Autumn Hauer graduated from Michigan State University in 2015 with an Apparel, Textile, and Design degree. She recently was promoted to Project Manager at Sugarpill Cosmetics in Los Angeles, California. Previously, she had worked as the company’s Brand and Social Media Manager. We recently caught up with Hauer and asked her about her new position and the career path that…
For the past 10 years, Kirsten Fermaglich, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, has researched the practice of Jewish name changing in the United States and has written a book on the subject, titled A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America. The book, published by New York University Press and released in October,…
Born with no hands and missing her big toes and supporting bones on each foot, Kathryn Bailey hasn’t allowed her quadrilateral limb deficiency to keep her from living a “normal” life and now is about to graduate from Michigan State University with a degree in Studio Art and a concentration in Painting and Graphic Design from the Department of Art, Art…
Lamar Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, received the 2018 English Journal Edwin M. Hopkins Award for his scholarly article, Loving Blackness to Death: (Re)Imagining ELA Classrooms in a Time of Racial Chaos. The award, presented to Johnson on November 17 at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention in Houston, Texas, recognizes outstanding articles published in English Journal during the previous year.…
In the open letter we wrote to the College of Arts & Letters community in January 2018, we promised to look critically at ourselves, recognize our failures, and rebuild the trust that is requied of us. This commitment has led to an intense period of critical self-reflection in the Dean’s Office and across the College in which we have considered the core values we aspire to embody in our work and interactions with one another.
He was Vice President of the United States back then. My son was just under a year old. I’d introduced them for the first time during a staff picnic, in 1987, at the Vice Presidential Residence. Hot dogs, punch, and other picnic-type foods were the order of the day — fun, fatty foods that my little boy wasn’t accustomed to,…
Less than a year after graduating from Michigan State University with a BFA in Graphic Design, Lorenza Centi started working as an Art Director at Weber Shandwick, a public relations and advertising agency, where she works exclusively with the Chevrolet brand and its 12 different social media channels for each vehicle nameplate. “It's really fun being able to work on…
In the open letter we wrote to the College of Arts & Letters community in January 2018, we promised to look critically at ourselves, recognize our failures, and rebuild the trust that is required of us. This commitment has led to an intense period of critical self-reflection in the Dean’s Office and across the College in which we have considered the…
Starting at Michigan State University and traveling nearly 4,000 miles around the world, the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Galway, Ireland, hosted a photography exhibit at its Center for the Creative Arts and Media that showcases the work of the 127 photographers from 39 countries who were students of the first Photography Specialization course, taught by MSU Professors Peter Glendinning,…
An initiative aimed at raising environmental awareness and engagement in Monroe, Michigan, that was born out of a collaboration with MSU’s College of Arts & Letters is now being recognized with the Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Service by MSU’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement. Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design,…