshwater fish revered across the Great Lakes watershed. The educational displays also include details about the history of the Native Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes. It contains world-class scientific laboratories and equipment, where both college and K-12 students will learn about Great Lakes topics.

MARIE, MICH. -- Lake Superior State University is once again sending off winter in an unforgettable way. This week the school in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula continues its 51-year tradition of hosting a “Snowman Burning” to kiss winter goodbye and signal the start of spring. Snowman Burning is the cornerstone of LSSU’s annual Springfest, which is free and open to the public. This year’s Snowman Burning will take place on Friday, March 18, at 6 p.m. in Cisler Plaza on the Lake State campus. RELATED:This Michigan vacation rental includes a private island, historic log cabin on a river‘Wait, what?’ tops Michigan school’s annual banished words; see full listThis boisterous bird is a true sign of Michigan spring, and it’s not a robin

Northern Michigan University offers various cannabis certificate programs and the University of Michigan in 2019 launched at least one course focused on the plant. The extent of marijuana available to Northern Michigan University students is a “speck on a slide” that’s used for chemical analysis, said university spokesman Derek Hall. Similarly, Northern Michigan University students learning about marijuana aren’t able to work with it. “Related to cannabis, (Northern Michigan University) operates by the federal guidelines of the Drug Free Schools Act,” said Hall. “Any state changes are secondary to the federal.”More on MLive:Should Michigan marijuana businesses disclose when ‘kill step’ is used?

There are only three entries associated with the pandemic this year after it dominated last year's list.

Every year, Lake Superior State University has to make the tough decisions on which words won’t be enjoying the New Year with us.

Law enforcement agencies across Metro Detroit are urging residents to avoid participating in celebratory gunfire as they bring in the new year.

Actress Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, has died. She was 99.

Every year, Lake Superior State University has to make the tough decisions on which words won’t be enjoying the New Year with us.

Lake Superior State University is accepting candidates for its 47th annual tongue-in-cheek list of words or phrases that should be banished, the Associated Press reports. The list is compiled at LSSU each year by a committee that combs through thousands of public nominations from people who are sick of certain words. The deadline to submit online entries this year is 8 a.m. EST on Nov. 30. Rabe, who was the school’s public relations director, and faculty came up with the first list at a New Year’s Eve party in 1975. RELATED:A remote Upper Peninsula white pine has been crowned Michigan’s tallest treeWhy Michigan has a bumper crop of acorns, pine cones and black walnuts this fall

MARIE, MI – A man who kidnapped a non-verbal child with special needs was sentenced this week to up to 30 years in prison – the maximum penalty in the case, authorities said. Dale Pavlat Sr. was sentenced on Tuesday for the kidnapping that happened on April 29, 2020, in Sault Ste. “Saving a child from the grips of a predator and then prosecuting successfully; this is how business gets done and why we serve and protect everyday,” Sault Ste. The Sault Ste. Marie Fire Department, Bay Mills Police Department, Sault Tribe Police Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Michigan State Police, and the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office.

After four years of playing on the ice for the Blue Devils, Grosse Pointe South's Regan Sherry is ready to continue her hockey career at the collegiate level.

MARIE, MI – Lake Superior State University is now offering a scholarship for students in cannabis chemistry. Hazel Park-based Steadfast Labs has established the $1,200 scholarship for students pursuing a degree in cannabis chemistry at LSSU, according to a university news release. Preference will be given to students who live in Wayne or Oakland counties – the service area for Steadfast Labs. “By funding this scholarship, Steadfast Labs again demonstrates their commitment to supporting future chemists who will enter the workforce and provide public safety in the cannabis field.”LSSU opened its 2,600-square-foot Cannabis Center of Excellence in February 2020 about a year after the university launched its cannabis chemistry and cannabis business majors. Lake Superior State University opens cannabis research centerGraduates from the new chemistry programs are expected to be in high demand for safety labs and quality assurance positions in any industry, officials have said.

Students at Lake Superior State University have had the unique opportunity to pursue a degree in cannabis chemistry since 2019. Now, they can also get cash to do it.

Lake Superior State University opened the first cannabis chemistry program in the nation in 2019, and now it’s offering its first cannabis chemistry scholarships. Students...

