2025-03-06
- The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2025–26 academic year.
2025-02-10 - The National Herald, the paper of record for the Greek Diaspora community, recently highlighted the Department of Classics on the front page of their Greek Language Edition.
2025-02-06 - A professor and a graduate teaching assistant from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have been selected as recipients of the 2025 College of LAS teaching and advising awards.
2025-01-28 - A community program called Le Cercle Francophone – meaning the French Speaking Circle – has seen growing success since it was started by Aurore Mroz and Florence Mathieu last fall.
2024-12-19 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis recently gave a keynote lecture at the prestigious Academy of Athens.
2024-12-09 - Four students are pursuing new opportunities this academic year, with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.
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.
2024-12-04 - The University Library is helping professors develop open access textbooks that students can use free of charge through grant funding from the Illinois State Library and the provost’s office.
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.
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.