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Fourth Annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium Set for March 21-22

March 14, 2019

The Digital Humanities at MSU (DH@MSU) program is hosting its fourth annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22, at the MSU Main Library. This year’s symposium will focus on migration, settlement, and mapping as a social justice approach to communicate information about where people have been historically, where they are now, and how they claim their space. “It is…

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Critical Race Studies Artist-in-Residence to Exhibit Work and Program of Events at MSU

March 14, 2019

An exhibition featuring the work of Qais Assali, Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist-in-Residence: Critical Race Studies, will be displayed at the MSU Union Art Gallery March 15-May 11. An opening reception for the exhibit is scheduled for Friday, March 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the MSU Union Art Gallery. Assali will do an artist talk on Wednesday, March…

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Alumnus Using His Linguistics Degree as a Language Engineer at Amazon

March 13, 2019

Patrick Kelley received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MSU in May 2018 and currently works at Amazon as a language engineer, where he works with technologies to improve Amazon’s Alexa, a form of artificial intelligence. Could you give a basic job description of your position at Amazon? I am a language engineer at Amazon, where my day-to-day changes almost every…

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MFA Candidate Wins Digital Design Competition for Her Costume Designs

March 11, 2019

Jenna Light, a second-year MFA in Theatre Design candidate, won the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s (USITT) Midwest Region Digital Design competition for her costume designs in MSU’s 2018 production, Dog Act. “Winning the USITT Midwest Regional student design competition was a complete surprise and an incredible honor,” Light said. “It means so much to me to have my work…

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Department of Theatre to Present ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

March 7, 2019

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle has endeared itself in the hearts of readers for generations. Using Tracy Young’s truthful and supremely theatrical adaptation, MSU’s Department of Theatre takes impossible feats of fiction and brings them to life in bold, imaginative, and thrilling fashion in this theatrical version of the classic novel. The story thrusts three children into peril beyond their years…

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Studio Art Major Wins ‘Most Inspiring’ at Social Justice Art Festival

March 6, 2019

Frankie Potochick, a senior Studio Art major, received the “Most Inspiring” award at the Second Annual Social Justice Art Festival for her painting, Innocence Lost, which focuses on the issue of gun violence in America. Potochick’s painting depicts an anatomically accurate heart covered in newsprint that reads the names of children ages 1 to 18 who passed away in early 2018…

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Using Participatory Approaches to Support Students and the Homeless

March 5, 2019

Benjamin Lauren, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), is working to help reduce the social stigma associated with homelessness and, drawing from his research on project management and leadership, helping to establish a network of MSU faculty, staff, and students interested in making MSU a basic needs secure institution. Lauren is collaborating with Laurel Burchfield…

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Students Receive Cash Prizes for Their Creative Resumes

March 1, 2019

During the second annual Java & Jam networking event, hosted by the College of Arts & Letters’ Excel Network, three students received cash prizes for their outstanding creative resumes. Winners of the Creative Resume Competition, funded by Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU), were announced by Dean Christopher P. Long and include: First place, $1,500 prize – Sean Vichinsky, senior Professional…

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Podcast: Diaspora & Decolonial Love

February 28, 2019

The newest episode of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast, titled Diaspora and Decolonial Love, is out! Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Yomaira Figueroa, Assistant Professor of English and Global Diaspora Studies, about her research regarding 20th century U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Diasporic literature and culture and her current book project, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. Figueroa also discusses the Womxn of Color…

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Graphic Design Students Receive ADDY Awards

February 27, 2019

Six Graphic Design students, all seniors, received 2019 Mid-Michigan American Advertising (ADDY) Awards, including one Gold, three Silver, and one Bronze, honoring their outstanding work on five separate projects. While in the professional competition, MSU’s College of Arts & Letters won a Silver ADDY for its microsite, Resilience: The 2018 Dean’s Report. Hosted by the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance, the local American Advertising Federation…