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      • Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College and College of Arts & Letters at MSU Launch Community Microgrant Program
        Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College and College of Arts & Letters at MSU Launch Community Microgrant Program
        June 19, 2025/
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      • Theatre Alum Returns to Campus as Part of ‘The Book of Mormon’ North American Tour
        Theatre Alum Returns to Campus as Part of ‘The Book of Mormon’ North American Tour
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      • Board of Trustees Approve Thomas Stubblefield as New Dean of MSU’s College of Arts & Letters
        Board of Trustees Approve Thomas Stubblefield as New Dean of MSU’s College of Arts & Letters
        June 13, 2025/
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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation

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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni / Nonprofit, Education, and Social Impact

Jill Vondrasek

September 11, 2019

MSU College of Arts & Letters alumna Jill Vondrasek recruited local inspiring women to start the Living Proof Together Foundation. Every October, the foundation hosts the Comedy for Cancer benefit, which aims to provide a platform for the community to come together and share in laughter and friendship around this disease.

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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni

Dan Robar

June 22, 2017

College of Arts & Letters and Department of Art, Art History, and Design alumnus Dan Robar has worked with clay nearly his entire life, a skill that has taken him all around the world and led him to help create many of the vehicles on the road today.

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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni / International Affairs, Law, and Government

Harrison R. Jones

February 21, 2017

Arabic '16
Account Manager at C.H. Robinson

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Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni / Nonprofit, Education, and Social Impact / Publishing, Editing, and Authorship

Shannon Regan

October 25, 2016

American Studies '09
Acquisitions Coordinator of E-Resources and Serials at New York Public Library

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Tom Choske

October 24, 2016

German '08
Candidate for Michigan State House of Representatives

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Design, Technology, and Media / Entrepreneurship, Business, and Innovation / Featured Alumni

Shannon Gillespie

July 29, 2016

Apparel and Textile Design '14
Associate Designer at Target Corporation

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