While earning undergraduate degrees in French and Philosophy, Paula Winke was inspired to blend her interests in language learning, research, and social justice. Today, she’s an applied linguist, researching the ethics and…
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…
COVID-19 has had a major impact on people around the world, but how is the pandemic changing our language and the way we communicate? That is the question being studied by a team of researchers at Michigan State University, led by Associate Professor Suzanne Wagner and Assistant Professor Betsy Sneller.
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…
In an effort to promote equal access to information and spaces for all, MSU Libraries have awarded nine MSU faculty members funding assistance for the creation and adaption of open…
Paula Winke, Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, has been appointed Director of the Second Language Studies Program in the College of Arts &…
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.
Jonathan Choti and two doctoral students, Pauline Wambua and Ja’La Wourman, collectively received the 2020 Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship (EAIS) for their 2019 study abroad project, Sustainable Community Development in Tanzania. Choti was the faculty leader of the program whose curriculum included teaching, research, and service.
Suzanne Evans Wagner isn’t telling people how to talk. She’s here to say that people have options and reasons for talking the way they do. An Associate Professor of Linguistics in MSU’s…
Growing up in the United States, Rika Wakai enjoyed learning about Japan, her ancestral home and the country from which her parents migrated to the United States before she was…