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RCAH senior Abigail Rodriguez is one of six undergraduates and two alumni nominated for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship by Michigan State University.
RCAH senior Abigail Rodriguez is among five MSU students nominated for the U.S. Rhodes Scholarship this year.
Senior RCAH Communications Intern Jess Watley reflects on her life-changing summer Student Undergraduate Laboratory Internship at the oldest national laboratory in the U.S.
RCAH associate professor authors a chapter in Cambridge volume.
RCAH associate professor authors article on modernism in MFS Modern Fiction Studies.
The call is open for 2024-2025 fellowship applications for graduate students to work in MSU's Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, a vibrant liberal arts college within a large research university.
RCAH Communications Intern Jess Watley shares her experiences from Nacientes Palmichal in Costa Rica
RCAH senior Maren Case’s music group finds purpose and victory in efforts since the February 2023 tragedy at MSU
The Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing Inclusion through Research Award highlights MSU students who demonstrate through research and analysis, King’s legacy.
RCAH associate professor co-edits book that highlights South African border policies.
RCAH professor co-authors book used by researchers globally.
RCAH assistant professor is the first at MSU to receive funding from the Botstiber Institute.
RCAH Freshman Jess Watley shares helpful advice from RCAH seniors about having difficult conversations with families during this holiday season.
RCAH searches for an environmentally engaged artist.
"MSU offered a home to me and a catalyst for my growth that I couldn’t find anywhere else," Maren Case writes in a recent article featured on MSU Today, "and when I was invited to RCAH shortly thereafter, I knew I was meant to stay here."
Glenn Chambers has been named to succeed Dylan Miner as the new interim dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.
MSU ceremonies in Costa Rica this spring broke ground on two projects that will improve lives half a world away while providing Spartan students with real, life-changing opportunities.
A Faculty Voice piece with senior academic specialist and director of the Program on Sustainability in Costa Rica, Vincent Delgado.
Three RCAH students have been awarded the 2023 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) first-place grand prize.
RCAH Professor Estrella Torrez was featured in MSUToday with a Faculty Voice first-person account of her work with Latinx and Indigenous youth and families in the Lansing School District.
Several RCAH students will present at the 25th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum on Friday, April 14, 2023.
Associate Professor Tama Hamilton-Wray is being honored at a reception this evening from 5 to 7 p.m. by the MSU Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association (BFSAA) with its seventh annual Historical and Emerging Leaders Award.
MSU has launched a new living-learning undergraduate community in Snyder-Phillips Hall, available to current and incoming students in arts-related majors in the College of Arts & Letters (CAL) or Residential College in the arts and Humanities (RCAH).
RCAH junior Maren Case looks back at her time at Michigan State and her memories with Beaumont Tower in the wake of February 13, 2023.
"As a resilient and creative residential college that 'lives our learning' each and every day, we in RCAH will continue to do what we do best: mobilize the arts and humanities to build community, achieve social justice, and individually and collectively heal in times of crisis," says RCAH's Dean Dylan Miner in his first message following the February 13 events on MSU's campus.
Marsha MacDowell is receiving MSU’s Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D.E.I) Lifetime Achievement Award, with her husband Kurt Dewhurst in celebration of their collaborative work and research.
Multimedia artist Solomon Johnson is displaying his work in the Lookout Gallery for Emerging Visions, an annual paid residency in RCAH for artists whose work reflects on Black, African-American, or African diasporic experiences and explores art as social activism.
Professor Estrella Torrez has been awarded with the MSU 2023 Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Creative Activity for her work with the Lansing School District supporting Lansing’s local Latinx and Indigenous communities
RCAH Dean Dylan Miner reflects on Rev. Martin Luther King Day
Alyssa Briones has been hired as Executive Staff Assistant to the Dean in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University (MSU).
RCAH senior Aaliyah Buell ’23 is now the project director for Grit, Glam, & Guts as well as director of RCAH’s Community Wellbeing Series following the departure of her mentor, Dr. Kevin Brooks, RCAH's former Academic Specialist for Diversity and Civic Engagement.