MARIE, MICH. -- One Upper Peninsula university’s practice of “unicorn hunting” is alive and well as the tradition marks its 50 anniversary — just don’t attempt to bag the mythical beast on Valentine’s Day. That’s the message from Lake Superior State University, which is breathing new life into a tongue-in-cheek tradition first dreamed up by the late W.T. While the practice of dressing up and prancing into the woods on “questing” missions dwindled after Rabe’s retirement in 1987, the school has carried the playful torch by continuing to issue official unicorn questing licenses. Unicorn questing licenses are currently free of charge. To apply for a unicorn questing license of your own, or to read up on unicorn questing regulations, visit www.lssu.edu/traditions/unicornhunters.

heritage groups to preserve collections and offer public access, The Mining Journal reported. has struggled to identify, collect and preserve its documentary heritage,” said Marcus Robyns, archivist at Northern Michigan University. Robyns reached out to more than 20 heritage groups in the U.P. and found that only the Delta County Historical Society in Escanaba provides online public access to digital material. UPLINK will be managed by representatives from NMU, Michigan Technological University, Lake Superior State University and some heritage groups.

A cumulative total of 6,427 have been sickened in ongoing outbreaks, the report says. Ongoing outbreaks include clusters identified earlier but that had at least one additional case in the past 28 days. Monday’s school outbreak report show there were 6,157 students and staff infected in ongoing outbreaks associated with college communities. Among K-12 schools, there were 284 staff and students infected in ongoing outbreaks at 31 schools serving pre-K through high school. Outbreak data for K-12 schools includes only cases in which the student or staff was infected at school or at a school-related function.

A team at Wayne State University released its annual list Wednesday of long-forgotten words to add to your vocabulary in 2021. The 12th annual WSU Word Warriors list includes 10 words that show no signs of anagapesis (loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved) toward the English language – and may rejuvenate a love for words in others. “Our Word Warriors once again provided a batch of words that make our language richer. RELATED: Banished words of 2020 include ‘COVID-19,’ ‘Karen’Here’s the Word Warriors’ 2021 list:Anagapesis: Loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved. Refreshing words can also be found on the Word Warriors Facebook page.

“COVID-19” and “social distancing” are thrown in with “we’re all in this together," “in an abundance of caution” and “in these uncertain times” on the school’s light-hearted list of banned words and phrases for 2021. “To be sure, COVID-19 is unprecedented in wreaking havoc and destroying lives,” Banished Words List committee members said Thursday in a release. “But so is the overreliance on ‘unprecedented’ to frame things, so it has to go, too.”The school in Sault Ste. But basketball players pivot; let’s keep it that way.”— Unprecedented. “In a small way, maybe this list will help ‘flatten the curve,’ which also was under consideration for banishment.

As you say goodbye to 2020, think about bidding farewell to these 10 banished words and phrases as well. COVID-19 terminology monopolized submissions for the annual Banished Words List with more than 250 of the 1,450-plus nominations for banishment being related to the virus. Seven of the 10 banished words relate to the pandemic. 1 to get rid of is what started it all: “COVID-19.”“It should surprise no one that this year’s list was dominated by words and terms related to COVID-19,” the LSSU Banished Words List Committee members said in a joint statement. The Banished Words List debuted in 1976, and has reflected the signs of the times since then.

Seven of the 10 selected are connected to the virus, with “COVID-19” leading the way. “To be sure, COVID-19 is unprecedented in wreaking havoc and destroying lives,” Banished Words List committee members said Thursday in a release. “A large number of nominators are clearly resentful of the virus and how it has overtaken our vocabulary,” the committee wrote. But basketball players pivot; let’s keep it that way.”— Unprecedented. “In a small way, maybe this list will help ‘flatten the curve,’ which also was under consideration for banishment.

ANN ARBOR – There’s a pipeline being generated in Ann Arbor for one of the Upper Peninsula’s Division II basketball programs. Not one, not two but three Ann Arbor Huron senior boys basketball players will be playing for Lake Superior State University’s men’s basketball team next year after the commitment of senior Devin Womack. Womack, a 6-foot-5 guard, announced his commitment Friday afternoon via his Twitter account joining current teammates Tyson Edmondson and Kingsley Perkins as Laker commits. Blessed to announce that I will be committing to Lake Superior State University to continue my academic and athletic career! Womack, Perkins and Edmondson are three of four Huron basketball players who will play college basketball at the DI or DII level as fellow senior Julian Lewis signed to play for William & Mary last week as well.

