Michigan State University received a 2023 Responsible Computing Challenge Award for $150,000 from the Mozilla Foundation to center African perspectives in technology course/curriculum redesign.The 12-month project, “Reimagining Information Communication Technology…
“Sustainable Community Development in Tanzania” (SCDT) is a six-week summer education abroad program that takes place in northern Tanzania. Started in 2013 by MSU’s Tanzania Partnership Program (TPP), SCDT brings…
Encouraging critical engagement through art with the past, present, or future, the CREATE! Microgrant program recently awarded $500 grants to 13 Michigan State University students to fund their proposed creative…
When the United States government advised American citizens to leave the Russian Federation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, plans for students to study abroad in Russia had to be discontinued…
Joanne Koh has won a highly competitive and prestigious dissertation support award from Mango, which is a company that provides online language learning support and platforms. In addition to obtaining support from Mango for her work, her dissertation work has also been included as an honorable mention from the TIRF. Joanne’s dissertation investigates how adult Korean learners of English watch English language TV shows on Netflix. She is interested in how the learners use captions when they watch, as well as their motivations for turning captions on or leaving them off while viewing. By tracking learners’ viewing habits and patterns, along with their learning of new vocabulary, Joanne can see the benefits of extended viewing at home.
Several language instructors from the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures have been teaming up with the Abrams Planetarium to offer planetarium shows to their students in German and in…
The College of Arts & Letters celebrated its 2023 Support Staff Award winners at the Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception on Sept. 18 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.The…
MSU was recently awarded a second round of funding for a STARTALK professional development program for Chinese language teachers in the United States. Second Language Studies PhD student Matt Coss is the Lead Instructor for this program. In his capacity as Lead Instructor for MSU’s STARTALK program, he has developed (along with other program team members) a series of 120 hours of synchronous and asynchronous online and face-to-face professional learning experiences for in-service Chinese language teachers from all over the United States.
This year, 20 faculty members within the College of Arts & Letters have received promotions. The success of these individuals was celebrated during the 2023 Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception on Sept. 18…
The College of Arts & Letters honored its 2023 Faculty Award winners at the College’s Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception on Sept. 18 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.The…