2020-12-09
- The LAS Awards Committee selected our own Melanie Waters for the prestigious and highly competitive LAS Academic Professional Award. This award honors selected academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to the college.
In her capacity first as Assistant Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program...
2020-12-01 - We are proud of our alumna Dr. Robin Ragan who has been nationally recognized with ACTFL's Global Engagement Initiative Award. As you can see in this video, the award is a tribute to Dr. Ragan's creation of a...- 2020-10-20 - A stellar Spanish major, Sophie Isolde Luijten, receives a prestigious Illinois International Undergraduate Achievement Award. This award recognizes an Illinois undergraduate student (U.S. citizen or international) for a significant service or contribution resulting from their participation in an international study course, program, or...
2020-10-01 - Jacopo Demarinis, one of our Spanish minors and an intern for Immigration Services of Champaign-Urbana (ISCU) during the spring 2020 semester, received the Student Leadership Award, one of the C-U Immigration Forum Welcome Awards, at their awards ceremony and celebration held on Sept. 19. Jacopo was nominated based on his work in SPAN 232 “Spanish in the Community” during the spring 2020...
2020-10-01 - One of our Spanish minors and a Latinx student, junior Alexis Perezchica is now serving as President for the Illinois Student Government. Her inspiring story was featured in Journeys, an Office of Communications collection of stories geared toward sharing the Illinois experience with prospective students. You can read it here: ...
2020-08-30 - This year's Spanish and Portuguese Fall Reception was a resounding success, and quite safe, as it was held via Zoom. Dr. Mariselle Meléndez and Dr. Melissa Bowles emceed an array of fun activities, and the new faculty and graduate students had an opportunity to introduce themselves. Although we miss seeing each other in person, everyone had a great time!!!! ...
2020-08-04 - Mark your calendar!!! An event not to miss, tailored to our Spanish and Portuguese graduate students! This workshop is geared towards students who will be on the job market this year or are interested in learning more about the hiring process. This introduction to the market will cover a range of topics including: where to look for jobs, different types of institutions, how to...- 2020-07-14 - Our amazing Spanish undergraduate advisor, Tasha Robles , has been elected to the Council of Academic Professionals (CAP). The Council of Academic Professionals is an elected assembly serving the interests of full-time, part-time, and retired academic professionals at the University of Illinois. They also provide direct and consistent communication between...
- 2020-07-12 - The 51st meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place April 29-May 1, 2021. Mark your calendars and join in!!!! For more details you can visit the official Symposium webpage here.
2020-06-27 - Professor Jill Jegerski has been awarded the Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar award beginning in AY 2020-2021 and continuing through 2024-2025. The Conrad awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty members in LAS who are established or emerging leaders with an exceptionally strong scholarly profile and significant promise...
2020-06-27 - Professor Silvina Montrul has published yet another book, adding to a lengthy list of top-notch publications. Dr. Montrul's most recent book, Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, was co-edited with Dr. Alexandru Mardale and has been published with the prestigious John Benjamins Press, a leading publisher for Lingustics. The volume...
2020-06-12 - Several of our amazing recent graduates and current students in Spanish and Portuguese have received highly prestigious awards Three of our students received Fulbright Awards: Alicia Barbas: In May, Alicia earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish, global studies and French. She will pursue a master’s degree in European and...
2020-05-19 - Two of our PhD students, Ane Icardo Isasa and Teresa Greppi, have been recognized by the Illinois News Bureau for their campus-level teaching awards this year. You can read about them here. Great job Ane and Teresa!
2020-05-18 - We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Eider Etxebarria-Zuluaga (Spanish Linguistics) has been awarded the prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (DDRI) for her Dissertation Research: “Subject Expression in Spanish in Contact with Basque and in Spanish-Basque Bilingualism.” Eider is working under the direction of...
2020-05-18 - These YouTube Videos will give you a sense for the University of Illinois and the Champaign-Urbana micro-urban region. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/Qj9BiGkktsk.jpg?itok=jSbNfeA4","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=Qj9BiGkktsk&...