Krsna Santos
November 2, 2019
Spotlight - Krsna Santos "Umm, it's complicated" is usually the response I give when people ask me "Where are you from?" For many it's a harmless question, they can say…
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100 Years of Bauhaus at MSU
October 14, 2019
October 14-19: Events & Symposium Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. The famous art school influenced a broad range of disciplines including art,…
Pia Banzhaf
October 2, 2019
Spotlight - Pia Banzhaf Before I even could read, a page in my children’s encyclopedia brimming with drawings of inventions for the exploration of the deep sea captured my imagination.…
Thomas Wilkins
September 2, 2019
Spotlight - Thomas Wilkins Although the majority of my classmates in my German courses were pursuing degrees in languages, the arts, or education, I was a minority earning a minor…
Theresa Schenker
May 2, 2019
Spotlight - Theresa Schenker Ever since I can remember I wanted to become a teacher. It is no surprise perhaps - coming from a family of teachers - that my…
Johanna Schuster-Craig
April 2, 2019
Spotlight: Johanna Schuster-Craig My name is very German. My American parents named me “Yo-hanna,” and have always used the European pronunciation. When I was a small child, I remember often…
Handelman publishes The Mathematical Imagination
March 5, 2019
Professor Matthew Handelman's monograph, The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory appeared in March 2019 with Fordham University Press. Book cover From the publisher: This book…
Jenny Gohlke
March 2, 2019
Spotlight - Jenny Gohlke Goethe's Faust, that is how it all started. Maybe. In fact, I do not remember when exactly I came to love German Literature so much. Books have…
Sarah Scarbrough
March 2, 2019
Spotlight - Sarah Scarbrough : During my first few weeks here at MSU, after telling people my major, I got a lot of “oh… interesting,” in response. But as the weeks…
Christian Klein
February 2, 2019
Spotlight - Christian Klein No one ever asked my friends, who intended to study medicine or engineering, for the reasons of their choices. But I was always asked why I…