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Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded  a competitive Campus Research Board Award for her book project: Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Culture in the Era of Climate Change. As an additional indicator of the book's relevance and promise, as well as a sign of its special distinction, her...

  Our very own Teresa Greppi has been selected by the Provost's Office as one of only 5 campus wide Teaching Assistant recipients of the 2020 Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Only the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants who have shown a...

  Our own Javier Irigoyen-García has been selected as an inaugural LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar. This highly selective award from the College of LAS is for those faculty members being considered for promotion from Associate to Full...

The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) has awarded Florencia Henshaw their Conference Attendee Travel Stipend award to attend the AATSP 2020 Annual Conference in Puerto Rico. This is a highly selective travel award.  Florencia will be sharing...

Teresa Greppi and Cristina Mostacero Pinilla have been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. This prestigious teaching award recognizes the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants in...

Congratulations to Professors Carolyn Fornoff and Vincent Cervantes for receiving Humanities Release Time Awards for AY 2020-21. Nicely done Carolyn and Vincent!

Two faculty members have been recognized at the National Level by the MLA by winning their elections: Carolyn Fornoff has been elected to serve as MLA Forum Delegate for the Mexican LLC from 2020-2023. Dara Goldman has been re-elected as MLA Forum Delegate for another term representing the...

Prof. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez has been named the recipient of the 2019 LEAP Award (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors).  The competitive LEAP award was created as a way to foster excellence and recognize the impact...

Florencia Henshaw has been named as a recipient of the 2019 LAS Academic Professional Award. The LAS Academic Professional Award honors academic professionals for their outstanding contributions to their home unit, the college, and the campus by advancing the...

Florencia Henshaw has been selected to be one of the six members of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACTFL's publication "The Language Educator."  The Language Educator, is a publication for ACTFL (American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages) that...