Matt Grossmann, Suzanne Evans Wagner and Betsy Sneller

On this edition of City Pulse On the Air, editor and publisher
Berl Schwartz hosts his weekly conversation with MSU political
scientist Matt Grossmann about the 2020 presidential campaign.


Reporter Cole Tunningley talks with MSU linguistics professors
Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Evans Wagner about their research at
the MSU Sociolinguistics Lab. When the COVID-19 outbreak began,
Wagner and Sneller designed a study relevant for the days of
lockdown and isolation. Their project, Michigan COVID Diaries,
has asked participants to talk about their daily lives. Sneller
and Wagner are amassing these interviews so they can study how
people’s language changed over the course of the pandemic.