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Examining Social and Cultural Unrest

April 18, 2016

Many people assume Osama bin Laden killed Americans on Sept. 11 because most Americans are non-Muslim, but his primary motivation was actually a warped eye-for-an-eye worldview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusBm76pDoc&feature=emb_title That’s according to Mohammad Khalil, director of Michigan State University’s Muslim Studies Program and associate professor of religious studies in the College of Arts & Letters, who taught a new class this semester, “Islam, Radicalism and…

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Seven MSU Students Win Arabic Flagship Scholarship

April 18, 2016

Seven Arabic students from Michigan State University have won Flagship Scholarships, which will allow them to spend a year in Morocco at the Arabic Flagship site to advance their Arabic learning. While in Morocco, the students will have the opportunity to take courses at Moulay Ismail University and to do an internship, in addition to the intensive classes in Arabic.…

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Religious Studies Student Wins National Award

April 15, 2016

College of Arts & Letters senior Joshua Schnell has won a National Science Foundation Award (NSF) from the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Schnell is an Honors College senior double majoring in Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Letters and Anthropology in the College of Social Science. Close to 17,000 students applied for this year's NSF awards with only…

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De Costa Presented with Emerging Scholar Award

April 15, 2016

Peter De Costa, assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, has earned the 2016 Emerging Scholar Award of the Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The Emerging Scholar Award recognizes outstanding scholarship among doctoral students and recent graduates. De Costa earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Second Language Acquisition…

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CAL Students to Present at UURAF

April 6, 2016

University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF), which is the highest representation of any college on campus. Of those CAL students, 87 also are Honors College students. This year’s UURAF takes place Friday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the MSU Union. The forum includes poster and oral presentations by undergraduate research teams from all areas of study. Sponsored by…

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Paris Fashion Week Internship Exposes Student to Fashion

April 4, 2016

Glitz, glamour, high-end fashion, big-name designers and runway models coupled with the behind-the-scenes controlled chaos of one of the world’s most prominent fashion weeks – a College of Arts & Letters student recently got to experience this world of luxury fashion during Paris Fashion Week. As the winner of the MSU Malone Souliers Business Strategy Challenge, Carlo Pardo, a double major in Apparel…

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Russian Professor Receives AT&T Instructional Technology Award of Excellence

April 1, 2016

Two courses taught by Shannon Spasova, assistant professor of Russian Studies, are being recognized among the best at Michigan State University when it comes to incorporating technology in ways that enhance teaching and learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nsOIfjrq1c&feature=emb_title Spasova has been named the 2016 recipient of the MSU AT&T Instructional Technology Award of Excellence for Best Course in Technology-Enhanced Learning Innovation for the study abroad modules she…

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Hispanic Cultural Studies Students Present at César Chávez Celebration

March 28, 2016

Two Ph.D. students in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies will be among the presenters at the 6th Annual César E. Chávez Commemorative Celebration on Friday, April 1, at Michigan State University. Jose Adrian Badillo Carlos, a second-year doctoral student in Hispanic Cultural Studies, will be one of the featured speakers at the event. In addition, he will be joined by Osvaldo…

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Symposium Focuses on Refugee Crisis

March 25, 2016

As the war in Syria continues to turn out more refugees each day and the number of people forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution soars to a global all-time high, MSU’s Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages is hosting a symposium to discuss the issues surrounding the refugee crisis. The MSU Refugee Symposium, scheduled for April 1 and…

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Professor Chosen for Competitive NEH Summer Stipend

March 24, 2016

Professor of English Jyotsna Singh has been selected to receive the highly competitive Summer Stipend award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Singh will use the award to complete the manuscript for her book, Transcultural Islam: Muslim and Christian Identities in the Early Modern World. Drawing on postcolonial theory, global exchange, and early modern history of Islam and Christianity, Singh’s book looks at the…