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Varg-Sullivan Graduate Award Winners Announced

May 2, 2022

Each year, the College of Arts & Letters presents two Varg-Sullivan Endowed Graduate Awards to graduate students for their outstanding achievement in the arts or letters. This year’s winners are Emma Creamer, Outstanding Achievement in the Arts recipient, and Ye Ma, Outstanding Achievement in the Letters recipient. Paul Varg and Richard Sullivan are former Deans of the College of Arts…

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Alumnus Using His Linguistics Degree as a Language Engineer at Amazon

March 13, 2019

Patrick Kelley received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MSU in May 2018 and currently works at Amazon as a language engineer, where he works with technologies to improve Amazon’s Alexa, a form of artificial intelligence. Could you give a basic job description of your position at Amazon? I am a language engineer at Amazon, where my day-to-day changes almost every…