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Linguistics Major Interns with Clinical Applications of Speech Acoustics Lab

November 15, 2023

Sara Cook, a senior with a double major in Linguistics and Communicative Sciences and Disorders, interned with the Clinical Applications of Speech Acoustics (CASA) Lab at Michigan State University, which is led by Thea Knowles, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. Cook recently shared her experiences with this internship in the following Q&A that originally was…

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Alum Reunites with Mentor Who Helped Kickstart Her Career

November 15, 2023

In Spring 2020, Shelby Eppich became one of the first two people to graduate from Michigan State University with a BFA in Stage Management, a program founded in 2017 by Tina M. Newhauser, Head of the Department of Theatre’s Stage Management Program at MSU.Now, three years after earning her degree, Eppich works as the Artist Relations and Special Projects Manager…

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New Black Religion Courses Enhance Religious Studies Curriculum

November 13, 2023

From the days of slavery to the Black Lives Matter movement, religion has played an essential role in the lives of Black Americans. However, that role is often misunderstood or viewed through stereotypes of submissive slaves bowing their heads in prayer and acceptance of their fate. In reality, Black religion has evolved as a means of protest and power. The…

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Religious Studies Professor Returns to Her Native Community for 1855 Professorship

November 10, 2023

Blaire Morseau grew up in New Jersey and spent most of her life there, including her undergraduate years at Rutgers University, yet she considers Michigan her home. As a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, which is based in Dowagiac, Michigan, Morseau spent many summers in the Great Lakes State where she attended powwows and worked at various…

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Mina Loy’s Trailblazing Feminism Takes Center Stage in World Premiere at MSU

November 9, 2023

A team of interdisciplinary artists will present a cross-institutional staging of the feminist futuristic poetic dramas of Mina Loy on Thursday, Dec. 7, and Friday, Dec. 8, at the MSU Broad Art Museum and at the University of Michigan-Flint North Bank Dance Studio, respectively. This world premiere is free and open to the public.  Mina Loy dressed for the Blindman’s Ball at Webster…

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Faculty Voice: What goes on behind the stage

November 8, 2023

Scene Shop Supervisor Levi Galloway, Technical Director D.J. Selmeyer, and Assistant Technical Director Marc White, from the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University, write about the technical seminar they hosted Oct. 12 for Theatre students. The seminar took place on the set of “Clue” at the Pasant Theatre in the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts. Scene Shop Supervisor…

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Experience Architecture Student Awarded Bradbury Scholarship for Entrepreneurial Excellence

November 8, 2023

The Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is delighted to announce Mutunga Mukeku as the first recipient of the prestigious Bradbury Scholarship for Entrepreneurial Excellence. Mukeku, a junior within Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters majoring in Experience Architecture with minors in Business and Entrepreneurship and Innovation, is a shining example of Spartan entrepreneurship. The Bradbury Scholarship, a symbol of outstanding…

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MSU Student Interns at The Met in New York City

November 7, 2023

Laine Lord is passionate about all things involving art, writing, and museums. This passion led to a dream-come-true internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City, the largest art museum in the nation and one of the most respected art institutions in the world. A native of West Bloomfield, Michigan, Lord is a senior double…

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Research Shines New Light on Role of Women in Founding Jewish American Education

November 6, 2023

Laura Yares has spent “years sitting in archives” researching a period of Jewish American education that historians have largely overlooked as insignificant, a period in which very little had been written about up until the release of Yares’ recently published book, Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies with a…

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Exploring the Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

November 3, 2023

Educators and students currently are trying to figure out how to make room in the classroom for a third kind of learner. While large language models (LLMs) like Chat GPT are not capable of learning in the messy, human sense, they are increasingly sophisticated. These forms of generative artificial intelligence (AI) “learn” from human inputs, training their algorithms to generate…