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Students Achieve Top Honors at the 2024 Midwest Chinese Speech Contest

祝贺中文课的以下同学在中西部大学生中文演讲比赛中取得优异成绩!Congratulations to the following students who won first, second and third places at the 2024 Midwest Chinese Speech Contest. First year: Craig Rykowski – First Place Third Year: Marlen Saenz-Silva – Second Place;…

Chaia Vanderaa Accepted Into JET Program

Japanese program peer tutor Chaia Vanderaa (English major, Linguistics Minor) has been accepted into the highly competitive Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET)  The JET award will enable Chaia to teach English in…

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Mika Changet Receives 2024 HOPE Award

Mika Changet, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Japanese Program, has been awarded the HOPE (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award. The HOPE Award is nominated by students to recognize faculty who have made a…

Congratulations to Carrie Pichan and Kim Potowski

It is our pleasure to inform that this year, our department has TWO awardees in CATE’s Teaching Recognition Program Award: Carrie Pichan (Linguistics) and Kim Potowski (Hispanic and Italian Studies). Congratulations to both!

Congratulations to Dr. Hanae Kim on New Publication

Dr. Hanae Kim, Lecturer and Korean Program Coordinator, has a new research article appearing in the journal Literacy Research and Instruction. Kang, V. Y., Kim, S., & Kim, H. (2024). First-generation Korean immigrant…

Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio Is Named ACL Fellow of 2023

Congratulations to our affiliated faculty member Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio for being named one of the five 2023 Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).  The citation of the recognition reads: For…