Mangala Sadasivan is an associate professor in Medical Education at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM) and adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry. She holds a PhD in Speech Language Pathology focused on neuropathology from MSU.
Jon Keune focuses on religion, social history and transnational flows between South Asia and East Asia.
Keune’s earlier research observed the development of popular, devotional (bhakti) Hindu traditions,
Catalina Bartlett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), a Faculty Fellow and Core Faculty member in the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen),
Dr. Megan K. Halpern is an assistant professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches science communication and science & technology studies at Lyman Briggs College. She is also the inaugural scholar-in-residence at MSU’s Center for Interdisciplinarity.

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Accessibility for Teaching and Learning in Language Instruction and Beyond
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AAN Spring Symposium: Imagining the Future of the University and Academic Work
Date: April 19, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom Webinar
The Academic Advancement Network (AAN) hosts a symposium each spring on a topic of importance for higher education in general and MSU in particular.
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Accessible Course Design: Instruction for All through Universal Design for Learning
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Jennifer “Jeno” Rivera began her tenure at MSU in the CANR Department of Community, Agriculture, and Recreation Studies researching best practices for agriculture, food, and natural resources secondary teacher preparation.
Senta Goertler, Ph.D. (University of Arizona) is an Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and German. She currently serves as the Director of Basic Languages in the German Program, where she oversees first- and second-year language instruction and the Graduate Teaching Assistants.
Dr. Yadu Pokhrel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He obtained PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He conducted postdoctoral research first at Hokkaido University,