PORT 240 Rapid Portuguese for Romance Language Speakers Portuguese grammar for Romance Language Speakers, with a communicative approach to develop the ability to understand, speak, read and write in intermediate to advanced level…
The Italian program in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies has received a grant of 23,000 euros from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support Italian Studies at UIC for the…
Irene Finestrat, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has been awarded the UIC Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching & Mentoring Award for her outstanding contributions in her teaching and extensive mentoring of undergraduate students.…
Abigail Zurita-Calvario, an Honors College senior majoring in political science and Spanish and minoring in French, was recently awarded a U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for study abroad. This award aims…
Oscar Campo Becerra, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has won the first ever Anne Bonny Prize for Narrative for his work Días hábiles. As a reward for winning this new international literary…
David Abugaber (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics) has been awarded the highly selective William Orr Dingwall Foundation‘s Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Kara Morgan-Short, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology, was interviewed for The Pulse podcast for a story about learning new languages through apps. Read a summary of the segment and listen online.
Liliana Sánchez, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and director of the Bilingualism and Language Contact Lab, and her co-investigator, Elena Koulidobrova, from Central Connecticut State University, have received an National Science Foundation grant for…
Juanita Calvo, a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, has been announced as a Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellow for the upcoming 2020-2021 year. The DFI is awarded by the Illinois…
David Abugaber, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, has been awarded the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. David was chosen from over 200 applicants for this award designed to…
