Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg was awarded an Undergraduate Mentoring Award for Graduate Students. This new award recognizes the invaluable time, effort, expertise, and concern that UIC Graduate Students dedicate to mentoring undergraduate students in classroom,…
Professors Kara Morgan-Short and Inma Taboada of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and Elizabeth Dolly Weber of the Department of French and Francophone Studies are among the recipients of the 2012-2013…
Congratulations to the following Spanish majors and minors, who received $19,250 in grants and scholarships for study abroad: Rhiannon Muncaster, double major in Spanish and German; minor in Russian Amanda Gillis, Spanish minor…
Kay González-Vilbazo, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, received a $7000 grant from the UIC Office of Social Science Research for the project “Psycholinguistic Evidence of Bilingual Mode in Online Processing.”
Kara Morgan-Short’s Campus Research Board proposal “Memory-based individual differences in late-learned second language: Accounting for development in proficiency and neurocognitive processing” was funded for $20,000. Morgan-Short is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics…
Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program, discusses heritage language teaching and her Fulbright research at the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico. Read the…
Gabriela Reno was one of four LAS undergraduate students to receive Gilman Scholarships for summer 2012. Read her story in the Winter 2012 edition of AtLAS. (Scroll down for Ms. Reno’s profile and…
On November 8, 2012, Margarita Saona, Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature and Interim Head of Hispanic and Italian Studies, presented her new book of micro-fiction, Objeto perdido, in Lima, Perú. Dr. Susana Reisz…
Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, will deliver the keynote address at the 36th Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers Serving Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students. She will be speaking on “U.S. Spanish:…
On Thursday, Sept. 27, St. Olaf hosted Dr. Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Potowski’s talk, titled “When ‘Foreign’ Languages Aren’t Foreign: The Value of…