While most Michigan-based legal practitioners lack adequate training in Tribal laws, Taylor Elyse Mills, a sixth-year doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Michigan State University and graduate of MSU’s College of Law, sought to do something about this significant gap in our state’s legal education and is now being recognized for her work. In partnership with the Little Traverse Bay Bands…
Nineteen College of Arts & Letters students who are graduating in Spring 2024 have earned Board of Trustees Awards for having maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average during their undergraduate education, which is the highest scholastic average one can attain at the end of their undergraduate career at Michigan State University.
FILMETRY, a film festival that celebrates the union of film and poetry, will give extra emphasis to that union in this year’s festival, when poetry goes to the movies on the page and the screen. As part of the festival, which is free and open to all, 11 short new films adapted from poems informed by films will premiere on…
Michigan State University’s 26th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) will take place Friday, April 12, both online and in person at the Breslin Student Events Center. This hybrid event will feature research projects and creativity from hundreds of undergraduate students at MSU, including many students from the College of Arts & Letters.
The 2024 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, which runs through Sunday, May 26, at Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum, is hosting a reception on Saturday, April 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. to celebrate the creative and scholarly research of MSU’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design MFA candidates whose work is featured in this year’s exhibition.
Danielle Goldberg, who graduated from Michigan State University in Spring 2023 with a B.S. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders and a B.A. in Linguistics and minors in Japanese and Cognitive Science, is now an Assistant Language Teacher through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program at a rural junior high school in Gunma, Japan. Goldberg recently emailed Mariko Kawaguchi, Senior Instructor…
Journey back to late 19th century Germany through a fusion of rock and roll, sexuality, and mortality as Michigan State University's Department of Theatre presents Spring Awakening on April 5-7 and April 10-14 at the Pasant Theatre in the Wharton Center for Performing Arts.
As the 2023-2024 recipient of the College of Arts & Letters’ Legacy Lecture Award, Jyotsna Singh, who recently retired from the Department of English at Michigan State University, will deliver a 60-minute legacy lecture Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Room of the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, following a reception that begins at 6:30 p.m. Professor…
For her outstanding work producing an equity-based art exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces of work from around the world, Nancy DeJoy, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University, is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Creative Activity presented by MSU’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement.The exhibition, titled…
Michael Ristich, Academic Specialist in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures, was appointed Director of the Citizen Scholars Program, effective Jan. 1, 2024. The Citizen Scholars Program, which is open to first- and second-year students with a major in the College of Arts & Letters, is designed to prepare the next generation of diverse, high-achieving, and engaged citizen leaders.…