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Read more about the article Emily Jenkins Awarded PW Outstanding Major Award
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Emily Jenkins Awarded PW Outstanding Major Award

May 1, 2019

Emily Jenkins Emily Jenkins is the 2019 recipient of the Professional Writing (PW) Outstanding Major Award, with honorable mentions going to Ellyse St. John and Timothy Snyder. Presented by the Department…

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Read more about the article Students Awarded Alumni Endowed Book Scholarships
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Students Awarded Alumni Endowed Book Scholarships

May 1, 2019

Nine College of Arts & Letters students each were awarded a $500 scholarship from the Alumni Endowed Student Book Scholarship and Robert L. Fiore Student Book Scholarship funds as a…

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Building Healthcare Collectives Project to Host Symposium

March 27, 2019

As part of a $140,000 grant from Humanities Without Walls (HWW), the Building Healthcare Collectives (BHC) project is holding an interdisciplinary health services research symposium in East Lansing, Michigan, April 11-13 at…

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Read more about the article Using Participatory Approaches to Support Students and the Homeless
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Using Participatory Approaches to Support Students and the Homeless

March 5, 2019

Benjamin Lauren, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), is working to help reduce the social stigma associated with homelessness and, drawing from his research on…

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Read more about the article XA Student Finds Her Passion Through the Digital Scholarship Lab
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XA Student Finds Her Passion Through the Digital Scholarship Lab

February 12, 2019

As the first-ever intern for MSU’s Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL), Erin Campbell, a senior Experience Architecture major with minors in Spanish and Digital Humanities, had the opportunity to research a topic of…

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Podcast: The Art of Storytelling Through Film

January 14, 2019

On the latest episode of The Liberal Arts Endeavor, a podcast by Michigan State University's College of Arts & Letters, host Dean Christopher P. Long discusses the art of storytelling through…

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New Course Teaches How to Ethically Record and Edit Sound

January 7, 2019

A new course offered by Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC) is teaching students how to use audio technology to record and edit sounds ethically and rhetorically, and to help…

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‘Illuminating Survivor Voices’ Through the Arts

November 20, 2018

A poem by Associate Professor Nancy DeJoy, addressing the issue of silence in cases of sexual abuse and how the isolation and silencing of survivor voices is detrimental to the…

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Spartan Strong: The Strength to Overcome Cancer

November 14, 2018

Growing up in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Justin Alexander was the picture of health. A baseball player and quarterback of his high school football team, there was no reason to be…

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Read more about the article A Leading Sherlock Holmes Website Finds a Home at MSU
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A Leading Sherlock Holmes Website Finds a Home at MSU

July 30, 2018

When an important online resource about the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes was looking for a new home or faced the possibility of being taken down, Liza Potts, Associate Professor of…

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