The Department of Germanic Studies has been awarded a grant from the Provost and the University Library to transform their German curriculum using Open Education Resources. This will help make language study more…
Meloddye Carpio Ríos, PhD candidate in Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, has received the Tumi Award. This recognition is given by the Peruvian community in recognition of outstanding students of Peruvian descent in…
The Italian program recently hosted an event entitled “From Book to Sound: Italian Singer-Songwriters and their Literary Heritage” that was both a lecture by Professor Francesco Ciabattoni of Georgetown University and a live…
The Department of French and Francophone Studies is pleased to announce that two of its 2019 M.A. graduates have been accepted into Ph.D. programs for Fall 2019.
Seduction: The Art of Persuasion in the Medieval World We are pleased to announce the 2014 annual conference of the Illinois Medieval Association, co-sponsored by the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). The conference will…
Michelle Reyes and Helga Kauf-Berman were honored at the 17th annual LAS Recognition Dinner. Ms. Reyes, a Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies,received an award for her research scholarship and her benefactor, Helga Kauf-Berman,…
Kara Morgan-Short’s Campus Research Board proposal “Memory-based individual differences in late-learned second language: Accounting for development in proficiency and neurocognitive processing” was funded for $20,000. Morgan-Short is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and…
Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program, discusses heritage language teaching and her Fulbright research at the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico. Read the…
Gabriela Reno was one of four LAS undergraduate students to receive Gilman Scholarships for summer 2012. Read her story in the Winter 2012 edition of AtLAS. (Scroll down for Ms. Reno’s profile and…
