During the Fall semester 2015 the German Program in the Department of Linguistics and Languages will offer a semester-long series of events on the legacy of unification. These events, which are generously underwritten by a grant from the German Embassy, will explore various aspects of the unification process itself as well as the issues that have confronted the newly configured…
The Experience Architecture (XA) program at Michigan State University is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary major in the Humanities focused on user experience. Through the exploration and building of products, services, and policies of digital and physical objects, students are trained as user experience architects, usability specialists, user researchers, information architects, interaction designers, content strategists, project managers, and developers of digital products,…
Current exhibition: Place in Proximity East Lansing’s (SCENE) Metrospace reopened at an evening reception, Friday, September 18, at 110 Charles Street under operation of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University. The City had closed the space in April. In June, East Lansing city leaders announced an agreement for MSU to take over programming and…
Written by: Kristen Parker and Kyle WhyteHoping to improve Native American tribes’ access to climate science tools, a Michigan State University researcher will use a four-year $450,000 National Science Foundation grant to foster better relations between tribes and scientific organizations when dealing with climate change. Tribes are among the groups most affected by climate change, and they’re also some of the…
Written by: Kristen Parker and Kyle WhyteHoping to improve Native American tribes’ access to climate science tools, a Michigan State University researcher will use a four-year $450,000 National Science Foundation grant to foster better relations between tribes and scientific organizations when dealing with climate change. Tribes are among the groups most affected by climate change, and they’re also some of the…
Graham Beal Graham Beal, former director, president and CEO of the Detroit Institute of Arts, has been appointed Visiting Hannah Distinguished Professor for this academic year, the most prestigious faculty appointment at the university. With an appointment in the Department of Art, Art History and Design in the College of Arts and Letters, Beal will also serve as senior adviser to the provost. Beal…
William and Audrey Farber and their family EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Michigan State University’s newly created William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History, funded by a $1.5 million private gift, will be one of just a handful of Holocaust Studies chairs in the country, one of four in the Big Ten and the first…
Over the course of her career, including 23 years at Michigan State University, Janet Swenson has witnessed and accomplished a great deal while positively impacting a generation of students, teachers and writers. The former associate professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC) and associate dean of Outreach and Community Engagement in the College of Arts & Letters retired August…
For some outsiders, Detroit neighborhoods appear burdened, disheartened, and broken. But Michigan State alumnus Anthony Hatinger knows otherwise, and has joined the movement to empower opportunity within Detroit communities using his determination, knowledge, and passion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCe9YnapkXw&feature=emb_title From Classroom to Community “It’s always been a place of innovation and a place of great challenges,” says Hatinger, who has seen Detroit communities…
Dear College of Arts & Letters students, As the new Dean of the College of Arts & Letters it is my pleasure to welcome you to Michigan State University. Many of you have already experienced the network of pathways that figure prominently throughout the MSU campus.