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Studio Art Major Helps Digitize World’s Largest Insect Collection at Field Museum

August 22, 2018

Last spring, when Charles Benoit, a Studio Art major with a minor in Museum Studies, participated in the Culture, Community, and Social Impact in Chicago study away program, the group visited the Field Museum, where Benoit learned they were digitizing the largest insect collection in the world. After the talk, he spoke with the museum’s Insects Director. That meeting eventually led Benoit…

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Ron Suskind to Speak at MSU

August 21, 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind will speak at the MSU Wharton Center for Performing Arts in the Cobb Great Hall on Monday, October 15, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the College of Arts & Letters' Leading Voices Series. Suskind’s book, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism, examines his family’s 20-year adventure of the heart with his son, Owen. Having lost his speech…

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Alumna Helps Lead Creativity and Design at American Girl

August 13, 2018

Each year, the products designed and created by Apparel and Textile Design alumnaRebecca DeKuiper for the American Girl company are highly anticipated and sought after by thousands of young girls around the world. DeKuiper is a Lead Designer of the “Girl of the Year” brand for American Girl, a popular doll manufacturer headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin, which has sold more than 32…

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De Felice Named New Director of English Language Center

August 9, 2018

Dustin De Felice has been appointed Director of the English Language Center (ELC) for a three-year term, effective August 16, 2018-August 15, 2021.An Assistant Professor in MSU’s Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA), De Felice is the former Director of the Master of Arts degree in Foreign Language Teaching (MAFLT) program, which is housed within CeLTA and is designed for current and aspiring foreign…

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Heather Douglas to Join Department of Philosophy Faculty

August 2, 2018

Heather Douglas will join the College of Arts & Letters on August 16, 2018, as an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. A philosopher of science, Douglas’ research focuses on the relationship between science and democracy, including the role of social and ethical values in science, the nature of scientists’ responsibility in and for science, and science-policy interfaces such as…

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Eight Student-Produced Short Films Featured at Traverse City Film Fest

August 1, 2018

This year’s Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF), which runs July 31-August 5, will feature several Michigan State University student-produced short films. On Saturday, August 4, at noon at Old Town Playhouse, 148 E Eighth Street, Traverse City, a collection of eight short films from College of Arts & Letters and College of Communication Arts and Sciences students will be shown. The screening is free and…

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A Leading Sherlock Holmes Website Finds a Home at MSU

July 30, 2018

When an important online resource about the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes was looking for a new home or faced the possibility of being taken down, Liza Potts, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, jumped at the opportunity such a project would provide for her students. Sherlockian.net, one of the leading sites for information on Sherlock Holmes, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,…

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Rhodes Appointed Interim Chair of WRAC

July 26, 2018

Professor Jacqueline Rhodes has been appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC) for a two-year term, effective August 16, 2018-August 15, 2020. For the past year, Rhodes has served as Director of the Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). Part of MSU’s College of Arts & Letters, CEDAR advances transformative scholarship and creative…

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Zitzewitz Appointed Interim Chair of AAHD

July 25, 2018

Karin Zitzewitz, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, has been appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) for a two-year term, effective August 16, 2018-August 15, 2020.

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Ph.D. Student Gains Hands-On Experience with Department of Education

July 23, 2018

This summer, Caitlin Cornell, a Ph.D. student in the Second Language Studies (SLS) Program, is gaining valuable insight into the State of Michigan’s Department of Education (MDE). As a shadow for an English Language and Accessibility Assessment Specialist with the MDE, Cornell gets a first-hand look at state educational assessments and has the opportunity to contribute to current projects. “I…