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CAL Alumni Association Presents Faculty Awards

April 22, 2016

Joined by the College of Arts & Letters Alumni Association Board (photo bottom right), and CAL staff members, Acting Dean Elizabeth H. Simmons presented the 2015 CAL Alumni Association Faculty Awards at a brunch and awards ceremony conducted Saturday, April 11 at the Kellogg Center. Award winners left to right with Dean Simmons (second from right) are: Chair of the…

MSU assistant professor of English Natalie Phillips headed a study in which a person's brain flow was monitored while reading the works of Jane Austen. Preliminary results indicate reading activates regions of the brain not necessarily devoted strictly to reading.

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Faculty Honored for Research in Literary Neuroscience

March 4, 2015

Natalie Phillips, assistant professor of English at Michigan State University, has been awarded a Digital Innovation Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. One of only seven scholars to receive such an award, the council recognized Phillips’ research on literary cognition. In a recent study, subjects read the works of Jane Austen while researchers measured their brain flow in an MRI. Preliminary…