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College of Arts & Letters Graduates Earn 4.0 GPA Board of Trustees Awards

April 25, 2022

Ten College of Arts & Letters students are graduating this May with perfect 4.0 GPAs and received Board of Trustees’ Awards for having achieved the highest scholastic average one can…

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Read more about the article Assistant Professor of Hebrew wins MSU Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad
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Assistant Professor of Hebrew wins MSU Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad

April 14, 2022

Dr. Yore Kedem, who leads the Jewish Studies Summer Program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was honored with MSU’s Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad.

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Student View: A ‘Salaam’ to the Spartan Community

April 5, 2022

George Azar is a first-generation Syrian American student in his third year at Michigan State University, majoring in Human Biology and Arabic with minors in Bioethics and Entrepreneurship and Innovation.…

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Read more about the article LiLaC Faculty Promote Open Pedagogy Beyond MSU
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LiLaC Faculty Promote Open Pedagogy Beyond MSU

April 1, 2022

The world of language teaching has faced enormous challenges in delivering quality education due to the abrupt transition to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the major challenges…

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Linguistics Student Wins at Social Justice Art Festival

February 16, 2022

Diana Cisneros, a junior majoring in Linguistics, won the Most Out-Of-The-Box Award at MSU’s fifth annual Social Justice Art Festival (SJAF) for her painting, titled Mikia Nemi Tunal Tit (The…

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Read more about the article Doctoral Graduate Raises the Bar for African Language Instruction
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Doctoral Graduate Raises the Bar for African Language Instruction

December 10, 2021

Although specific to African languages, Magdalyne “Maggie” Oguti Akiding’s approach to second language instruction could be adapted to teach most any foreign language and is raising the bar for African…

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Read more about the article Ph.D. Student Wins Richard Pemberton Prize for Best Research Paper
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Ph.D. Student Wins Richard Pemberton Prize for Best Research Paper

December 9, 2021

Ayşen Tuzcu, a Ph.D. student in MSU’s Second Language Studies program, has won the Richard Pemberton Prize awarded by the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), which recognizes the best research paper…

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Read more about the article SLS Ph.D. Student Receives MwALT Best Paper Award
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SLS Ph.D. Student Receives MwALT Best Paper Award

December 8, 2021

Dylan Burton, a third year Ph.D. student in MSU’s Second Language Studies Program, received the 2021 Best Student Paper Award by the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) for his…

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German Studies Alumna Earns Women in German Dissertation Prize

December 7, 2021

Melissa Elliot, who earned a Ph.D. in German Studies from Michigan State University, recently was awarded the Women in German Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, Forgotten Notes: Narrative Film Music…

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Recent English Alumna Receives Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor

July 14, 2021

Recent College of Arts & Letters alumna, Amanda Ling, who was a member of Michigan State University’s Varsity Swim and Dive team, received this year’s Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, which…

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