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Long View Blog: No Quality Without Equity

November 11, 2019

In October 2019, I attended a three-day workshop on Driving Institutional Change for Research Assessment Reform jointly convened by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) on the beautiful HHMI campus in Chevy Chase, Maryland. My time with the 60 or so participants in the workshop, which included researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, members of learned societies, and a wide range of colleagues…

Barb Miller Honored with Research Administrator Award

November 8, 2019

Barb Miller, Research Administrator for the College of Arts & Letters, has received the Fall 2019 Unit Research Administrator Spotlight Award in recognition of her professional contributions and quality of service. Recipients of the award play an integral role in advancing MSU’s research mission and lead by example. Miller has worked for MSU for 10 years, of which the past…

Alumni / Featured Alumni / News

Alumna Leads Corporate Programs at the Aspen Institute

November 5, 2019

Alumna Nancy McGaw, who graduated from the Honors College at Michigan State University in 1969 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English, is now Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP) where she leads corporate programs designed to cultivate leaders and align businesses with the long-term health of society. “The people I work with are…

Exhibition / Faculty / News

Art Exhibit Upcycles Plastic Waste to Address Environmental Issues

November 4, 2019

An art installation by three MSU faculty members is helping bring awareness to the issues surrounding environmentally harmful plastics and our societal dependence on them. The exhibition, Care. Not Convenience, which bridges art, design, science, and community engagement to foster dialogue on the role of plastic in our lives, will open at SCENE (Metrospace) November 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. and will…

Event / News

Register Now for 5th Annual Accessible Learning Conference

November 1, 2019

Michigan State University is set to host the 5th Annual Accessible Learning Conference (ALC) November 21-22 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. This year’s conference theme, “Storytelling,” is inspired by an increased awareness of accessibility here at MSU and in workplaces across the country. As interest in accessibility in both higher education and other industries increases, the ALC Planning Committee hopes to…

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Alumni / Featured Alumni / News

Alumna Helping Students Succeed Beyond High School

October 30, 2019

Alumna Angela Magbag, who graduated from Michigan State University in May 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in English, is now an advisor for MSU’s College Advising Corps (MSUCAC), which places recent MSU graduates in high schools throughout the state of Michigan to serve alongside counselors and other college-access organizations. Magbag joined the program knowing firsthand how it affects students…

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Alumna is a Pioneer of Co-Working Spaces in Detroit

October 30, 2019

Alumna Amanda Lewan, who graduated from Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters with a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing, is the co-founder and CEO of Bamboo Detroit, the first co-working space in Downtown Detroit. When did you start Bamboo Detroit? I started Bamboo Detroit in August of 2013. At the time, we were the first co-working space…

News / Performance

Award-Winning Director Returns as Guest Director of MSU’s ‘Twelfth Night’

October 29, 2019

Award-winning playwright, director, and actor Gus Kaikkonen returns to Lansing as a guest director for the Michigan State University Department of Theatre production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, running November 8-17 in the Auditorium building’s Arena Theatre. Kaikkonen directed, acted in, or wrote more than a dozen BoarsHead Theater shows, including three separate productions of his play Time Steps. The BoarsHead Theater was mid-Michigan’s oldest…

Faculty / News

In Memoriam: Kimi Nakatsukasa

October 28, 2019

The College of Arts & Letters is saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Dr. Kimi Nakatsukasa, who earned her Ph.D. from the Second Language Studies Program in 2013. In her dissertation she investigated the effectiveness of teachers' gestures when used during oral corrections in ESL classrooms. Her other research interests included interactions in language classrooms, teachers' and students' gestures, learners'…

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Event / Faculty / News / Programs

Department of Theatre Creates Accessible Audio Resource for Shakespeare Fans

October 24, 2019

MSU Department of Theatre Assistant Professor Deric McNish and his students have been hard at work on a new project with Shakespeare as their muse and The Winter’s Tale at its center.Their goal was to create an accessible and informative audio resource for students, actors, and other Shakespeare lovers involving elements of live performance, audio performance, digital dissemination of the performance, and podcasts with experts. “I see this as…