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Two CAL Faculty Appointed Co-Editors for TESOL Quarterly

December 12, 2016

Professor Charlene Polio Two Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages faculty members have been appointed Co-editors for TESOL Quarterly (TQ), the academic journal for the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) International Association. Starting in 2017, Professor Charlene Polio and Assistant Professor Peter De Costa will become Associate Co-editors of TQ, and in 2018 they will…

1st place award winning mural by Malarie French and Will Mianecki

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Graphic Design Students Design Panda Express Murals

December 7, 2016

1st place award winning mural by Malarie French and Will Mianecki Three Department of Art, Art History, and Design students have designed murals that are now on permanent display in the newest Panda Express restaurant, located on Grand River Ave. in East Lansing. Malarie French, Graphic Design and Packaging double major, and Will Mianecki, Graphic Design and Professional Writing double…

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Conference Showcases MSU Leadership in Accessibility

December 6, 2016

In only its second year, the Making Learning Accessible Conference hosted at Michigan State University has doubled in size and expanded its scope. The conference, held December 2 at MSU’s Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, celebrates and explores accessibility with the goal of providing a broad range of information and ideas to help participants design universally accessible courses, websites and…

Tim Busfield and Melissa Gilbert at Michigan State University

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MSU Media Arts Collaborative Inspiring Filmmakers

December 5, 2016

Students in an Introduction to Filmmaking class had the extraordinary opportunity to hear from an Emmy award-winning actor as well as the former President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) who also happens to have her own Hollywood Star. Actor, Director and Producer Timothy Busfield, who won an Emmy Award for his work on the television series Thirtysomething, was joined byActor,…

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Finding Her Place at a Global Institution

December 5, 2016

Kiana Elkins, junior Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities major and Women and Gender Studies and Peace and Justice Studies minor, has taken advantage of everything MSU has to offer, including student scholarships, study abroad, and several interesting extracurricular opportunities.Why did you come to MSU?I moved back to Michigan from Florida my senior year of high school, and I…

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Putting the Liberal Arts into Action

December 5, 2016

Sometimes in our efforts to advocate for the importance of a liberal arts education, we fail to demonstrate what it means to put the arts of liberty into practice. It’s easier to speak about the values of critical thinking, ethical imagination, excellent communication, and global interconnection...

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Exhibition / News / Student

Maria Novotny: Art as Advocacy

December 2, 2016

Maria Novotny is a fourth-year doctoral student in the College of Arts and Letters. A co-director of The ART of Infertility, she travels the world exhibiting stories of infertility. She fuses her academic research with community outreach by offering art and creative writing workshops to infertile individuals. In 2011, I received what most 25-year-old women don’t expect: an infertility diagnosis. I remember…

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Register Now for MSU Arts Weekend June 2020

November 29, 2016

Photographs from 127 students from 39 different countries are now on display in Gallery 101 of Kresge Art Center through Friday, December 9. The photos represent the skills learned and work completed as part of a five-course specialization, Photography Basics and Beyond: From Smartphone to DSLR, offered online by Michigan State University through Coursera, an online education provider that partners…

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Scholarships Help Make Paris Internship Possible

November 23, 2016

When choosing what university to attend, the deciding factor for Jack Weyhrich was the study abroad opportunities available at Michigan State University. Weyhrich, now a second-year student with senior status and a dual major in French and Economics, spent this past summer in Paris doing an internship abroad. He worked with MSU’s Office of Study Abroad (OSA) to find a…

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Margaret Born Earns Mitchell Scholarship

November 22, 2016

Joel Arnold, a recent Michigan State University graduate with degrees in social relations and policy from James Madison College and urban and regional planning from the College of Social Science; and Margaret Born, an Honors College senior majoring in comparative cultures and politics in James Madison College and Arabic in the College of Arts and Letters, are two of 12…