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NEWS
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SAVE THE DATE! The Residential College in the Arts and Humanities will celebrate the graduation of its first four-year class on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. This is an event for the entire RCAH community, including all students, faculty and staff. Mark your calendars!
 RCAH professor Eric Aronoff has won an MSU Teacher-Scholar Award in recognition of his devotion to and skill in teaching. Professor Aronoff received a BA in comparative literature from Princeton University, where he concentrated in German and Hebrew literature. He then became a charter member of Teach for America and spent three years teaching middle school in the South Bronx and Baltimore. He returned to graduate school to earn his PhD in English at Rutgers University. His research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, anthropology, and theories of culture, race and nation, literature and the environment, and science fiction. His current book project, Composing Culture: American Literature, Criticism, and the Problem of Culture, 1915-1941, traces the debates over the idea of "culture" circulating among artists, literary critics, and anthropologists in the early twentieth century. His work has appeared in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, and the Willa Cather Society Newsletter and Review. At left: Professor Aronoff receives his award from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon.
RCAH student Carlee Forbes recently discussed her experiences in Mali as part of the MSU Federal Credit Union's annual Study Abroad luncheon. Carlee was one of two MSU student speakers; Dean Esquith also spoke on the civic engagement aspects of study abroad. The RCAH has become an admired campus leader in Study Abroad programs.
RCAH student Arielle Labrecque is blogging about her semester in Rome. Read all about her adventures in the Eternal City as they happen at www.writingrome.blogspot.com.
STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES
RCAH seniors: The deadline for sharing your ideas with the Commencement Committee has been extended to MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21. If you are a graduating senior and would like to take part in the student presentation portion of the Spring 2011 commencement ceremony, please write a proposal describing what you would like to do, how you would like to do it, who (if anyone) you'll be doing it with, and any technical assistance you'll need. Be creative. Collaborate. Share what the RCAH has meant to you. Please email your proposal to Pam Newsted in the RCAH office, or drop it off with her in C210 Snyder Hall.
Interested in studying abroad in Costa Rica this summer? Come to an information meeting for both prospective and confirmed Costa Rica study abroad participants on Thursday, February 24, at 6:00 p.m. in the RCAH conference room (C210 Snyder). If you are a confirmed participant for this program and cannot attend this meeting, please get in touch with Vince Delgado. An additional meeting to discuss logistics will be held following the March 1 study abroad deadline. That meeting will include discussions of flight arrangements, program fees, course materials, itineraries, and pre-course language proficiency testing, among other things. The current estimated program fee has been set at $3,447.30 with a personal cost estimate (including airfare) of $1,911. A final fee will be set just after the March 1 deadline. There will also be an official course meeting in mid-April to discuss pre-trip reading assignments. Question? Contact Vince Delgado at (517) 884-1940 or delgado1@msu.edu.
The 13th Annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) will take place on April 8 in the MSU Union. This is a great opportunity to showcase your scholarship and creative activities in a conference-like venue through poster or oral presentation or performance. Individuals or groups up to four may participate. Approximately 535 students from 14 colleges and 282 faculty mentors participated in last year's event. See more details at www.urca.msu.edu/uuraf and register online by FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25.
The Center for Poetry announces the Annie Balocating Prize for Poetry, an award of $500 that will be made annually starting this semester. Any undergraduate currently enrolled at MSU is eligible to submit poems for the prize. The award is in honor of Annie Balocating, a poet and alumna of MSU's ROIAL program. The deadline is FRIDAY, MARCH 18. Click here for more information and rules.
RCAH COUNCIL NEWS
The RCAH Council meets on Monday nights from 8:00-9:00 p.m. in C220 Snyder. All students are invited to attend. For information about the RCAH Council, visit http://rcah.msu.edu/groups/council.
The RCAH Council is sponsoring a haiku contest! Submit your best haiku about the RCAH to the Council's Facebook page by February 25 for a chance to win a gift card to the Wanderer's Tea House.
EVENTS For a complete list of upcoming events, please visit the RCAH website.
"Rethinking Hmong American Studies" -- Screening of Gran Torino (2008); screening and panel discussion of The Spirit Catches You; panel discussion with actors and production staff of Gran Torino; spoken word performance by Elvis Thao Thursday, February 24, and Friday, February 25 For an event schedule, click here. Premiere: "Bad Company" -- A documentary film produced by MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism that examines the history of invasive species in the Great Lakes Monday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. Video introduction and event invitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa9mbKPYmQ. Workshop with Jane Cloutier, book artist and paper sculptor Wednesday, March 2, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., RCAH Art Studio Limited to 15 participants; to RSVP, send an email message to RCAHcouncil@gmail.com. | 
