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Jess Ward Wins Award for Graduate Research

Jess Ward (PhD Student, Hispanic Linguistics) was awarded a Graduate College Award for Graduate Research! The award will help fund her dissertation research on heritage Spanish speakers’ acquisition of Portuguese as a third…

Dianna Niebylski Receives Graduate Mentoring Award!

Dr. Dianna Niebylski was awarded a Graduate Mentoring Award from the UIC Graduate College! This is a competitive award for which faculty must be nominated by students. Congratulations, Professor Niebylski!

Chiara Fabbian Receives LAS Faculty Service Award

Professor Chiara Fabbian (Director of the Italian Program & Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian) was awarded the 2025 LAS Faculty Service Award! The LAS Faculty Service award recognizes exceptional service to the…

Inma Taboada Publishes New Book and Speaks at Harvard

Congratulations to Dr. Inma Taboada (Hispanic and Italian Studies) for the publication of her new co-authored book Manual para la formación de profesores de español (Manual for the training of Spanish teachers) published…

Claudia Fernández Awarded Distinguished Practitioner’s Award

Professor Claudia Fernández (Hispanic and Italian Studies, Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program) has been awarded the Distinguished Practitioner’s Award by the International Association of Task-based Language Teaching. Professor Fernández’s work with task-based…

Chiara Fabbian Featured in Stories atLAS

Professor Chiara Fabbian, Director of the Italian Basic Language Program, has been featured by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences! Professor Fabbian was interviewed for the “Stories atLAS” series. Could you discuss…

Hispanic Studies Faculty and Student on WBEZ Chicago

Professor Margarita Saona (Hispanic Studies) and undergraduate student Alica Morel (UIC ’25) were recently featured on WBEZ Chicago discussing the importance of language classes and experiences in the Hispanic Studies program. “I wanted…