A new exhibition in the LookOut Gallery displays ofrendas made by community members to honor Día de Los Muertos.
RCAH alumna Cami Hancock becomes the dramaturg for the New York City Center's production of Parade
RCAH faculty members Estrella Torrez and Guillermo Delgado host a workshop on the construction of community ofrendas.
Dean Dylan Miner takes on role as Juror for Grand Rapids ArtPrize, an 18-day-long international art competition in that takes place from September 15 to October 3.
RCAH Dean Dylan Miner weighs in on the news swirling about campus.
RCAH faculty and students remark on RCAH's unique learning community, which along with others at MSU has been ranked first among public universities and fourth overall in the nation for the fourth consecutive year.
Message from the Deans Council to the MSU Board of Trustees and Other Members of the MSU Community
In less than 3 minutes, learn how RCAH—one of MSU’s nationally-ranked residential learning communities—combines the best of smaller, personalized majors with all the opportunities of a Big Ten university. Then schedule your visit today!
Dean Dylan Miner welcomes everyone back to campus for the Fall 2022 semester.
RCAH student Alex Reeves spent part of the summer in Paris interning at an art gallery near the Eiffel Tower.
Read about RCAH's very own Eric Aronoff's published article.
As the new Director of Student Success and Advising, Marissa king will be responsible for guiding students through their academic schedules, personal goals, and undergraduate success.
Dylan Miner has been appointed dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH). A founding professor of RCAH, Miner is an artist, activist, and published scholar.
We in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University affirm that reproductive health care is a basic human right.
RCAH Associate Professor Tama Hamilton-Wray has been in residence at the Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, New York since May 2, engaging in workshops and table reads of excerpts from her latest WIP.
Terese Monberg, RCAH Founding Faculty Member, Named Associate Dean of the College
RCAH congratulates five UURAF award winners within the college.
Applications for Costa Rica have been extended through this Thursday, March 31!
MSU has again been named a top producer of Fulbright Scholars with RCAH as one of only six MSU colleges in which faculty received Fulbrights during 2021-2022
Thanks to 77 individual donors, RCAH enjoyed its best Give Green Day ever for the Enhanced Student Opportunity Fund
The Michigan Traditional Arts Program of Michigan State University announces the 2022 Michigan Heritage Awards honorees in the annual statewide program recognizing artists, practitioners, and community organizers working in the folk and traditional arts and everyday culture in Michigan
Stephen Esquith is the first recipient of the MSU Institutional Champion Award for Community Engagement Scholarship
RCAH student Aaliyah Buell receives second place in the Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing Inclusion through Research Award
Michigan Radio's Stateside features RCAH's own John Aerni-Flessner about his work with RCAH students on Malcolm X's life in Lansing.
Details about RCAH's day-to-day hours for the month of January.
Interim Dean Dylan Miner welcomes the 14th and 15th incoming class back to campus.
Since 1985, the MSU Museum’s Michigan Traditional Arts Program has, through its Michigan Heritage Awards, honored the achievements and dedication of Michigan’s traditional artists and traditional arts advocates
First Generation college students share their experiences with navigating higher education
Michigan State University’s three residential colleges, James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, are hosting a day-long teach-in “Imagining a Post-Covid World: 3R Teach-In for Racial Justice and Equity” on Wednesday, November 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the MSU Union.
Iliana Cosme-Brooks ‘22 receives the 2021 CREATE! Micro-Grant for her textile project “Synonyms for, Symptoms of, Suffocation, Solitude.”
The Broad Art Museum’s current exhibition is "Free Your Mind: Art and Incarceration in Michigan."
RCAH Alum Leila Chatti ’11 has won the 24th annual Levis Reading Prize for her poetry book 'Deluge'
MSU has been ranked fourth in the nation for residential learning communities like RCAH, positioned just behind Yale University.
The Michigan Traditional Arts Program of MSU will award honorees in its annual program celebrating cultural heritage in Michigan
RCAH Student Berkley Sorrells won the 2021 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) grand prize for her project Stitched Together: Documenting the Vibrancy of Black Bottom Detroit Through Redwork Quilting
Interim Dean Dylan Miner welcomes the 14th and 15th incoming class back to campus.
