Two incoming first-year College of Arts & Letters students have been awarded Michigan State University’s highly competitive Alumni Distinguished Scholarships, which cover full tuition, room and board, and a stipend…
Several language instructors from the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures have been teaming up with the Abrams Planetarium to offer planetarium shows to their students in German and in…
Students at MSU have many choices when it comes to studying abroad, and MSU offers many education abroad programs through which students can study languages. In this story, we will…
MSU and German Program alumna Kelsey Prediger recently established her own non-governmental organization, the Pangolin Conservation and Research Foundation (PCRF).
Given recent climate and weather-related events in Germany and the COP 26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November, the German Program selected “Climate Change and Multilateralism” as the special theme for its advanced skill building courses (GRM 420 Advanced German and GRM 311 Business German) in Fall 2021.
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With Professor Johannes von Moltke from the University of Michigan, German Professor Johanna Schuster-Craig has published "Like: Memetic Analogies in Social Media" in the online journal Geschichte der Gegenwart. Memes…
MSU alumnus Josh York first became interested in creating his own clothing when he was in middle school. He started by making T-shirts with his mom and sold them to…
Lynn Wolff’s desire to teach and to do it well threads throughout her quest to work and participate in a lifetime of learning. Just recently, she devoted a full academic year to refining her teaching and leadership abilities as a participant in the Lilly Teaching Fellowship program. As a 2019-20 fellow, Wolff joined a cohort of 16 MSU faculty and academic specialists to engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary work as Lilly or Adams Academy Fellows.
Professor of German Thomas Lovik, who recently retired from MSU's Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, is the 2019 recipient of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Post-Secondary Teacher Award. He…
Spotlight - Sophia Cheng There is a common motivational saying that goes along the lines of “it's the journey, not the destination that matters”. Every journey has its turns and…