2021-06-28
- The Global Leaders Program is designed to foster collaboration between international and domestic students to engage the local community.
One thing that makes a college campus so interesting is the new perspectives and attitudes brought by international students. A new Global Leaders Program in the College of LAS is...
2021-06-28 - Alumna Lauren Turk (BA, ‘06, French commercial studies, communication; MA, ‘12, political science,...
2021-06-25 - The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics recently received funding as one of 10 projects as awarded by the University of Illinois System’s...
2021-06-17 - Grace Maloney, a May 2021 graduate with a triple major in molecular and cellular biology, chemistry and Spanish, is among nine UIUC students and recent graduates who have received Fulbright grants. Maloney will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in the city of Vigo in Galicia, Spain. A graduate of St. Charles (Ill.) East High School, at the U of I she was a member of the Campus...
2021-06-17 - Rachel S. Harris, Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture in Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, has published a new book about Israeli cinema in the context of transnationalism....
2021-06-15 - The Department of Religion is receiving $1 million from a group of donors to establish Jainism as a course of study. It’s the largest gift that the department has ever received. "I think students campus wide will respond enthusiastically,” said Jonathan Ebel, Professor and Head of Religion. “There is just so much about Jainism that is fascinating, and it's so much that students want and need to...
2021-06-06 - Verena Höfig, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, was recently interviewed on “Saga Thing,” a podcast hosted by medievalists Andrew Pfrengler, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and John Sexton, Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. Pfrengler and Sexton have been reading and enjoying the Icelandic sagas for years. Their...
2021-06-04 - Rodrigo Delgado, Spanish and Portuguese, is one of five assistant professors from the UIUC campus selected for the 2021-2022 National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity – Faculty Success Program (NCFDD), organized by the Provost Office. The NCFDD Faculty Success Program is an intense, 12-week, online-based program through which participants learn strategies to increase their...
2021-06-01 - Tania Ionin, Professor of Linguistics, has been named a University Scholar in recognition of her excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Professor Ionin is a world-renowned scholar in the fields of Semantics and Second Language Acquisition, as well as an award-winning...
2021-05-21 - Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, recently received the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities, presented by the Sexualities Studies Section. Her article is titled, “Paz’s...
2021-05-21 - The Department of Linguistics recently announced its award recipients for their accomplishments during the 2020-2021 academic year. In the MA in Teaching English as a Second Language category, Alice Houston received the Peter Strevens Award for Academic Excellence, and the Peter Strevens Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Intensive English Institute (IEI). In addition, Jennifer Zhang...
2021-05-19 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently announced its list of named scholars, and there are some familiar names in it, including: John Barnard (Comparative and World Literature): Helen Corley Petit Scholar, for extraordinary achievement by...
2021-05-12 - Carolyn Fornoff, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is among four early career professors who have been recognized as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their outstanding contributions and potential in research and teaching. The LEAP award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational...
2021-05-12 - Carmen Gallegos of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This competitive, campus-level award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project, “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions during and beyond the rubber boom in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil (19th-21st centuries),” which she is writing...
2021-05-05 - Manuel Fernandez, Adriana Guevara, and Johana Machuca of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Riley Masterson of the Department of French and Italian recently received 2021-22 Scheidel Award Scholarships. Fernandez is a sophomore majoring in Astronomy and Spanish. Guevara is a senior majoring in Spanish & Interdisciplinary Health Science. Machuca is a senior majoring in Speech and...