RCAH poetry professor and director for the Center for Poetry Lauren Russell reflects on her first year in the College.
Students and staff are required to be vaccinated, and masks will be required indoors for at least the first few weeks of the fall semester.
Stephen Esquith reflects on his experience as Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities in his final Dean's Message
Recent RCAH grad Isabel Hershey received the 2021 MSUFCU RCAH Dean’s Choice Award
Stephen L. Esquith has announced his decision to transition from dean back to the RCAH faculty.
RCAH alumni Grace Koepele ’20 and Emily Van Dyke-Mathews ’20 received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship
RCAH professor John Aerni-Flessner received a Fulbright grant for his research of the borderlands between Lesotho and South Africa.
We continue to process the relentless racial violence that the pandemic has thrown into sharper relief, cautiously encouraged by the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Once again, we find ourselves on the razor's edge, unsure of what will follow but strengthened in our commitment to do the right thing.
Sophia Jozwiak '21 will be performing songs from her debut EP Quarter Life Crisis as a part of her senior thesis that she has worked on with RCAH Professor Chris Scales.
The RCAH Center for Poetry in the Residential College in the Arts in Humanities at Michigan State University hosted RCAH-Verse, a virtual presentation of RCAH’s own talented poet alumni.
RCAH's small, tight-knit community is enriched by family connections, including a large number of siblings.
RCAH and Honors College alumna Kat Stuehrk '14 is an artist whose medium happens to be baked goods. Read about how she combines her love of baking with her passion for social work.
As a college committed to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, RCAH denounces in the strongest terms such acts of brutality that target minoritized groups and women.
Four MSU students, two of them RCAH students, have received Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing Inclusion through Research Awards for research projects focusing on topics related to diversity and marginalized populations.
In an MSU Today Faculty Voice, Russell writes, "When she says, 'there is always light,/ if only we're brave enough to see it/ If only we’re brave enough to be it,' the poet offers an invitation the audience can accept or not."
Two RCAH students win Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing Inclusion through Research Awards.
Dean Esquith discusses recent events and the importance of memory, place, and Fall 2020.
Dean Esquith’s statement on the events of January 6, 2021.
Congratulations to our RCAH December 2020 graduates!
RCAH students Maggie Lupton '23 and Vanessa Thompson '23 won a contest that now has their art on display at East Lansing's Broad Art Lab.
Timely advice for maneuvering tricky conversations during the holidays from Pam Newsted, Niki Rudolph, student Lia Bommarito, and CAPS counselor Victor Leon.
John Duley—longtime activist, friend of RCAH, and Justin Morrill College professor emeritus—has celebrated his 100th birthday with a pair of podcasts.
Despite going entirely remote, RCAH’s popular LMC and Art Studio continue to serve as creative spaces where students can find help and community.
Celebrating the six RCAH faculty members who recently received promotions.
Stephen Esquith and Weloré Tamboura examine the recent coup in Mali and how MSU's efforts have helped build peace.
"By now you've heard that MSU is moving almost all of its undergraduate classes online, including RCAH classes. This is being done for the safety and well-being of all of us. It is the right thing to do."
Dean Esquith discusses plans that are being developed for returning in Fall 2020.
What Is To Be Done? A letter from Dean Stephen Esquith to the RCAH Community
The RCAH Sister Circle was founded to provide mentoring and a supportive community to students of color. Here we conduct an interview with the directors of the program, Professors Tama Hamilton-Wray and Sitara Thobani.
Through her work with the summer program Grit, Glam, and Guts, rising junior Kianna Delly has been presented with the MSUFCU RCAH Dean’s Choice Award.
Lauren Russell joins RCAH in fall of 2020 as an incoming professor and Director of the Center for Poetry
Author Lauren Russell will be joining RCAH in the Fall of 2020 as an assistant professor and Director of the Center for Poetry
"Protecting Yourself from Coronavirus," a video collaboration by three groups at Michigan State University, has been featured on the global Coronavirus Resource Center website spearheaded by Johns Hopkins University.
