Pia Banzhaf

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.…

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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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