Global Digital Humanities Symposium

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

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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Alumni Feature: Jack Epps Jr.

If there’s one skill separating the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it’s the ability to successfully rewrite. Now, from MSU College of Arts & Letters alumnus Jack Epps Jr. (B.A. English ‘72) comes Screenwriting is Rewriting (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), a comprehensive guide that explores the many layers of rewriting.  Epps is currently associate professor and chair of Writing for Screen & Television…

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Excellence in Diversity

A College of Arts & Letters student was recognized for exhibiting diversity and inclusion in extraordinary ways as a recipient of one of the 2016 All-University Excellence in Diversity Awards.  Joyce-Zoe Farley, a second-year doctoral student in African American and African Studies and University Fellow, received this year’s Making a Difference Through Artistic Expression Award by using her creative talents to artistically express…

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Legacy Continues Through Endowed Chair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIn35Xtyyg&feature=emb_title These days, Kyle Whyte is thinking about past and future generations. As a philosopher and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Whyte came to Michigan State University in the hope of addressing climate change and environmental issues, specifically within communities and tribal nations. Whyte, a professor and inaugural Timnick Chair in the Humanities within the MSU College of Arts & Letters,…

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Practicing Inclusion as a Matter of Institutional Habit

By Dean Christopher P. Long on February 16, 2016 on cplong.org Institutions of higher education across the country have long talked about diversity and inclusion. Many have established offices of equity or inclusion and hired staff to ensure that the institution is living up to its promise to foster an inclusive culture.  At Michigan State University, inclusiveness is one of the three core…

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Grant Provides Critical Support for International Student Transitions

Now in its third year, the International Student Mentorship Program, created and run by English Language Center (ELC) Instructor Alissa Cohen, was recently awarded a 2015-16 Continuing Inclusive Excellence Grant (CIEG) by MSU. CIEG support includes non-recurring funding of projects, programs, and proposals to create and support an inclusive university. This is the first year the Mentorship Program has received…

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Women of Color Initiatives Lecture: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be visiting MSU on Friday, February 12, 2015, and will be giving a talk at 3:00 in B342 Wells titled "Visionary Daughtering: An Intimate Intellectual and Activist Archive." "This interactive lecture will activate the concept of Visionary Daughtering as a description of the ongoing co-construction of freedom between/as black women and girls. Drawing on her…

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MSUFCU Dean’s Grant Challenge Program Over $5,000 in Prizes

MSU Federal Credit Union has a core value of Giving Back to the Community, which providing financial education and improving financial literacy in the communities we serve plays a major role. We offer financial seminars, offer financial education programs for various groups in the community, provide resources online and in the branches, and recently have created a financial education app…

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