Instead of "fighting a war," Dean Esquith says, we should be building a society to which all who contribute are equally valued.
Land-grant institutions must prepare students to be global collaborative learners and visionary change-makers. RCAH at MSU is leading this change.
Video was created by SAWBO in partnership with MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Recent RCAH graduate Arzelia Williams was the first prize winner, while RCAH senior Fallyn Richmond was awarded third prize.
Welore Tamboura, the first full-time visiting professor in RCAH at MSU, embraces the notion of giving back where her positive influence will make an impact.
RCAH Professor Estrella Torrez has been cited as an Inspirational Woman of the Year for her leadership in the area of community engagement.
RCAH's Vincent Delgado has received the Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad from MSU International Studies and Programs.
Professor Tama Hamilton-Wray and Jeff Wray of Film Studies Debut New Short Film in Los Angeles.
RCAH Professor John Aerni-Flessner has been honored with a prestigious faculty award.
RCAH Dean Stephen Esquith has been honored with the prestigious Beal Outstanding Faculty Award.
RCAH sophomore Ellie Morgan breaks the boundaries of the visual arts in Guillermo Delgado's "Yoga and Art" course.
What does "the common good" mean for RCAH and how is it connected to DEI?
Kirk Mason '14 appears in the current Spartan alumni magazine.
New RCAH LookOut Gallery Exhibit opening January 16, 2020.
Every Wednesday, RCAH students and Professor Guillermo Delgado lead incarcerated men in a yoga class— “somewhere positive,” as an incarcerated student calls it.
RCAH's Cami Hancock is on the media list for Wharton Center shows, and she's blogging about it for us. Read her take on Broadway Shows and more.
How do you deal with going home for the holidays when your hometown no longer feels as homey? Communications intern Chrystel Lopez '22 interviews MSU psychologist Dr. Olivia Scott for advice on handling the holiday season.
When you crave a cup of coffee during finals, where should you go? Communications Intern Amelia Herron '20 gives her top local picks for good coffee.
RCAH Annual Fall Open House was a success, with students in RCAH 111, RCAH's CLAC Program, and other RCAH courses presenting creative work throughout the evening.
New professor, Laura MacDonald, becomes apart of the RCAH family by providing students with theatre experience.
Follow as RCAH senior Amelia Herron takes over MSU Admissions’ Instagram story on Friday, November 15.
Chrystel Lopez, 19, wins first place in the Mosaic Mobile Film Competition.
In time for Halloween, RCAH students share their perspective on cultural appropriation, and how to combat it.
RCAH's Steve Baibak, Tessa Paneth-Pollak, Pia Banzhaf, and Carolyn Loeb all played a role in the 100th anniversary celebration of the Bauhaus movement on MSU's campus October 14-19, 2019.
Arzelia Williams, a student in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and James Madison College at Michigan State University, has been selected as a Forbes Under 30 Scholar.
Make freshman year a little bit easier with these tips on surviving your first year of college.
The climate strike, organized by Sunrise Lansing, brought together people from all walks of life, including several RCAH students Lansing was one of many cities across the globe that participated in a day of climate strikes, led by climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Instead of fearing what’s to come, as if every day were Friday the 13th or, alternatively, hoping that year 13 will be our “lucky day,” I suggest we think of RCAH 13 in terms of another image: a saddle. Read why....
RCAH student Arzelia Williams writes about her experiences in the United Arab Emirates for MSU Today
Read about Joanna Bosse, her book, and her subsequent documentary
RCAH graduating senior Charlotte Baykian gives her take on the 'Break the Chain' documentary, co-directed by RCAH alumnus Kirk Mason.
Read about Kirk Mason (RCAH '15) and his award-winning documentary 'Break the Chain'
The Annie Balocating Prize for Poetry began in 2011 in honor of Annie Balocating (1979-2018), a poet and alumna of the former Residential Option in Arts and Letters (ROIAL) program at Michigan State University.
Applicants are sought for Perspectives on African-American Experience: Emerging Visions. Read more.