Citizen Scholars Program Helps Fund Study Abroad to China

Citizen Scholar Margo Skornia, a junior with a double major in Theatre and Chinese, received funding from the Citizen Scholars program to help pay for her two-month study abroad trip to China this past summer. This study abroad experience allowed her to finish her Chinese major. She took Chinese language classes at the Harbin Institute of Technology each day from…

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‘Men on Boats’ Coming to MSU Auditorium

MSU’s Department of Theatre will perform Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men on Boats November 9-11 and November 13-18 in the Studio 60 Theatre at the MSU Auditorium.  Directed by Associate Professor Ann Folino White, Men on Boats is a story of Major John Wesley Powell and his crew who set off to chart the Green and Colorado Rivers on the first official government-sponsored expedition of the Grand Canyon.…

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Yen-Hwei Lin to Lead LingLang Department 

Dr. Yen-Hwei Lin has been appointed Acting Interim Chair of the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, effective November 5, 2018, through August 15, 2019. A Professor of Linguistics, Lin served as Department Coordinator from 2013-2015. She also was Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages from 2000-2003 and…

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Theatre Student Works with Professor on Interactive Musical

Junior Theatre major Jonas Higbee has been researching interactive musicals with Associate Professor Alison Dobbins since his freshman year at Michigan State University. Their research is based around Dance Engine, an ever-evolving artistic project that combines dancing, storytelling, improvisation, and audience interaction to build a single-story timeline. For Dance Engine, all audience members are given tablet computers or, in the most recent version…

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WRAC Alumna Awarded for Being an Outstanding Educator

College of Arts & Letters alumna Dawn Reed is the 2018 recipient of the Ray H. Lawson Award presented by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English (MCTE). Each year, this award honors one outstanding MCTE educator who has demonstrated leadership to the profession and is held in high esteem by colleagues and students. Reed is a teacher at Okemos…

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Alumna Receives National Award for Post-Graduate Work

Lindsay Tigue, who earned her B.A. in English at Michigan State University in 2007, is being recognized for her outstanding post-graduate work at the University of Georgia. She is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.  Tigue currently is a Ph.D. student in English/Creative Writing…

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ATD Student Creations on Display in Local Pop-Up Shop

Apparel, Textile, and Design (ATD) students took part in a design competition while learning about the retail and licensed merchandise industry during an event hosted by Top of the World, a collegiate headwear and apparel supplier. Some of the students created DIY pieces while others sketched outfit ideas for MSU gear. For the DIY portion, Top of the World provided…

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Open Letter Regarding Tree of Life Synagogue Tragedy

Our hearts go out to the victims of today’s horrific attack at the Tree of Life synagogue outside of Pittsburgh, and their families, fellow congregants, friends, and the entire community. We live in dangerous times. Individuals radicalized by the rhetoric of hate groups on social media are emboldened to act on their prejudice, in part through the inflammatory comments made by mainstream politicians. Antisemitic rhetoric is gaining greater legitimacy. It is therefore even more incumbent upon all of us to take care of one another, watch out for one another, treat one another with respect, empathy and kindness, while standing firm against hatred and prejudice of all kinds.

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Professor Receives Teaching Award

Tom Lovik, Professor of German in Michigan State University’s Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, received the Michigan World Language Association’s (MIWLA) Georges J. Joyaux Post-Secondary Educator Award at the MIWLA annual conference in Lansing on October 18. The Georges J. Joyaux Award is given to an outstanding post-secondary faculty member or administrator who is committed to…

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