2026-05-06
- Prof. Salvatore Callesano has been awarded $19,349 in funds from the inaugural Curiosity to Impact Fund (C2I) by the College of LAS, to develop a general education US Minority Cultures course tentatively titled “The Social Lives...
2026-05-06 - Prof. Ann Abbott has been awarded a 2026 SLCL Summer Fellowship for Specialized Faculty, for her project, “Near-Native: An Autoethnographic Book Manuscript about Languages and Cultures.” The fellowship...
2026-05-06 - Dr. Kara Yarrington, Director of Introductory Spanish, has been selected to receive an award in the amount of $225,000 through the IMMERSE Essentials Funding Program for the 2026–2027 academic year. This will fund 750 licenses for...
2026-03-04 - Dr. Kara Yarrington and Dr. Michelle Dutton have been awarded as Equity Champion Instructors by the Office of the Provost for “their dedication, innovative...
2026-02-15 - Graduate student Gerson Morales has been awarded a 2026-2027 Humanities Research Institute Graduate Fellowship for his...
2026-01-12 - Miguel Ángel Galindo (MA, ’91, Spanish; PhD, ’97, Spanish) and Nerea Muguerza (MA, ’98, Spanish), longtime resident directors of the Illinois in Granada program in Granada,...
2025-09-11 - Congratulations to Prof. Eduardo Ledesma on his recent promotion to Full Professor and to Ann Abbott, who is now a Teaching Associate Professor following...
2025-07-04 - Professor Mariselle Mélendez has been named by LAS Dean’s Office a Frances O’Donnell Endowed Faculty Scholar from 2025-2028. As the award letter states, it is “based upon recognition of her outstanding contribution to the...
2025-05-14 - Graduate student Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka has been awarded a Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year for her dissertation project “Acquisition of Spanish Stress by English...
2025-05-14 - Professor Silvina Montrul has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright award to conduct research in Brazil. Congratulations, Silvina!
2025-05-03 - Professor Salvatore Callesano, along with co-Principal Investigators Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics) and Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French and Italian), has received a seed grant for their project Computational Sociolinguistics and the...
2025-05-03 - Congratulations to graduate students Karen Pasetto Olevar and Edwin Rodriguez Muñoz who have been awarded Tinker Field Collaborative Fellowships for...
2025-04-18 - Graduate student Araceli Pantoja has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the SLCL Xiaohui Zhang Diversity & Community Engagement...
2025-04-15 - Graduate student Sara Castro-Cantú has received the LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award. This is a college-wide competitive teaching award and is...
2025-04-15 - Prof. Anna Torres-Cacoullos has been awarded the 2025 Humanities Research Institute faculty research prize for her article “...