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Workshop Offers a Deeper Understanding of Community-Engaged Scholarship

June 23, 2025

Jonathan Choti, Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures (LiLaC) at Michigan State University, successfully completed a five-day summer intensive workshop on community-engaged scholarship hosted by MSU’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement. This training, which took place June 2-6, 2025, at MSU’s Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, attracted 41 participants, including faculty, academic staff, graduate students,…

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion / Faculty / Faculty / News

Faculty Voice: Examining What Is Integral to Jewish American Heritage

May 29, 2025

Yael Aronoff is the Director of the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, the Michael and Elaine Serling and Friends Chair in Israel Studies, and a Professor of International Relations at James Madison College. She is focused on research and teaching related to Israeli politics, culture, and society, as well as foreign policy. In this faculty voice, original published…

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African American and African Studies / Alumni / Arts MSU / Faculty / Faculty / Linguistics / News / Religious Studies / Research / Scholarship / Visual Arts, Arts Administration, and Performing Arts

First MSU Faculty and Alum Selected for Artists-in-Residence Program at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station

May 28, 2025

Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters will be well represented this year among the Farmscapes to Forests: Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Artists-in-Residence Program. The 2025 artists-in-residence will include an assistant professor, post-doctoral research associate, and recent graduate, all from MSU's College of Arts & Letters. They will be joined by an artist from New York to…

AAHD / Award / News / Student / Student / XA

Inaugural Bill Hart-Davidson XA Leadership Award Presented Along With Other Top Experience Architecture Awards

May 14, 2025

A newly created award presented for the first time this year by the Experience Architecture (XA) program at Michigan State University honors the memory of Bill Hart-Davidson, former Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures (WRAC) and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts & Letters, who passed away in April 2024. A…

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Work of Art Education Student Selected for National Juried Exhibition

May 13, 2025

From a young age, Elise Shulick-Richards found joy and inspiration in art. Now as a senior Art Education major at Michigan State University, her work appears in the 2025 College Invitational Exhibition, a national juried exhibition that runs through Sunday, May 25, at the Indy Art Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.The 2025 College Invitational Exhibition is where student art “meets the…

Faculty / Faculty / Faculty Stories / News / Publishing, Editing, and Authorship / Russian

Professors Awarded for Outstanding Innovation in Less Commonly Taught Languages Instruction

April 28, 2025

The team of Shannon Donnally Quinn, Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, and Anna Tumarkin, Russian Language Program Director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have received a 2025 Masters in Foreign Language Teaching (MAFLT) Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Innovation Award presented by the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center…

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Graduate Student Pursues First-of-Its-Kind Dual Program While Using Art to Explore Ecological Loss

April 21, 2025

Hailey Becker often chooses the path less traveled, and when there is no path, she has no problem blazing her own. In fact, her high school math teacher once told her: “the best job for you probably doesn’t exist yet.” Embracing her trailblazing nature, Becker is currently enrolled in a first-of-its-kind at Michigan State University – a dual program that…

Award / Faculty / Faculty / News

Ph.D. Candidate in German Studies Awarded Excellence-In-Teaching Citation

April 16, 2025

Mary Ellen Rutemeyer, a Ph.D. Candidate in German Studies in MSU’s Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, is a 2025 recipient of Michigan State University’s Excellence-In-Teaching Citation. Supported by MSU’s Office of University Development, Excellence-In-Teaching Citations are awarded to graduate teaching assistants who have distinguished themselves by the care they have given and the skill they have shown in meeting…

French / News / Student / Student

Graduating Senior on Career Path that Combines Both Food Science and French Degrees

April 15, 2025

Jaden Loy, who is graduating from Michigan State University in Spring 2025 with a B.S. in Food Science and a B.A. in French, will begin the next chapter of his educational journey in Europe, following a path that fuses both his undergraduate degrees. Loy was selected as one of only five students nationwide for the Lactalis Master's Program in Food Engineering at the L’École Supérieure des Agricultures (ESA) in Angers, France.

Award / News / Student / Student

Spring 2025 College Graduates Receive Board of Trustees Awards for Perfect 4.0 GPAs

April 11, 2025

Twelve College of Arts & Letters students who are graduating in Spring 2025 have earned Board of Trustees Awards for having maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average during their undergraduate education. These students are among the 271 graduating from MSU in Spring 2025 with a 4.0 GPA, the highest scholastic average one can attain at the end of their…