Since high school, Lindsey Mutz has had a goal of interning for NBC’s The Tonight Show. The Michigan State University sophomore turned that goal into a reality this past fall when she spent the semester in New York City as an intern at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The internship gave Mutz, who is a Citizen Scholar with a double major…
In the wake of recent developments on campus, the Department of Theatre invites ALL MSU Students to Open Mic, Open Stage, Open Space at the MSU Auditorium on Sunday, February 18 from 7:00-10:00PM. Open Mic, Open Stage, Open Space will offer a warm gathering from students of ALL majors to present their work, opinion, act, song, spoken word, scene, dance, or whatever…
In preparation for the upcoming Department of Theatre production, Thus With A Kiss I Die, two Theatre students, Brianna Beeman and Sam Meade, were sent on a research trip to New York City to experience immersive theatre first-hand and participate in a variety of workshops with professional performers. Shortly after arriving in New York, Beeman and Meade began their research by attending one…
Rachel Nanzer, the Professional Writing student who created “Immeasurable Numbness,” had an idea. Instead of completing it in the privacy of a studio or her dorm room, she decided to complete the piece in public. She painted the background then set it up in Wells Hall during peak class times and began working on the foreground.
When The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story premieres on FX today (Wednesday, January 17), senior Technical Theatre major Savannah McComb will be watching and looking back on her role working on the show. This past summer, McComb worked as a Production Assistant for the FX TV series, American Crime Story. She was hired for the upcoming season, which explores the…
Senior Japanese major Lily McCormick has traveled more than 6,300 miles to participate in the Kakehashi Project, a short-term exchange program to Tokyo, Japan, that, for this particular trip, is focusing on pop culture and animation. Through the Kakehashi Project, McCormick and 24 other students were selected to travel from the United States to Japan January 8-16 to deepen their understanding of animation…
During her most recent linguistics internship, senior Karen Lovelace pushed herself far out of her comfort zone...about 3,965 miles to be exact. A Linguistics major with a minor in Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Lovelace spent 10 weeks over the summer in Utrecht, a city in the central Netherlands, at ReadSpeaker, a company that creates audio voices (comparable to Siri) for…
During their first semester at Michigan State University, students in the Citizen Scholars program were exposed to unfamiliar forms of artistic and cultural expression and asked to reflect on those experiences as part of a requirement toward earning their Citizen Scholars Badge.“Our students are invited to participate in many forms of experiential learning during their first year as Citizen Scholars — this is…
When Evan Dunbar, a senior Management major and German minor, first heard he received the Languages Engaged Scholarship through the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, he knew he wanted to use it to help offset the cost of traveling to Germany, but he didn’t know exactly how he was going to accomplish that goal, so he…
If you are looking for some last-minute holiday gifts, this week students in MSU’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) are displaying and selling their artwork in a pop up shop they helped set up at (SCENE) Metrospace. Pop Up: Art Market was organized by students in collaboration with (SCENE) Metrospace, a gallery located in downtown East Lansing that is run…