Allison Tumas, a senior majoring in Arabic in the College of Arts & Letters, is one of two Michigan State University students who recently was awarded a Boren Scholarship to study languages abroad. Since 1991, there have been only 36 Boren award recipients from Michigan State University. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students studying in areas of the…
Continue ReadingStudent Awarded Boren Scholarship to Study Arabic Abroad
Two Department of Art, Art History, and Design students now have their artwork permanently displayed in downtown East Lansing as the winners of the MSUFCU (Michigan State University Federal Credit Union) mural competition. Malarie French, Graphic Design and Packaging double major, and Will Mianecki, Graphic Design and Professional Writing double major, created the winning design, which was painted by MFA graduate student Sam Bennett,…
Continue ReadingStudent Work on Permanent Display in East Lansing
Three College of Arts & Letters students were recognized with Board of Trustees’ Awards for having earned the highest grade point average at the close of their last semester at Michigan State University – a perfect 4.0. For this accomplishment, the students were presented with Board of Trustees Awards at the April 15 Board of Trustees meeting and will be…
Seven Arabic students from Michigan State University have won Flagship Scholarships, which will allow them to spend a year in Morocco at the Arabic Flagship site to advance their Arabic learning. While in Morocco, the students will have the opportunity to take courses at Moulay Ismail University and to do an internship, in addition to the intensive classes in Arabic.…
Continue ReadingSeven MSU Students Win Arabic Flagship Scholarship
College of Arts & Letters senior Joshua Schnell has won a National Science Foundation Award (NSF) from the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Schnell is an Honors College senior double majoring in Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Letters and Anthropology in the College of Social Science. Close to 17,000 students applied for this year's NSF awards with only…
University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF), which is the highest representation of any college on campus. Of those CAL students, 87 also are Honors College students. This year’s UURAF takes place Friday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the MSU Union. The forum includes poster and oral presentations by undergraduate research teams from all areas of study. Sponsored by…
Glitz, glamour, high-end fashion, big-name designers and runway models coupled with the behind-the-scenes controlled chaos of one of the world’s most prominent fashion weeks – a College of Arts & Letters student recently got to experience this world of luxury fashion during Paris Fashion Week. As the winner of the MSU Malone Souliers Business Strategy Challenge, Carlo Pardo, a double major in Apparel…
Continue ReadingParis Fashion Week Internship Exposes Student to Fashion
Two Ph.D. students in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies will be among the presenters at the 6th Annual César E. Chávez Commemorative Celebration on Friday, April 1, at Michigan State University. Jose Adrian Badillo Carlos, a second-year doctoral student in Hispanic Cultural Studies, will be one of the featured speakers at the event. In addition, he will be joined by Osvaldo…
Continue ReadingHispanic Cultural Studies Students Present at César Chávez Celebration
March 21, 2016 At age 29, Alejandro (Alex) Osorio-Hernandez is already an accomplished international graduate student and traveler. But then, with a B.A., two M.A.s—one each from universities on two different continents—and scholarly research interests covering medieval travel writing, Spanish travelers to the Holy Land, and medieval monasticism, it sort of goes with the territory. Currently an MSU Ph.D. student and teacher in the…
Continue ReadingWanderlust and Stellar Standing of RCS Fuels Journey to MSU
March 14, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-63bBkfO7c&feature=emb_title After practicing as an interdisciplinary environmental scholar and teacher for 10 years, Bethany Laursen switched fields to study theories of interdisciplinarity itself, which led her to Michigan State University where she is pursuing both an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Community Sustainability. “At MSU, I have the freedom to sit in two colleges and have committees that work across disciplines,”…
Continue ReadingStudent’s Interdisciplinary Studies Combine Philosophy and Community Sustainability
