Assistant Professor Tacuma Peters is one of only 10 junior faculty from universities across the nation selected for a 12-month Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship offers career development opportunities for selected faculty fellows with promising research projects. Fellows are provided six-month…
Eric Manuel Rodriguez, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), has won a 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. He is one of 20 recipients from across the country to receive this award presented by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Rodriguez will be…
Emily Steffke, an Honors College senior majoring in neuroscience in the College of Natural Science and English in the College of Arts & Letters, has been named a Marshall Scholar. “I am deeply honored to have been granted this opportunity to leap to the forefront of international health discourse and so excited to pursue a doctorate of philosophy in oncology…
During her time at Michigan State University, Youjin Kong, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Philosophy, has taught a variety of philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses. She recently received the 2019 Somers Teaching Excellence Award, which recognizes graduate student instructors who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence, innovation, and creativity in undergraduate teaching. “The primary goal of my teaching…
For the third year in a row, Michigan State University will receive the NCTE Student Affiliate Excellence Award in recognition of its high standards of performance. MSU’s student organization for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is one of three student affiliates from across the nation to be honored with this award. “Receiving this award for the third year in…
Barb Miller, Research Administrator for the College of Arts & Letters, has received the Fall 2019 Unit Research Administrator Spotlight Award in recognition of her professional contributions and quality of service. Recipients of the award play an integral role in advancing MSU’s research mission and lead by example. Miller has worked for MSU for 10 years, of which the past…
Two Professors from the College of Arts & Letters are recipients of the 2019 Mid-Michigan Spartans Quality in Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom instruction through the incorporation of research and innovative learning opportunities. Christopher Frilingos, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, and Jonathan Choti, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages, will…
Aline Godfroid, Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and TESOL, is being recognized for her outstanding research in the area of second language acquisition and recently was elected to the Executive Committee of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) and will serve as Secretary of that committee. A leading scholar in the use of eye-tracking, Godfroid was named the 2019 recipient of the TESOL Award for Distinguished Research for her study, “Incidental vocabulary learning…
Michigan State University has received a $695,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, an international partnership that supports the development and implementation of new methods for assessing the nature and quality of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences over the next 18 months. The HuMetricsHSS initiative aims…
MSU's Department of Theatre's 2018-2019 Season received 31 nominations for Pulsar Awards and walked away with seven of those awards, the most of any organization. This was the 15th year for the Pulsar Awards, which recognize Lansing area community, professional, and college theatre programs. Earlier this month, Lansing City Pulse announced the nominees for the 2018-2019 awards. And although the number of nominations and awards received by MSU is impressive, they…
