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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…

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Wanderlust and Stellar Standing of RCS Fuels Journey to MSU

March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 At age 29, Alejandro (Alex) Osorio-Hernandez is already an accomplished international graduate student and traveler. But then, with a B.A., two M.A.s—one each from universities on two different continents—and scholarly research interests covering medieval travel writing, Spanish travelers to the Holy Land, and medieval monasticism, it sort of goes with the territory. Currently an MSU Ph.D. student and teacher in the…

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Learning Mandarin from Birds

March 16, 2016

Catherine Ryu, associate professor of Japanese literature and culture, has received a patent for the technology behind her languagelearning game, Picky Birds. Scholars of the Mandarin Chinese language can learn a lot from birds. That’s the premise of a new language learning game designed by a Michigan State University researcher and an interdisciplinary team of students. Inspired by the varying tones…

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Student’s Interdisciplinary Studies Combine Philosophy and Community Sustainability

March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-63bBkfO7c&feature=emb_title After practicing as an interdisciplinary environmental scholar and teacher for 10 years, Bethany Laursen switched fields to study theories of interdisciplinarity itself, which led her to Michigan State University where she is pursuing both an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Community Sustainability. “At MSU, I have the freedom to sit in two colleges and have committees that work across disciplines,”…

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium

March 9, 2016

MSU Hosting First Global Digital Humanities Symposium MSU’s Digital Humanities Program is hosting its first symposium on global digital humanities with a focus on the Global South on April 8 and 9 at Michigan State University. The two-day symposium will address how interdisciplinary practices of digital humanities can and should speak to the global cultural record and the contemporary situation of…

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Best of Show: Students Earn Top Award at Mid-Michigan ADDYs

March 3, 2016

Two Graphic Design students took home the top student prize at the Mid-Michigan American Advertising Awards (ADDYs). Department of Art, Art History, and Design students Malarie French and Will Mianecki received the overall Student Best of Show Award as well as a Gold ADDY for their CATA redesign project, which was entered in the Integrated Campaigns category. French is a…

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March 2, 2016

Early last fall, our Director of Marketing and Communications, Ryan Kilcoyne, came to me with a pressing issue that required a decanal decision.