News – Page 148 – College of Arts & Letters

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University

November 14, 2016

By Dean Christopher P. Long on November 13, 2016 on cplong.org Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff: We in the College of Arts & Letters seek to advance the core values of Michigan State University — quality, inclusiveness, and connectivity — by practicing inclusion as a matter of institutional habit. As a result, our students, faculty, and staff, are well positioned in moments of uncertainty to respond…

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Pushing Past the Limits in Dance

November 11, 2016

At age 26, professional dancer and choreographer Billy Bell has already had an exciting career that has led him to compete in two seasons of FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, to dancing in Back to Broadway with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, participating in Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, acting in the New York City production of Sleep No More, and…

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News / Performance / Production / Student

Creating Theatre Magic Through Digital Media

November 10, 2016

Professor Alison Dobbins works on cueing software for digital media on the set of The Tempest. Step inside the Michigan State University Wharton Center for Performing Arts Pasant Theatre on a Thursday afternoon and you might be surprised by the way in which MSU students are preparing for a production of Shakespeare’s 450-year-old play, The Tempest. There are no actors, no candlelit stage,…

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Faculty / News

2016 New Full Professors

November 10, 2016

On November 17, Michigan State University will recognize three new professors to the College of Arts & Letters at the University Promotion and Tenure Ceremony Dinner. Please join us in congratulating these great scholars. Jeff Wray ProfessorDepartment of English Professor Jeffrey C. Wray, English and Film Studies, is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter. His award winning feature films include China, made for…

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Long View Blog

Our Debt to the Future

November 10, 2016

I am fortunate to work at an institution that is proud of its status as the pioneering land-grant institution in the United States. But that status, like the word pioneering itself, is not without a troubling history.

Featured Alumni / International Affairs, Law, and Government

Christina Hegwood

November 8, 2016

Humanities-Prelaw '10 Solution Developer at Deloitte Consulting LLP

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Featured Alumni / Publishing, Editing, and Authorship

Michael Gerstein

November 8, 2016

Philosophy '16 Reporter, State Government and Politics

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Alumni / Exhibition / News / Programs

Recent Alumna Completes Mural for MSU Program

November 8, 2016

A full-size mural for Michigan State University’s newly introduced Undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation program is the work of recent Studio Art alumna Mia Serafini, who graduated in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Graphic Design. Serafini was selected to paint the mural after being invited to submit a proposal, which included a sketch and a…