This Month's Essays

May 2012 – Spring Spotlight on Students

The Virtual Student Center will lead you to Imagistation, a unique and complex tumblr site constructed by sixteen Honors Seminar students.

In our Guest Essay, a selection of Danceaturgs write about the themed repertory, Dance and the Human Spirit; and Jessie Whelan displays her modern and ballet studio mind-dance photographs.

And we have given over our Director’s Essay space to sophomore dance BFA/anthropology BA double-major Kelly Vaghenas’ award-winning essay on Danthropology.

Announcing: The 2nd Annual CRC Symposium/Real-time Webcast in collaboration with the new MSU School of Communication and Media; the College of Science and Mathematics; and the Research Academy for University Learning. Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 11:00 a.m. live from the DuMont TV Studio: The Scientific Imagination: Where Do Ideas Come From? Special guests - Meiyin Wu, Bill Thomas, Ashwin Vaidya, Jennifer Krumins, and Cigdem Talgar.

Thanks to Earl Harris & Alexandra Thelin for their continuing technical expertise.

The Creative Research Center is now on Facebook.

The Creative Research Center encourages cross-disciplinary critical discourse through virtual and real-time communications.

Our vision for stimulating an expansive cultural dialogue crossing physical boundaries culminated in a live event, Imagination in the Post-9/11 World: How Have We Changed? on October 12, 2011.