Lake Superior State University is sounding the final call for submissions for its 46th annual Banished Words List, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to words people love to hate. “It’s our tradition to publish the world-famous banished words list on Dec. 31 so that people don’t begin the new year by putting their foot in their mouth,” LSSU President Rodney Hanley said, according to the Associated Press. “No-brainer — which also made our list in the past.”The deadline to submit online entries is 8 a.m. EST on Nov. 30. Other examples of previous years' banned terms include “my bad” (‘98), “baddaboom, baddabing” (’94), “it’s all good” (‘00), and “selfie” (’14). So far, more than 1,000 words or phrases have been added to the LSSU banished-words archive.

Lake Superior State University is accepting candidates for its 46th annual tongue-in-cheek list of words that should be banished. “It’s our tradition to publish the world-famous banished words list on Dec. 31 so that people don’t begin the new year by putting their foot in their mouth,” LSSU President Rodney Hanley said. “No-brainer — which also made our list in the past.”The deadline to submit online entries is 8 a.m. EST on Nov. 30. More than a dozen words or phrases were added last year, including “artisanal,” “influencer,” “living my best life” and “chirp.”There are more than 1,000 banned words or phrases in the Lake Superior State archive. Rabe, who was public relations director, and faculty came up with the first list at a New Year’s Eve party in 1975.

MARQUETTE, MI – Upper Peninsula universities are joining forces to combat flu season. Spearheaded by the Center for Rural Health at Northern Michigan University, “Fight the Flu” is a multicampus effort to keep students and staff healthy in 2020. Students, staff and faculty from Finlandia University, Lake Superior State University, Michigan Technological University and Northern Michigan University are competing to see which school can get the highest percentage of its total population vaccinated against the flu. “We plan to continue collaborating with them as we move forward.”In addition to upcoming scheduled flu shot clinics on campus, the vaccine is also available locally at the health department, outpatient clinics, community flu shot clinics and pharmacies. To learn when on-campus flu shot clinics are available and to compete, visit nmu.edu/fight-the-flu and self-report once the vaccine has been administered.

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (GLIAC) announced Wednesday that all fall sports are suspended until 2021 amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. A number of Michigan colleges and universities are impacted by the conferences suspension: Davenport University, Ferris State University, Grand Valley State University, Lake Superior State University, Michigan Technological University, Northern Michigan University, Northwood University, Saginaw Valley State University and Wayne State University. Plans to provide fall teams with competition opportunities during the spring semester are a priority for the league. Other GLIAC member schools include: Ashland University, Purdue University Northwest and the University of Wisconsin Parkside. The MAC is among the leagues hoping to play some semblance of a season in the spring, depending on the state of the pandemic.

DETROIT Local 4 is tracking the Michigan General Election results for Nov. 5, 2019. The neighbor who found a Michigan woman dead after her husband allegedly spiked her cereal with heroin shared new details in court Tuesday. Herman Walters died in a hit-and-run crash in July when a high-speed driver slammed into him in Detroit. Lake Superior State University is offering a marijuana degree program, the first degree of its kind in the United States. Read MoreMonday, Nov. 4, 2019 --

Lake Superior State University is offering a marijuana degree program, the first degree of its kind in the United States. READ: Marijuana degree: Lake Superior State University offers cannabis programsThe university, located in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., says the Cannabis Chemistry program is a mix of core curriculum chemistry with cutting-edge cannabis courses. Its the first degree of its kind in the United States. Allie Anderson will be graduating with a first-of-its-kind degree in marijuana. The national numbers suggest by the end of this year her degree wouldnt just be of use here in Michigan. Nationally, the marijuana industry is looking at about 200,000 job openings.

Updated: 10:43 AM, Nov 5 2019 Published: 10:43 AM, Nov 5 2019A new marijuana degree program at Lake Superior State University promises to prepare students with the knowledge necessary to gain employment in emergent cannabis markets." The university, located in Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., says the Cannabis Chemistry program is a mix of core curriculum chemistry with cutting-edge cannabis courses. Its the first degree of its kind in the United States. First of all, the market is expanding rapidly," said Dr. Steven Johnson, the professor of Cannabis Chemistry for Lake Superior State University, in an interview with UpNorthLive. Lake State also is offering a Cannabis Business degree program -- a baccalaureate of science. The program tailors the basics of business management principles to specific cannabis business functions and operations, reads a statement on the schools website.

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The latest words added to the "banished list" Lake Superior State University released its 40th annual "list of words to be banished from the Queen’s English language for misuse, overuse and general uselessness." Notable additions include "bae," "polar vortex," and "cray-cray."