Study Explores Gender Bias in Linguistics, Expands to Multiple Universities

Started in 2017 by Assistant Professor of Linguistics Karthik Durvasula and then-MSU undergraduate student Bethany Dickerson, the Bias in Linguistics project has grown into a multi-university research effort intent on raising awareness of the various forms of bias that affect professional advancement at academic institutions.

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Professor Shares Experience Teaching in Israel While Street Violence Takes Place

Associate Professor Camelia Suleiman spent a semester in Nazareth, Israel, while co-teaching a course at Hebrew University of Jerusalem through Zoom. She's written a reflection on her students and the street violence that has taken place in Israel and the Gaza Strip this past month.

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Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages the Focus of $2.5 Million Grant

Currently, MSU offers instruction in 29 less commonly taught languages, such as Vietnamese, Turkish, and Indonesian. Often the challenge in teaching these languages is having only one or two students at any given university taking a course, and in order to have a full class and higher levels of competency, a critical mass of students is needed across multiple semesters.

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