Caroline Attokaran, President of the Italian Club at UIC, has been honored with the UIC Chancellor’s Student Service Award. This prestigious recognition highlights Caroline’s exceptional commitment to service, leadership, and engagement within both…
Congratulations to Dr. Angéla Betancourt-Ciprian for receiving an award for the Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program! With this award, she will begin developing materials for implementation in Spanish 113 (first-semester of our heritage Spanish language…
Alexis Berles, PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics, was awarded a Graduate College Award for Graduate Research! The award will support her dissertation research, which examines the role of learning context and cognitive control…
Professor Margarita Saona is presenting at the Lit & Luz festival in Mexico. She will give a talk on her book ‘De monstruos y cyborgs’ and then will participate in the 2026 Lit &…
Jess Ward, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics, was awarded a 3-month fellowship through the Collaborative Research Centre in Potsdam, Germany! She will be running a linguistics experiment (on resumptive elements in relative clauses)…
The Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies is excited to wish congratulations to Dr. Megan Tzeitel Marshall, who successfully defended her dissertation “Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom…
The Italian Program and Prof. Chiara Fabbian were awarded a contribution ($15,925.35) by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support the teaching of Italian language and culture at UIC. This award recognizes the…
Prof. Kim Potowski was quoted about semantic extensions and other phenomena in U.S. Spanish in the The Economist‘s Feb. 6 article “America May be Reaching Peak Spanish” that is also featured in La…
Chiara Fabbian has been awarded a 2025–2026 Innovative Online Course Design (IOCD) Award for the design of her course ITAL 270: Migration, Society, and Identity in the Italian and Italian American Experience! Congratulations, Prof.…
