Alexis Berles was awarded the Duolingo Research Grant to support her dissertation work! This is the first time someone from the Cognition of Second Language Acquisition Laboratory has won this award! Congratulations, Alexis!
Professor Margarita Saona (Hispanic Studies) was recently invited to present to the team of cardiologists at the El Cruce Hospital in Buenos Aires. The title of the talk was “Corazón en trance: ¿Cómo…
Congratulations to graduates with a BA in Spanish, a minor in Spanish, a BA in the Teaching of Spanish, or a minor in Italian! Congratulations to graduates with a Master’s in Hispanic Studies:…
Professor Dianna Niebylski (Hispanic Studies) recently spoke at “The Event of the Poem: César Vallejo Between Language, History, Art, and Translation,” a symposium hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago. César Vallejo stands…
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)…
