Michigan State University Associate Professor of English Sheila Contreras, in partnership with Capital Area District Libraries, was awarded a $14,000 grant to host the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read in the Greater Lansing/Mid-Michigan area. An initiative of the NEA in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the…
Sometimes to understand our current worldview, it is necessary to examine and understand the events of our past, at least according to Assistant Professor of French Valentina Denzel, whose area of research focuses on how the Age of Enlightenment, an intellectual and philosophical European movement during the 18th century, continues to shape our everyday life. Denzel first became interested in…
Having taught more than a dozen different classes at Michigan State University — from Introduction to Film and Film Technologies to Film History and even a capstone seminar on the Digital Documentary — Associate Professor Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai’s ability to combine the scholarly with the creative has propelled his success in the classroom.
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…
After spending a year in Germany on the Academic Year in Freiburg Program, alumna Caroline Murawski knew she was meant to live abroad. Graduating from Michigan State University in 2009 with a double major in Hospitality Business and German, Murawski has lived and worked in Germany for the past 7 years. Currently, Murawski and her fiancé own and run Big…
Professor Jacqueline Rhodes and Assistant Professor Dawn Shoultz Opel, both faculty members in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, received a three-year, $140,000 grant from Humanities Without Walls (HWW) to create and sustain humanities-centered health service research collaboratives.Their project, “Building Collectives in a Changing Healthcare Climate,” is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Critical Diversity in a Digital…
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…
Senior Alex Babbitt has been selected as a member of the newest class in the HASTAC Scholars fellowship program, a student-driven community of graduate and undergraduate students working at the intersections of technology, arts and humanities, and sciences. As an HASTAC Scholar, Babbit, an English major with two minors in French and Digital Humanities, is able to connect, both virtually and…