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CeLTA Receives Two-Year $800,000 Testing Proficiency Grant

June 18, 2015

MSU’s Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) Receives Two-Year $800K Testing Proficiency Grant. Project to evaluate proficiency assessment’s impact on language teaching, and learning. The Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) at Michigan State University (MSU) has received a two-year Language Flagship Proficiency Initiative grant from the Institute of International Education under the National Security Education Program. The project is a…

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New Experience Architecture (XA) Major Delivers on Creating Innovative Digital Solutions

June 17, 2015

Experience Architecture, or XA, is one “hot” and expanding MSU College of Arts & Letters major, and founding faculty members Liza Potts, Rebecca Tegtmeyer and William Hart-Davidson, couldn’t be more pleased with the strong student interest. Tylor Hoekstra, a junior in the XA major, creates a wireframe for a website. Potts, who is XA program director and associate professor in…

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Doctoral Student Wins International Research Title with Language App

June 12, 2015

Laura Gonzales presenting PromptMe at the SIGDOC conference in Ireland. A team of three graduate students in the Rhetoric and Writing program at Michigan State are changing the way language is used in the classroom. Spokesperson for the team, Laura Gonzales, won first place at the annual SIGDOC conference for their application idea, PromptMe, and is now in the running…

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2015 Dean’s Report: Empowering Opportunity and Impact

June 1, 2015

2014/2015 COLLEGE STATS 98 Percent Graduate placement 45 Percent Graduates who have completed study abroad or study away 28 Percent Graduates who have completed internships #1 Study abroad college(80 programs, 40 countries, 6 continents) 1,965 Current major students TOP MSU Faculty Awards such as the Beal, Teacher-Scholar, and Excellence-in-Teaching Awards 52 Majors & Programs IMPACT National Faculty Awards such as…

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Linguistics Senior Awarded Baggett Fellowship

May 29, 2015

A Michigan State University Honors College senior, majoring in linguistics and neuroscience, has been awarded a prestigious Baggett Fellowship. Mina Hirzel will be participating in a one-year post-baccalaureate research fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park. Hirzel has been an undergraduate researcher in MSU's Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages Language Acquisition Lab for the past two…

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Legislator Experience Sharpens Focus on Women/Gender Issues

May 29, 2015

Whitmer uses her real-world experiences to lead a discussion in the Women and the Law class. When former Michigan state legislator Gretchen Whitmer was contacted by Lisa Fine, co-director of the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, about teaching course WS 404, Women and the Law in the United States, Whitmer readily agreed. Term-limited in December 2014, Whitmer served…

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Alumni / News / Student

Theatre Alumna Pays it Forward

May 27, 2015

MSU alumna says partnership between theatre students and Williamston Theatre helps foster successful careers Spend even a few minutes with Emily Sutton-Smith, and it’s obvious that the Theatre alumna is thrilled that the Williamston Theatre, approaching its tenth anniversary season (2015-2016) producing professional live theatre, has found a capable partner in the Michigan State University Department of Theatre. Emily Sutton-Smith, Theatre…

Donor / News

Empowering Tomorrow’s Thinkers

May 21, 2015

$36M RAISED 6,179 DONORS 181% TO GOAL Alumni: 47.4% Friends: 35.9% Corporations: 0.9% Foundations: 7.9% Other: 7.9% SPARTANS STEPPED UP Spartans in various regions stepped up by volunteering and supporting the campaign. Take a look at the below list to see where—and from whom—these gifts came from. MICHIGAN $921.9M • 186,221 donors OUTSIDE MICHIGAN $912.1M • 69,063 donors Atlanta $11.4M • 1,597 donors…

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2015 HASTAC Conference Showcases Newest Generation of Scholars

May 20, 2015

Beginning with a day-long “unconference” for undergraduate and graduate student scholars, and bolstered by three plenary keynote session presentations from early-career academics and professionals, the recent Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference at Michigan State University projected a decidedly youthful, scholarly, forward-thinking vibe. Cathy Davidson, cofounder of HASTAC and Distinguished Professor engages in discussion at the…

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Christopher P. Long Recommended as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters

May 15, 2015

Christopher P. Long has been recommended to serve as the new dean of Michigan State University’s College of Arts and Letters. If approved by the MSU Board of Trustees, his appointment would be effective July 1. Long is associate dean for graduate and undergraduate education and professor of philosophy and classics in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State…