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…
Crossing both cultural and language barriers, two MSU Arabic classes are gaining true conversational experience through the creation of an Arabic language conversation program that pairs students with Arabic-speaking refugees from Syria. Each student in the ARB 201 and 401 classes taught by Assistant Professors of Arabic Camelia Suleiman and Cheng-Wei Lin was set up with a Skype account to communicate with…
Recognized for her foundational work as an Indigenous video game designer, MSU Assistant Professor Elizabeth LaPensée was selected by the multimedia science and tech publication, Motherboard, as a “Human of the Year,” an honor reserved for a select few individuals who are building a better future for everyone through science and technology. With its “Humans of the Year” series, Motherboard aims to “focus…
Living “in-between” is not easy, but MFA Graphic Design student Mehrdad Sedaghat Bachabani is using that to his advantage by leveraging his multinational experiences and graphic design background to make the most of living within two vastly different cultures. Since moving to East Lansing a year and a half ago, Sedaghat has curated an exhibit that brought artwork from his hometown of…
As we navigate the intense period of transformation in human communication through which we are living, identifying ways to nurture sustainable communities through which scholarship can be shared, discovered, and enhanced gains urgency.
Christine Radtke will begin as the new Senior Director of Development for the College of Arts & Letters on Monday, December 18. Radtke comes to MSU from Chicago where she’s had a robust career as a senior development professional. Christine Radtke "I am thrilled to join the College of Arts & Letters in the midst of a fundraising campaign that…