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Apr 30, 2025

MALS Winter Social 2025: A Night of Insight and Connection

Student Panel Highlights Five students from the MALS program shared their insights about their experiences, including their areas of concentration and details about their theses: Alumna Speaker Lani St. Hill, a May 2024 MALS graduate in Climate Justice, presented her project, Everyday Environmentalism: Fostering Climate Justice in Higher Education, emphasizing sustainability efforts in academia.

Apr 30, 2025

Athletics Meets Interdisciplinary: MALS Student-Athletes at NC State

Balancing athletics and academics is a challenge that many student-athletes face, but at NC State, those enrolled in the MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) program are rising to the occasion. The MALS program provides the flexibility to explore a wide range of academic interests, allowing student-athletes to build an interdisciplinary curriculum that complements…

Apr 15, 2025

Explore Big Questions in the upcoming MALS Fall 2025 Seminars

MALS seminars are small, interdisciplinary courses designed to challenge assumptions and deepen understanding across a wide range of topics. Open to students in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, each seminar brings together diverse perspectives in an intimate, discussion-based setting. Here’s what’s coming up this fall: MLS 501-001:🧠 Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications…

Apr 15, 2025

MALS Faculty Spotlight: Dr. David Rieder

Dr. David Rieder brings a rich interdisciplinary background to the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program, blending literature, philosophy, rhetoric, and digital media into his teaching and research. Originally from Long Island, NY, Dr. Rieder completed his undergraduate studies in Literature and Creative Writing at SUNY Purchase before earning both his MA and…

Apr 15, 2025

Alumni Spotlight: Lani St. Hill – Championing Climate Justice Through Communication

Lani St. Hill has dedicated over a decade to sustainability and communications at NC State University. As the Communications and Engagement Coordinator for NC State’s Sustainability Office, she has played a pivotal role in shaping the university’s climate action narrative. In 2024, she added another achievement to her resume: earning a Master of Arts in…

Sep 18, 2024

Fielding Success

MALS student Caden Noonkester’s unlikely rise as NC State’s starting punter is as surprising to him as it is to anyone. 

May 20, 2024

Alumni Spotlight: MALS Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Researchers

Emerald Vaught: Navigating Academic Trajectories and Advocacy Initially drawn to MALS for its potential to enhance her competitiveness for a future doctorate, Emerald Vaught found herself immersed in a world of intellectual exploration and academic growth. Her concentration, “Social Identity and Inequality,” laid the foundation for her culminating project—a Master’s thesis delving into feminist histories…

May 13, 2024

Fall 2024 Seminar Preview

MLS 501-001: Success and Its Discontents Dr. Michael Garval In our modern, ostensibly egalitarian, meritocratic societies, “success” seems the measure of all things.  But from the outset there have been doubts, questions, matters of discontent.  How does or doesn’t the pursuit of success align with goals and ideals like wealth, power, fame, happiness, love, or justice?  And in…

May 13, 2024

MALS Alumni Present at the AGLSP Conference

Three alumni of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program gave an impressive performance at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP). The conference, which took place in San Diego, California, was themed “WONDERlust: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Awe” and was filled with excitement. These alumni shared their…

May 13, 2024

MALS Student Achievements

Conner Tomlinson Harmonizing Art, Communication, and Academia Conner Tomlinson’s academic journey exemplifies the fusion of passion and scholarly inquiry within the MALS program at NC State University. As a third-generation State student, Tomlinson’s roots in North Carolina laid the foundation for his academic pursuits, which seamlessly blend his love for music production with a deep…