2022-05-24
- A team of faculty and staff from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is advancing an idea to improve e-textbooks in linguistics through a new program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
2022-05-23 - Eight students from the College of LAS graduated with the Class of 2022 as Lincoln Scholars this spring, including Sebastian Frank, an economics and Spanish major.
2022-05-17 - It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the unexpected loss of Dara Goldman, professor of Spanish and director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society.
2022-05-10 - Graduating from U of I with three degrees, Grace Maloney had a lot of options. She decided against going to medical school for a couple of years, packed her bags, and flew to Spain to serve a year as a teaching assistant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
2022-05-05 - SLCL students Caleb Apperson and Dahlia Davis have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships to study foreign languages this summer.
2022-04-29 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is proud to announce the 2021-22 winner of the Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award: Robb Larson from Student Services.
2022-04-28 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations.
2022-04-20 - “Rare Stuff,” the debut novel of Brett Ashley Kaplan, tells the story of a daughter’s search for answers about her mother’s disappearance, as well as a magical realism tale of Yiddish-speaking whales trying to save the planet.
2022-04-15 - What is intercultural competence? That’s a question Darla Deardorff, executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, has been exploring for the past decade.
2022-04-13 - It’s been a year filled with recognition for Florencia Henshaw, director of advanced Spanish and interim co-director of the Foreign Language Teacher Education (FLTE) program.
2022-04-12 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics is proud to present the 2022 SLCL Diversity Awards.
2022-04-05 - Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers are developing resources for studying the Deseret Alphabet, which was created by the Mormons and used briefly in the 19th century.
2022-04-05 - A typical day for Matthew Doppelt (BA, ’11, economics) is hard to come by as assistant director for international scouting for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2022-04-01 - High school is a time for learning, making friends, and discovering passions and hobbies, but for many students, it’s overshadowed by something no teenager should have to worry about: gun violence in their hallways and in their community.
2022-03-30 - To most of us, the idea of testing brings to mind bright lights, biting pencils, filling ovals, and (hopefully) the sweet relief of proving that you know the material. Xun Yan, a professor of linguistics at U of I, however, wants to know more about testing and what it tells us about test-takers.