2024-12-09
- Four students are pursuing new opportunities this academic year, with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.
These awards are given to undergraduate students majoring in one of the school’s academic units who have overcome significant hurdles to...
2024-12-09 - Countless studies have been done on the importance of a quality education—but not everyone has the same access to those key learning spaces. Pamela Cappas-Toro (PhD, ’13, Spanish) is part of a team that’s trying to change that through the Utah Prison Education Project. “Education is a human right,” said Cappas-Toro. “Everybody should have access to...
2024-11-21 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics will be bringing an expert on intercultural communication to campus this spring as part of the Intercultural Competence Initiative. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas from Indiana University Bloomington will give a talk titled, “Cultivating Intercultural...
2024-11-04 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced that Jon Solomon, a professor of classics and the Robert D. Novak Chair of Western Civilization & Culture, will give the 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 4.
2024-10-31 - A newly minted PhD classics scholar has been selected to be part of the College of LAS Public Humanities Fellow program, which gives post-doctoral researchers the opportunity to pursue a public engagement project with the Humanities Research Institute.
2024-10-21 - Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech Accessibility Project. Speech recordings used in the study are freely available to organizations looking to improve their voice recognition devices.
2024-10-04 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed twenty new faculty members this fall.
2024-09-30 - When it comes to understanding language acquisition, there are few scholars as renowned as Silvina Montrul.
2024-09-27 - How do you decide which book deserves to be named the best work of French literature of the year? That’s the question students from the Department of French & Italian asked themselves this spring as they participated in FR 322: Movements and Perspectives, which centered on the 2024 US Goncourt Prize Selection.
2024-09-25 - Your first and last name are some of the first things you learn as a child, when you’re only just beginning the long journey to find your place in the world. They’re also arguably the most important. That was the key message George Reveliotis (BA, ’96, history) wanted to share when he walked into Foellinger Auditorium this May as the speaker for the SLCL Spring 2024 Convocation.
2024-09-25 - This spring, our school suffered a great loss: Luisa Elena Delgado, professor of Spanish and former director of the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, passed away after a long battle with cancer.
2024-09-23 - Experts at Illinois are developing a training program for interpreters, following a state law that requires qualified interpreters to be present when teachers and parents meet to discuss individualized education programs (IEPs) for students with special educational needs.
2024-09-23 - A new Korean studies scholar has joined the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures this fall, thanks in part to the support of a group of alumni.
2024-09-20 - Professor of classics Clara Bosak-Schroeder’s first book, “Other Natures: Environmental Encounters With Ancient Greek Ethnography,” (UC Press 2020), explored how ancient Greek authors cast humans and nonhumans in complex, inter-dependent relationships. Her latest work blends creative nonfiction and scholarship to examine ancient monuments....
2024-09-20 - Two faculty members from SLCL have received Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement, and Education (BRIDGE) Seed Fund Grants for the 2024-2025 academic year.