Four students are pursuing new opportunities this academic year, with the help of the Frances E. Smith Scheidel Scholarship.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

When it comes to understanding language acquisition, there are few scholars as renowned as Silvina Montrul.